Monday, September 03, 2007

Great FALLS

Me and a group of deafies from gally decided to spend the day rock climbing at great falls. Great falls is the place to be. Apparently one of my friends is starting an outdoor club at gally and asked me to come because he knew I loved going there. The trip went well until the end.
No.. there were no bear attacks or crazy people falling off cliffs.
It started pretty much after I decided to pitch in and carry ropes back to the parking lot with everyone else. So as I leave I see one of the guys that is w us leaves so I am like I ll follow him. So I start following him and i notice I am starting to fallll behind. Suddenly tony is gone and I am like what the heck. So I see a hiker go by and I dont have my hearing aids on ( I didnt think I should wear them especially if i am doing serious climbing ). So I explain that I cant hear and I need him to point to the parking lot. The guy points in the direction that I need to be in.. and I am on my way. However when I get there the parking lot looks completely different from the parking lot I was first in. So I think maybe I should head back and go a different way. I end up going in a circle. So I head back to the parking lot and try to see if there might be another one near by. But there isnt one !!!!!!!!
Now I am getting really concerned knowing that my friends might have already started a search and rescue effort ( think baywatch, Rescue 911, Cold cases ). In the mist of all the tourist I happen to see a ranger. I explained my situation and he walks me to a parking lot that is about a mile down the road.
Hoping its the right parking lot, I see Paul one of the guys run up to me and is like where the heck did you go.. I explain my story.. only to find out a search party is in progress. Since we are all out on the middle of the forrest there is no phone reception. So two by two the people in my group come back.. I feel really bad because they all went out to look for me and were concerned that I might have fallen off a cliff. Im glad that they went out of their way to look for me thats for sure !
Pictures from trip coming soon

1 Comments:

At 2:16 PM, Blogger yp said...

what a story! I am glad it all came out fine in the end, and I am very glad they started a search party for you in the event you were lost on the rocks and not in the parking lots :o) such an adventure!

 

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