Cuyler Page wrote:
> I guess that was the very beginning of the Stupid Era that has led to 
> the Safe Recess issue today. 
Cuyler,

You remind me of jumping off the Beebe Lake bridge. That was always a 
thrill and for a few of us led to the jump off the cliff at the Six Mile 
River reservoir just above the dam. I'm not sure if that was 100' or not 
but it always felt like it. Of course in the early 70's you had to do it 
nude and in a slightly altered state of mind. I'm not talking alcohol.

As to sledding I did my part on stealing the cafeteria trays for the run 
down the library slope.

As kids in Besemer our playground was the creek with the woods with the 
steep walls of the earth with trees and roots. Sledding for me meant 
figuring out how many trees I could miss. Kind of a challenge to carom 
off the trees or grab them as you go by and use them to swing around in 
another direction to avoid a big rock. We did have safer places to sled 
but they got boring fairly early on. That was all good and fine till one 
day on what appeared to be a perfectly open run I ran face first into a 
wood pile. [That is why I don't look like Rudy.] My last sledding 
adventure was on a grand hill out near T-burg where this fellow had 
built a geodesic dome. I spent like 14 hours sledding. We had a bonfire 
there going as well as the wood stoves stoked. It was one hell of a 
party with good people and good music.

Out here in Spastic Beach the snow don't stay long enough and the 
mountains are flat. I do hear them this morning hunting geese down at 
the shoreline marsh.

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