Outdoor Bloggers' Christmas Pantomime

A "Blog Your Own Adventure" starts tonight across at LondonBackPacker's blog. We hope you enjoy it.

Duncan

Bloggers Pantomime 1, page 5

Slightly longer, the new route is less steep, and passes through some pleasant, sheltered copses. Walking along the track, you are making good time, and even manage to ford a stream without incident. The stream looks clear so you top up your hydration sack so that you’ll have plenty of water for the rest of the day. You drop a couple of purification tabs in just to be on the safe side.

With your pack off, a snack of a trail bar and water from the stream seems idyllic. An hour later down the track, you realise that you drank the water straight from the stream without purifying it. Looking up the hill, you notice the sheep and even the odd goat.

As you walk along the track, which is soon going to swing round to the hill pass, do you:

Forget about drinking the untreated water and hope that this won’t affect the meeting.

Or

Stop and check your first aid manual.

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Bloggers Pantomime 1, page 52

 

Leaving the copse behind, you head further up the hill and your boots are soon stepping on more rock than gravel path. Your walking pole comes in handy a few times, as the track edges give way. The recent bad weather can’t have helped, and you feel good about your National Trust membership as the money goes towards track maintenance.

Mehhhh!

A large goat bleats at you as you realise that you haven’t been paying attention and walked round the boulder almost into it. Stepping back, your right foot fails to reach the path as you lose your balance.

Do you

Try and regain your balance before falling down the path?

Or

Fling yourself towards the boulder, trying to grab hold of it?

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