Well, the last time I headed out, I decided to go alone. Big mistake. Since I first started my prospecting adventures, I have had both knees and one hip replaced…

I noticed an area which I could crawl through to keep going in a straight line. I got about three feet into the pile and Bob yelled for me to stop…

My right rib cage took the brunt of the blow from the fall, which left me feeling partially paralyzed and in immense pain.

Sure enough, after hiking a couple miles uphill and hacking through some brush, we found the place just as he had described it.

All of this made me have to conclude that those dummies just didn’t know what they were doing. It was a couple of years later before the solution for this puzzle became clear to me.

If you have done any hiking in rough terrain you are well aware that going down a slope is much more difficult and dangerous than climbing it.