Extreme Tree Adventure, 2000, by Adam Knudson

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Who: Adam Knudson
What: Tree fun
When: Summer 2000
Where: The deadly forests of my backyard, WI

This all takes place in the wild times of my extravagent childhood. for all you futere readers I live in Blue Mounds, yes, it is really boring. There really isn't too much stuff to do around my house anymore. Why anymore?, you may ask. Well I am currently 17 and not a kid anymore. So I just sit in my room and watch movies and play Xbox and Xbox 360. And I work at a grocery store. yes it is extremely annoying.

Back to my story, when I was 11 years old "the world was my oyster" and I acted like a kid everyday. I happen to live in the country and my house was surrounded by trees and brush. This is where I spent most of my summer, my friends would come over too and have war here. so times continued to be great in the woods until I happen to see the film "The Blair Witch Project". This was soooooooooooo scary to me, especially when you live in the woods. Sure to many of you, this movie didn't scare you. My dad used to cut down old trees and make space for, well..... nothing! And one day my dad started to cut down a tree and never finished. But I didn't know this, so it made this really awful creeking sound and was really freaky.

But in time I got over this and returned to the forests. My friends came over again and play war again. One day we found huge vines and they looked stabble to me. We wanted to go extreme on this and swing from a high tree not quite as tall as as the tree the vines were on. Eventually we found one and I was the first to go. I had an adrenaline rush and it was wild. Then I jumped, the speed picked up and I swung far, far as I could go. It was great, until it broke on the way back. I freaked out and fell to the ground unharmed. Agreeing it was to dangerous, we left the forest forever.