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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Jim Witty / The Bulletin
August 10, 2005
We were six miles up the dustiest, ruttiest, rockiest, and, for the last mile, thinnest, gravel road I could remember, when the blasted thing petered out to nothing. One second sketchy road, the next a dense wall of fir trees with no lake in sight.
That's when 8-year-old Danny looked over at me....