Post by avalon on Jun 5, 2009 19:19:47 GMT -5
Tyler, Adam, Ashley, Nicole, and Afton(narrating):
We were at Tyler's birthday party and decided to go to the lake, but Jimmy didn't want to come, since he was too scared of the poison ivy..but anyway-We hiked down to the lake, looking forward to crossing our favorite log-bridge along the creek, but recent rains had raised the water level, leaving much of the shore, and the bridge, submerged. Ashley started to remove her shoes, to try and cross by the part that could still be seen just beneath the surface, but at the suggestions of Nicole and I, who didn't want to get wet, she stopped and led the group back the way we came.
As our group backtracked, we found a spot that also seemed to have had a bridge at one point, but if this was so it was long gone, and the ravine was too far to jump. "Fortunately", I found some natural stairs along the roots of the bordering trees. This got us to the creek bed, which at this place was formed of rock slabs and a trickle of surface water. The party was also "lucky" on the count that directly across the way was another path out of the ravine to the other side. Unlike the way we had come in, this path wasn't really stairs, but a gap in the roots of the trees that formed a hole big enough to climb through. The girls went first, eager to discover how the flooding had affected this other side of the wood. We skipped along excitedly, wondering at the large pits that were all over the ground, covered with orange dust and small, plastic balls.
Tyler and Adam, who had so far remained a more passive part of the group's decisions, declared that we should leave. The pits were strange and the wood seemed eerie (and besides all this, it was getting too late in the evening to be traversing all the forest). The girls really didn't pay much attention to them and went on, finding the new paths too interesting to leave so soon.
Ashley, being confident in her knowledge of the woods around her own home, still went first among the group. We passed through a thick line of thorny bushes, but all the group got through well enough, except for Tyler, who had a few cuts on his arm. We found ourselves in....
We were at Tyler's birthday party and decided to go to the lake, but Jimmy didn't want to come, since he was too scared of the poison ivy..but anyway-We hiked down to the lake, looking forward to crossing our favorite log-bridge along the creek, but recent rains had raised the water level, leaving much of the shore, and the bridge, submerged. Ashley started to remove her shoes, to try and cross by the part that could still be seen just beneath the surface, but at the suggestions of Nicole and I, who didn't want to get wet, she stopped and led the group back the way we came.
As our group backtracked, we found a spot that also seemed to have had a bridge at one point, but if this was so it was long gone, and the ravine was too far to jump. "Fortunately", I found some natural stairs along the roots of the bordering trees. This got us to the creek bed, which at this place was formed of rock slabs and a trickle of surface water. The party was also "lucky" on the count that directly across the way was another path out of the ravine to the other side. Unlike the way we had come in, this path wasn't really stairs, but a gap in the roots of the trees that formed a hole big enough to climb through. The girls went first, eager to discover how the flooding had affected this other side of the wood. We skipped along excitedly, wondering at the large pits that were all over the ground, covered with orange dust and small, plastic balls.
Tyler and Adam, who had so far remained a more passive part of the group's decisions, declared that we should leave. The pits were strange and the wood seemed eerie (and besides all this, it was getting too late in the evening to be traversing all the forest). The girls really didn't pay much attention to them and went on, finding the new paths too interesting to leave so soon.
Ashley, being confident in her knowledge of the woods around her own home, still went first among the group. We passed through a thick line of thorny bushes, but all the group got through well enough, except for Tyler, who had a few cuts on his arm. We found ourselves in....