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Originally Posted by Crowbob
Not so exciting as Eskimo rolls, cave diving or vivisection I with two buddies ran out of gas on a fly-in fishing trip on Lake Missinabe in an aluminum fishing boat while wearing nothing but shorts and t-shirts in the fall.
One of the oarlocks broke, the wind picked up and it was suddenly nightfall. We each took our turns with panic when the air turned to about 30 degrees.
We rowed, sort of, against the wind all night long. Just about the time exhaustion set in the plan was to ram onto the rocky shore and spend the night in the overturned boat. Were it not for the harvest moonlight it was a certainty that we would perish.
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This reminds me of being on the top of the mountain I live on.
One fine day, I decided (in a snowstorm) to test the AWD drive system of my volvo.
I drove it stupidly on the Blue ridge parkway during a snowstorm.
With the whiteout- I was unable to read the snow, and it had blown into 3 foot tall drifts. Like the dumbass I am, I drove right into it, got stuck, and then had to dig myself out. Dressed in work slacks and a cotton shirt, I quickly became hypothermic in 15 degree temps and 40 mph winds. I began to shiver uncontrollably. I discovered AWD sucks ass and is not 4wd.
After a while a guy meandering in his jeep drove up and helped. Sadly, I was SO incapacitated, I was not even able to put tow straps under the car. I was a worthless mess. It took about 30 minutes before I could think straight again.
I will never drive into harms way again.