- Running:
- A young kitten drinking from a pink bowl.
- A fight starting on the beach at about 2 A.M.
- A power outage while I was running down an already dark street.
- Running about six miles in pouring rain, then coming home and making hot chocolate.
- Squirrels running in opposite directions along a power line and jumping over each other.
- Sprinting up the steep ramps along the beach at the end of a run.
- Being cooled by a sea breeze.
- Running when the fog is so thick you can hardly see fifteen feet in front of you.
- Hiking:
- A huge swarm of bees flying directly in front of me perpendicular to the trail.
- Lots of lizards and a goodly number of snakes.
- Being out of breath due to seeing a fantastic view.
- Finding an old rarely used trail about half a mile long that was completely overgrown with eight foot tall plants we had to fight through. It took months to get all the little thorns out of my shoes.
- Small creeks off the trail to rest by.
- A hawk killing some kind of pigeon. The hawk grabbed it in midair then crushed it on the ground.
- Backpacking:
- A bear! It ran away.
- A couple coyotes. Mostly I just hear them at night because they won't STFU.
- Some guy's tent literally blowing away.
- At the top of Mount Whitney, a couple eighty-something year old guys who were going for all the major peaks in California.
- Being out of breath after walking a hundred yards because the air is so thin 13,000 feet up.
- Actually falling asleep. I think it's happened once or twice.
- Rude people, never seen one.
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