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It's amazing how prescient some people are!Yep!
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It's amazing how prescient some people are!Yep!
He's probably lived through it before on other forums, and has developed this power.It's amazing how prescient some people are!Yep!
It's amazing how prescient some people are!Yep!
Same here!It's amazing how prescient some people are!Yep!
I must admit, I had to look the word up. It may me laugh harder
Of course, where I live now, the biggest threat isn't people but injuring myself on a hike (slipping/falling on steep or wet terrain)
Of course, where I live now, the biggest threat isn't people but injuring myself on a hike (slipping/falling on steep or wet terrain)
^Truth!
I have had WAY more "close calls" when out alone by doing something stupid than by anyone suspicious around me.
I went down to a local refuge area a couple of years ago--this is a spot that during the late fall and winter has thousands of sandhill cranes that winter there, along with a huge variety of ducks.
It was early in the season, but it was the last day you could actually get access to the refuge and walk around--once the sandhills arrive en force, they restrict visitors to just the observation area at the edge of the reserve.
There were some Cranes coming in that day, quite a few of them--as well as some ducks out on the water and a couple of bald eagles. So I started working my way down towards the water. I wanted to reach a particular spot I'd seen that the ducks seemed to favor and that had a good view of some of the cranes as they came flying in. I decided that I could cut across through a small wooded section and it would be much shorter than trying to keep on the little trail I was following. I should KNOW by now that any time my enthusiasm comes up with the idea of leaving a trail, it is probably a BAD plan.
I ended up having to forge a couple of creeks, climb over tree trunks, squeeze through little bitty openings. Finally, at one point, I'm trying to claw my way over and around some fallen tree trunks AND a small creek, and I thought, "If you manage to fall and break your leg here, it will probably be the death of you, you know. They will close the gates tomorrow morning and won't find your cold, dead body until spring."
I did manage to successfully navigate the wooded obstacle course...but I took the much longer, and much safer, trail going back toward the parking lot.
Early in this thread (I can't seem to find the post now), someone made a comment about wearing a whistle on a cord around your neck. If you do this, I'd recommend making sure the cord was some sort of "easy break" cord. Otherwise, you're just giving the bad guy another tool that he can use against you.