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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 2488341" data-attributes="member: 21076">Hhhmmm, probably too many to count....Flat tire in Kansas at 2am while driving from Ohio to Estes Park, Colorado.  We were driving straight through so this wasn't much fun.  Kansas is my least favorite state in the Union...   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> There was a time we took the Cranberry Route off the North Rim in the Grand Canyon.  The Cranberry Route is not a trail, but really and truly a route where you need to use a rope to make it through certain sections of the Redwall in the Canyon.  First day of an 8 day hike, full packs - I fell going down a slope within the first three hours and promptly put my hand into a cactus.  Yuck.  Another guy had some heat issues, couple with being out of shape.  The ravens circled us while we sat baking on top of the Redwall in the afternoon sun while the route was scouted out (that was after we passed a rattlesnake hiding under the boulders we were rockhopping on.  Having found the right route we climbed down and lowered packs.  Due to a miscommunication one of the packs was dropped sixty feet off the cliff - luckily it survived and did not roll off the other cliff!  Heading down an slope that looked beyond the angle of repose a rock was kicked loose (more like a basketball sized boulder) and rolled down the slope picking up speed and hit one of our party members in the leg causing it to swell up pretty good.  Ran out of water at the *start* of the dry lake bed.  Finally after we rolled into the area we were camping after over 12 hours of hiking with full packs we got the tarp up *while* it rained.  That was day one.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Oh and my stories of climbing with "Off Route Eric" could fill several more posts.....  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

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