Mile 210.1
Elevation 5,935
Miles Hiked 0
Spent a zero day sitting at Icewater Spring Shelter. I needed to see if I could get the swelling down in my ankle and give my knee a chance to rest.
For excitement everyone at the shelter watched a guy climb down the shelter’s fireplace chimney. I guess he thought he was Santa Claus although he was about 8 months early. Little did he know that someone had built a fire in the fireplace a couple of days ago and the fireplace still had hot embers in it. Boy did he get a surprise. The first picture below is him going down the chimney with his personal biographer snapping pictures. The second picture is after he exited the fireplace – very dirty and with extremely hot feet. By the way, it was quite chilly when he did this. No, I have no idea why he did it.
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- Hiker going down the shelter fireplace chimney while another hiker shoots pictures.
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- After he climbed down the chimney. He didn’t check the fireplace first to see if there were any hot embers from a previous fire – there were.
