How to drown efficiently.

Today the Kadizzilites set off on a canyon hike.  Remarkably we were ill prepared.  First, Kadizzle thought surely The Commander would have the new super duper rescue device.  Well of course she did not have it.  So we set off up a narrow canyon near Peter Bigfoots hide out.  In no time it all it became apparent this was a water shoe hike.  Kadizzle stripped down to his underwear and water shoes and up the running stream we went.  The scenery was remarkable and the the difficulty of going forward continually increased.  With all the equipment we normally carry of course today we would not have a lot of it. Our amount of rope was limited.  We forgot technical climbing gear, and so on.  However, like the idiots we are we persisted. Our plan was to follow the steep narrow wet canyon until it met the road again.  We came across many spectacular pools and waterfalls.  At last we reached a point that it looked beyond our capabilities to go farther. The rock was slick and steep.  Undeterred we rigged a home made wedge like device and put it in a rock crevice above us.  This took some unique engineering and planning.  Without the aid of a fallen tree component it would not have been possible. We used the fallen tree as a ladder to rig up a suspended rope. The rope allowed us to reach the next level.  Finality some good sense sunk in and we realized we could go no further.

After we turned back Kadizzled was wading down the stream half naked when he slipped and fell into the stream.  The little stream had about the equivalent of a six inch pumps worth of water running down it, but in places is was moving swiftly. As luck would have it Kadizzle fell on his back with his feet upstream.  This worked perfectly to channel a massive flow of water over his head which was wedged between two rocks.  As water rushed in his nose and choked him Kadizzle thought how strange to be in such a fix in six inches of water.  After a brief struggle Kadizzle was free, but soaking wet.  Such is life