TAKING ORDERS NOW

270 Pages
8.5" x 8.5"

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Excerpt - Chapter 6

A close call of hypothermia:

On the third day, as I was hiking down to Fontana Dam the weather started to change and a very light mist of rain started.  I was only about three hours from the dam so I didn’t worry about it.  As the mist got a little stronger, I thought about putting on my rain pants but that would mean stopping, taking off my pack, and removing my boots before I could pull on my rain pants.  Then I’d have to put my boots back on before I could re-shoulder my pack.  Besides, the rain might stop any minute.  This went on for some time, and then I began to notice that the rain drops were freezing on the tree branches.  The rain was not letting up and it was getting colder, but I didn’t feel cold.  I was hiking and my increased circulation was keeping me warm….or so I thought.  When I finally got to Fontana Dam, my pants were soaked through and the rain had run down my shirt and jacket getting me at least damp in most other parts of my body.  I stopped under the canopy at the dam and immediately began to feel chilled.  I was learning a VERY valuable lesson.  Chill on the mountain can quickly turn into hypothermia. ….After I stopped, the chill continued to increase and I started to shiver with cold, so I went into the men’s restroom where I found an electric hand dryer.  Ingenuity always helps.  I took the plastic waste can under the sink and turned it over making a chair for myself and set that under the hand dryer.  Then sitting on the waste can I could get the dryer to blow warm air down my neck and every 30 seconds I’d take my elbow and hit the start button on the hand dryer, and so it went.  I did that for almost two hours while….