So Much Water volume 1 Issue 4 Fall 2015 | Page 69

Again, we reached another opening and again we entered another section of woods having no idea of the distance to the other side. We repeated this action a total of four times before figuring, praying really, that we had gone far enough to be at or above the beaver dam. Never once giving thought that there may be more than one damn beaver dam on this stream or how we would know if we had long since passed it.