Buck Roger's Anti-Gravity Belt

In C'ville the 'ole swimmin hole' is down in Oregon 'Crick', 'bout one and one half miles straight down off the Pike City Road. The Scout Hole is where we spent most afternoons from the 4th to the 7th grade.

A 60-degree sloped trail across 300 feet of open space in the brush had a scrabbling for a foothold in the red-clay earth and rock. If there was a way to keep from falling and sliding to the bottom, getting the hide ripped off whatever is exposed on the down side, it would need to be a Buck Roger's Anti-Gravity Belt!

We didn't fall too many times, but resisting the pull of gravity was a preoccupation on any trip to the Scout Hole! When we shifted downstream to the 'Big Hole' the slope was steeper, and I found myself hurtled through a patch of poison oak! More than ever, I needed a way to slow down the pell-mell plunge to the bottom of Oregon Creek!