Adventure Woman and the Honey Hole

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After descending a densely wooded trail in the hills of rural Vermont, Adventure People find themselves beside a rushing mountain river.  The water is a deep rusty orange, but clear (and cold).  Scramble over a band of large boulders, and one gets their first glimpse of the Honey Hole; a deep cut in the river bottom situated idyllically beside a smooth lounge-like rock, perfect for taking in some sun, the smell of virgin forest, and the indescribable feeling of finding oneself happily alone in the world.  This is a sweet and desolate location for two would-be bathers on a hot summer afternoon, which is why we return there whenever we can, and why on these unbearable summer city days, this place sticks in my mind like the tar below my feet.