Janet had been climbing trees with Eli.

North_Fork_Trails said...
Hey Janet,Sounds like a great weekend! But I'm worried about your tree-climbing. Eli may be a master climber but you are not. Of course practice makes perfect but caution, extreme caution, is called for! Just yesterday Greg was up in a little tree here by the cabins, a little Douglas Fir maybe thirty feet tall. I sent him up there to see if we coudl throw a rope around another tree nearby; it turned out we couldn't; so from a height of fiteen feet he began to descend. He thinks of himself as an expert climber--and maybe that was the problem; for he trusted his weight to the wrong branch, it broke, and in an instasnt he was falling, breaking other branches on his way down, and he landed neatly in the snow, after a fall of ten feet. And if it had not been for that foot or so of soft snow--we don't even want to think about it. That fall was over before either of us really knew it had begun.

So please be very very cautious!

I love you so much and admire you, keep up the great blog and the good work at college!--

Dad
February 11, 2008 7:51 AM