Though the events of this trip generally happened as written, the dialogue is from memory. There may be some things I left out. We’d planned this hiking trip for about six months--ten days in the mountains. Everything had gone fine with one exception. The trip was supposed to be my wife, Lanae, and I plus two couples that were our best friends. Cathy, Lanae’s sister, and her fiancé Robert, along with Lanae’s best friend S...