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    If we handed you the mic for a Field Ethos story night, what’s your opener?

    My wife and I were on a self supported week long bike trip in Sonoma Valley California. We camped vs staying in hotels. It was a practice trip for our month long trip from Seattle to San Diego. We found a location next the Russian river to pitch our tent We are sound asleep when I hear a car...
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    What’s the one moment in your life that should’ve killed you, but didn’t?

    Not my story, but my Nephew was on a job in Florida staying at a motel. Around 3 in the morning someone is pounding on his door. He gets up, and opens the door (prior to looking through the peep site - bad idea). Two guys rush him and tie him up. Yelling at him for the money. He has no idea...
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    What’s the one moment in your life that should’ve killed you, but didn’t?

    When I was 17, I started skydiving in Clovis, New Mexico. I've had several close calls over my time jumping. Which include the time a new jumper in a head down dive when I was jumping in Muleshoe, Tx (yes there is a town by that name) missed me by about 10 -20' (traveling between 150 -...
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