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I'll bite. This happened a year ago.
>go out on second solo overnight hike
>place called box lake, super pretty 7 mile all around hike
>I didn't want to sleep next to anyone, also wanted to use my phone, so I climbed up a mountain to the highest point, found a relatively flat spot and made camp
>super pretty but not a lot of water and didn't want to.boil old as shit snow
>get battle belt, water dilters, and a few bottles
>slide down a snowcap for kicks and giggles, use my mora companion as a break
>walk around and climb up get water from an already melting snow cap
>in my desperation to get water I broke off the main piece of rock I used as support. Had to climb inside the snowcap to not fall off an essential cliff.
>can't climb down, almost dark
>keep climbing up
>broke 5 footholds, found a cave, had 3 rocks fall on me that I dislodged, almost took me out with them
>some spots I had to jump onto and hope I'd make it
>only climbing gear I had was a mora companion as as pick, mechanix m pacts, and worn, equally wet boots.
>halfway through my arm gave out and got a bad Charlie horse, screamed a lot and tore an muscle trying to keep my group against the contracting muscle
>sat there for a few hours fighting if I should make a video apologizing to my family for dying like this, and a plea to anyone who finds my body to return all my stuff to my dad.
>decide against it
>make it up the 200 ft of rockslide/cliff
>get the the top, use my already dull and damaged as shit mora to climb rest of way
>don't sleep that night over the fact I survived that
>fucked with me for months afterwards
Later on I went on anyone a instead similar hike, but stayed in a fire lookout, when I went for more water I took the trail down instead of taking the fast way down a shale face. Found a shallow grave at the bottom. That fucked with me more.
I shouldn't have lived, there's no way in hell I should have been able to survive, at that age, with that amount of odds. Pic is me in the snowcap.
