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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 4753877" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>Let me help you imagine! :tu: </p><p>This was a log across a backwater slough near the Mississippi River.</p><p>The slough was several hundred yards long, but only about 15 yards wide where this giant cypress had fallen across.</p><p></p><p>I was bowhunting in early October.</p><p>Around noon the day before, I had carefully crossed this log, without incident, carrying a tree stand.</p><p>I was delighted to have found it, since it saved my walking several hundred yards to around the head of the slough.</p><p></p><p>This slough is about as cottonmouth snaky a looking place you'll ever see, and near it is where one of the biggest cottonmouths I've ever seen actually did strike me right above my left ankle. Fortunately, I was wearing snake boots on top of my stocking foot waders.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, when I came in way before light the next morning, this big cypress log was wet from dew, and very slick, unlike the mid-day before.</p><p>I ended up neck deep in the nasty crap in like a split second. And it was nasty, as in covered with all kinds of moss and crap. Did keep my bow above my head, but everything else was covered in muddy moss and soaked. And more disgusting & frustrating, I lost my small light when I fell, so had to climb up the bank in total darkness. P.S. Always carry two waterproof headlamps (one in a secure pocket)!</p><p></p><p>Worse would be falling 10 feet on hard rock, like you could have done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 4753877, member: 1409"] Let me help you imagine! :tu: This was a log across a backwater slough near the Mississippi River. The slough was several hundred yards long, but only about 15 yards wide where this giant cypress had fallen across. I was bowhunting in early October. Around noon the day before, I had carefully crossed this log, without incident, carrying a tree stand. I was delighted to have found it, since it saved my walking several hundred yards to around the head of the slough. This slough is about as cottonmouth snaky a looking place you'll ever see, and near it is where one of the biggest cottonmouths I've ever seen actually did strike me right above my left ankle. Fortunately, I was wearing snake boots on top of my stocking foot waders. Anyway, when I came in way before light the next morning, this big cypress log was wet from dew, and very slick, unlike the mid-day before. I ended up neck deep in the nasty crap in like a split second. And it was nasty, as in covered with all kinds of moss and crap. Did keep my bow above my head, but everything else was covered in muddy moss and soaked. And more disgusting & frustrating, I lost my small light when I fell, so had to climb up the bank in total darkness. P.S. Always carry two waterproof headlamps (one in a secure pocket)! Worse would be falling 10 feet on hard rock, like you could have done. [/QUOTE]
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