Oh God! I watched from the riverbank
as Hillali, a 64-year-old woman on our trail crew, fell into the
rushing waters while attempting to ford them with her pack still on.
Now, she lay clutching onto a rock and flailing like an overturned turtle with
the weight of her pack pulling her down. This made it nearly
impossible to get upright again in the powerful current. She escaped with some help and developed a knarly pumpkin-sized bruise on
her hip to show for it.
