snccharlotte's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deep Creek = Death So I almost died the other day. Tyler decided that all of us were going to go hiking to Deep Creek last Wednesday. Well, we've gone hiking before so it was no big deal to us. Deep Creek sounded cool, and none of us had ever been except Tyler. Of course, no one thought to bring water except Tyler. I don't know how it happened that everyone forgot water, but somehow all 5 of us did. Anyways, we started hiking across the dam which is illegal to do in the first place. Do we care? Not really. We climb through the fence and just keep walking. No matter the threat of arrest or anything. The dam itself was about a mile long, and wasn't a bad walk at all. After the dam comes the goddamn desert that everyone somehow forgot about. Well, since I've grown up in the desert it wasn't that big of a deal, until I realized that our hike was straight up a damn mountain with no shade. Just rocks and dirt in 110 degree weather. So we're all doing okay for awhile, but suddenly I started to feel a little sick. I ignored it and kept going. Suddenly my head started to throb and things got really dizzy. Michelle was complaining that her head hurt too. After about an hour of walking, I had to sit down. Tyler gave me what he had of water, and I threw it all up. That was embarassing. I was in the middle of kicking dirt over my puke, when I started to throw up again. This time I couldn't stop and it was getting really hot, and I started panicking and crying. Jim was yelling at me to stand up. He kept saying if I didn't I would pass out. I was crying that I couldn't and then Michelle started hyperventilating. Mike and Tyler saw a tiny little pond at the bottom of the cliff and went to see if they could get water from it for us. So they ran down there, and Jim pushed me down after them. When we got to the bottom of the mountain I was still crying and panicking. I kept asking Jim if I was dying. I was so scared because everything was spinning and I couldn't stop puking. Jim threw me in the water and I was able to stay calm for a few minutes. Michelle came after us, and she was crying because she hurt her leg, she couldn't breathe and she was starting to panic. Everyone was. We were out in the middle of nowhere with no water, and no cell phone reception. It was scary. Eventually we made our way back up the mountain and Joey and I walked off on our own because we were panicking the most out of everyone. After a few hours we all made it back home but for awhile there I was getting really scared. Fuck that. I'm NEVER going hiking again. 6:09 p.m. - 2004-07-31 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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