And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
1979 hiking Siyeh Pass with Ranger Johnson and circa 30 other hikers down a trail over a talus field everyone heard a loud crack above us and then a bouncing and rolling rock the size of a large pick-up truck descend toward and through the hiking party transfixed in dread, strung out on the switched back trail as the boulder miraculously missed hitting anyone and eventually came to rest hundreds of feet below the party. I still remember that incident as if it happened yesterday. Dan Kurt
Holy crap!!
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ReplyDelete1979 hiking Siyeh Pass with Ranger Johnson and circa 30 other hikers down a trail over a talus field everyone heard a loud crack above us and then a bouncing and rolling rock the size of a large pick-up truck descend toward and through the hiking party transfixed in dread, strung out on the switched back trail as the boulder miraculously missed hitting anyone and eventually came to rest hundreds of feet below the party. I still remember that incident as if it happened yesterday.
ReplyDeleteDan Kurt
When your number is not up, it's not up....
ReplyDeleteThere's skipping rocks and then there is just being an a-hole.
ReplyDeletei'm still safer playing in traffic at 80mph
ReplyDeleteWould have been quick and painless if it hit you right.
ReplyDeleteThere's a right way?
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