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An Accident Report

Tragedy almost capped a day of soil mapping in the spring of 1980. Two men, myself included, nearly died in a canoe accident while working in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. I wrote the following poem for Bill Kick, the soil scientist who shared the adventure with me and who is a fan of Robert Service. Along with some succinct prose, I sent it to the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) state office as an accident report, hence the title. It is an accurate account of what happened that late afternoon in early April, 1980, about 2 d after ice-out on Cranberry Lake.