Clear Creek
Clear Creek "Men hang out their sign indicative of their respective trades: Shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe, jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth. But up in the mountains of New Hampshire, God almighty has hung out a sign to show that there, he makes men." -Daniel Webster, famed American statesman and scholar "If I jump in the cold water I won't get Hepatitis B." Stripping down to boxers and sox, for a second I believed him. Shivering on a ledge covered by a sheet of ice and fresh dusting of snow, something didn’t feel right. The flat mid-November light was turning to dusk and water gushed through a tight notch thirty feet below. “You just have to jump in the middle of that dark green spot, I've done it before.” Alarm bells were ringing. He was confident, then he was gone—and in that m