Retributive Strike
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Yikes. Sorry your stick got busted, but glad it was the only thing that did.
Thanks! Me too.
Nothing wrong with a few bumps and scrapes once in awhile. Builds character, don’t you know.
Sorry to read about your stick’s untimely end, although happy to read how it was able to go out in a heroic way and spare you harm. It sounds like it had a long and useful career and would be impossible to replace. But I’m kind of interested in what stick you will choose now, is there an old one which will now have an elevated status, or are you on the hunt for a new one?
Hmm…no, there is no old one to step up. I just made a quite nice cane out of a branch that got lopped off my parents’ big sugar maple, but a cane isn’t as good as a staff for off-trail hiking on varied terrain or for really steep trails. So I need a new staff. Perhaps slightly heavier than the last one, perhaps not. It will take some thinking.
I was looking at your dancing crow pumpkin, but I really loved (and identified with) your meditation on being a new englander.
And I think I know where you were when your stick broke – my husband has been leading Tuesday Night Hikes for UMOC for decades, and they go all up and down Rbt. Frost, and hit all the peaks (such as they are) around the Happy Valley.
Lee,
I’m glad you enjoyed that post. I liked it too.
I have never been on a Tuesday Night Hike, but it sounds like a great idea. I’ll have to look into it.
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