The top photo is my daughter's corgi getting stuck in quicksand that the trail became after many inches of rain. The 2nd photo is walking down after I fell near the top photo when I slipped on the wet clay and fell on my left hip (the dog got out of the quicksand easily and because she had four legs instead of two did okay on the slippery clay as well. The third photo (bottom) is the trail looking back after I came down it further down. About 1/2 to 3/4 of the trail was a little stream still from the 4 to 5 inches total we got in about a 24 hour to 36 hour period.
My Crocs were great because I wore no socks so I walked through the water in the stream going up and down. The only time they failed me was on the wet clay which is kind of like walking on ice when wet like this if you aren't thinking about it enough. I was amazed the dog sank deep into the sand and wasn't watching carefully and went down. However, I know how to fall since I played basketball when I was in Junior High so I usually don't break anything when I go down hiking or skiing.
The trick when you fall is to not have your weight hit just one place on your body. You have to roll some to distribute the weight throughout your body so it doesn't just hit one point and break something. This might be best learn by taking gymnastics which often teach you how to fall if they are good teachers. Stunt men and women also have to learn how to fall without permanently crippling themselves or breaking something during stunts. It can also help if you are bigger boned also so things don't break so easily as well if you take a fall.
note:If you have a an apple computer if you click on the top photo it should load all three larger so you can view them larger and one at a time. I'm not sure what PCs will do with this. Possibly the same.
The temperatures today were down from the 60s we had mostly during the Pineapple Express "Monster Storm" as the called it on the weather channel. Today it was 10 degrees colder and instead of the mid 60s it was down to the mid 50s and likely and now at night it is now 49 degrees which is still at least 5 or more degrees above normal. When the snows get into the Sierras they start to refrigerate California especially the northern part. So, usually until we get snow this refrigerator action doesn't start for temperatures to get that low from December on. So, up until now we have been 10 to 20 degrees or more above normal for our weather here and even Seattle the other day had 66 for a temperature which broke all temperature records for weather in Seattle in December.
Lately (the past few years) the northern California Coastal Temperature range where I live is about 38 or 39 to about 85 year around. The warm Pacific Ocean keeps our temperatures mild. The average temperature would likely be 60 year around for a daytime temperature. The nicest thing for me where I live is fresh air off the Pacific after traveling 5000 or more miles off the Pacific Ocean and clear air. The least thing I like about it is what Mark Twain Said about San Francisco weather which was, "The Coldest Winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco". The summer fog penetrates in a way that is remarkable chilling especially in June and July. But, Fall and Spring and winters when it isn't raining are really nice and often springlike (spring like you have in the colder states).
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