Once Again To The Rescue

 

Walking Stick

Carved Maple Sapling

Canon G7x Mark II
Lightroom
Silver Efex

Yesterday I did the longish, arduous, stone-filled, perimeter hike around Ravenswood Park in Gloucester.  On the return leg of the hike, I was going down a pretty steep grade and I stepped out onto what I thought was exposed dry bedrock.  It wasn't dry. It was slippery as fuck.  I felt myself slipping and in an instant, my left leg shot out to try for counterbalance while my right hand (holding walking stick) swung in the opposite direction to plant walking stick behind me. It worked. I didn't fall. It was close though.. And it could have been bad - really bad.  But - once again, the now 53 year-old walking stick saved me from cracking my skull open while alone in the woods. On that same hike he also helped with walking through clutching and grabbing underbrush as well as with helping me traverse boulders and stones in a particularly wet and boggy area..  Thanks Walking Stick..

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