So here we go with the first of many leap from Bloggers Prompts. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, check out my post about increasing traffic. Anyway, the short version is I am going to announce a prompt of some sort. Then out of all the posts we hopefully get I will pick my favorite one, then that blogger will pick a prompt for next week and then pick their favorite post and so on.
After a lot of thought the prompt I want everyone to write about is this:
Everyone who pushes the limits to get the best experience in the outdoors has had a close call with death or injury. What was your experience, and would you do different if you could do it over again?
I will pick my favorite post on Wednesday and post a comment on here so everyone knows who to look to next Friday and I will post a comment on the winner's post so they know as well. I hope this catches on for everyone's benefit.
Here is my prompt post
I was fishing the Tieton Rirver out of Yakima WA with two friends. We were 18 and not the best at making good decisions. We were camped along the river and I saw a area of river that I wanted to fish. The thing was that it was on the opposite side of the river and there was no obvious way to cross, so being the rocket scientists we were we just crossed at a downstream angle. The fishing wasn't that great over there and it was time to cross back to camp. Because of the lay of the land we could not get up river to angle down river to camp and we couldn't angle down river from where we were. So we just had to fight the current to the other side. My two friends made it to the other side. They were not holding a fishing pole like I was. I started across and didn't quite make it. As I fell still holding on to my pole and getting swept down river I threw my free arm towards the bank and just happened to grab a rope my friends threw for me. They pulled me to the shore and we all laughed about it later that night. All I knew was I wasn't losing that pole. Funny thing was, my parents were not told about that part of the trip when we got home.
If I were in the same situation I would just stay on my bank and fish up and down the river, if I was being swept down stream I would let my $10 pole go to help my chance of getting to safety.
Quite ironic....my story of mass stupidity is scheduled to post up on monday morning. It's so dumb (and a decade old, the story *literally* never told before) that I'm curious how people will take it. My brother or somebody recently dared me to go into detail about it.
ReplyDeleteWill send the link over on monday AM.
sweet thats the stuff I want to see.
ReplyDeleteRory- What a great idea. I've been wanting to tell this story for some time now, but never really had a reason to. Here is the link. http://beng-outdoors.blogspot.com/2011/03/brush-with-other-side.html
ReplyDeleteHere we go - a public hunting debacle (and the debacle part was all my doing!)
ReplyDeletehttp://rivermud.blogspot.com/2011/03/learning-to-hunt-ducks-stupid-way.html
Alright...I'll warn you it's long. But, it's got bears stalking us, waterfalls, dehydration, and naked Swedes.
ReplyDeleteA great idea, Rory...let's see how it goes! http://theriverdamsel.blogspot.com/2011/03/some-like-it-hot-firehole.html
ReplyDeleteok...so now you have two comments, huh? delete!
ReplyDeleteGot another one for you Rory. "The Nine Lives of Your Experienced Guide".
ReplyDeletehttp://mysticfishing.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/the-9-lives-of-your-experienced-guide/
I Don't know if I figured this out or not, but I wrote up my saga at
ReplyDeletehttp://blog.fishcreekspinners.com/2011/03/bullwinkles-mama.html
In any case, it was fun to write it up.
I can't say I've ever done anything hardcore enough to fit into this prompt but I'll be looking out for other ones in the future. Good idea!
ReplyDeleteI just want to thank everyone for posting. I chose Ben G to post a prompt of his choosing Friday. Hope to see you all there
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