Translations:Prologue/15/en

Mike said we’d take a vote: head back or push on to our final destination. Either choice meant a several-hour hike. “We passed a shelter at the bottom; it’s eighteen hundred feet down. We could go back down and stay there, or we could continue on to the Quinault River,” Mike said. He didn’t need to spell out that going back meant aborting our mission to reach the river.