For the last couple days we have been delayed due to fog. Finally by 9am yesterday my boss enters the hallway and says, "Well, who wants to hoof it in 3-4 miles and get some plots done? You'll have to walk back out too so it's going to be a long hiking day." My eyes light up. "Oooo oooo! Pick me! Pick me!" I was the chosen one. It was a long slog through ankle-twisting tussucks (mounds of grass from 6in to a foot wide and a foot deep), bogs, mosquitoes and rain...and I loved it! It felt SO good to hike more than a mile. I went out with two other guys who were already talking about weighing down my pack before we left the truck. "We should just take a shovel to her legs! That will slow her down!" This wasn't the first time in my hiking endeavors that someone has mentioned something about taking a sharp object to my legs to slow me down. There's a You Tube video out there someone as proof.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmrUiNn5DMg
It was a COLD day. My coworker dug until he hit permafrost and then I'd chip away at it to stay warm, doing jumping jacks inbetween to generate heat. We got back to camp, ate some dinner and then I loaded up with three different kinds of dessert. YUM. Looks like another weather delay tomorrow too. At least we get paid when we're not working.
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