While cleaning out my hard drive this weekend I found a picture taken while my consulting team was on a soils training trip - actually, on a detour we took to have a picnic at Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park. Very neat place, loads of hoodoos. So many memories…
Because to everyone’s amusement, I fell off a hoodoo while taking a photograph. (Seriously: I was walking backwards going “Ooh, I think I can fit everything!” and then I just stepped off the back of the hoodoo with a “WAAUUGHHH!” that echoed across the park. And very, very luckily I landed in a clump of bushes rather than on the nearby pointy rocks, which allowed me to make the long ride back to Calgary in the minivan rather than a hearse. Gigantic bruises, though. My camera, annoyingly, escaped without a scratch.)
Anyway, while looking for something unrelated a while ago, I discovered that Arnold Schwarzenegger did the exact same thing while filming ‘Conan the Barbarian’ in 1982. I guess he was on top of the rocks in that wolf scene - you know, right after he gets set free from being a slave gladiator? - and totally just fell off the back of the rocks. To my mind, this makes us almost cousins - practically blood brothers. I’m all, “I feel your pain, Arno.” I hear Stephen Harper invited him to come visit and talk about alternative energy later this winter. Maybe I should show up and introduce myself, and ask if he’s got any Conan souvenirs I could have, like maybe his fur boots.
First, is that a new bracelet? It’s different from the ones you normally buy.
Anyway, I’m extremely pleased you did not perish by stepping off a hoodoo. You have the resiliency of a terminator.