Every summer my parents would load up the Red Dale camper and their tribe of kids and we would go on extended camping trips. On one such trip we were camped on the South Platte. Camp was quite a distance from where the good fishing was but manageable for
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Every summer my parents would load up the Red Dale camper and their tribe of kids and we would go on extended camping trips. On one such trip we were camped on the South Platte. Camp was quite a distance from where the good fishing was but manageable for an energetic pre-teen.
One night as I was sitting by the campfire I kept looking up at a large pine tree. For some reason I couldn’t take my eyes off of the silhouette of the conifer. It was just a tree, nothing spectacular about it but my gaze was constantly directed toward it.
I finally wrapped the stone that I had been warming in the campfire in a towel and dropped it into the bottom of my sleeping bag and crawled into the tent. Toasty warm with my heated rock I fell asleep to the sounds of the river and forest wildlife.