Pretty surreal experience I just got back from - so as you might recall, Kim and I both have night projects. We were both collecting preliminary data at our sites, she at Bajo del Tigre and me looking at the bats at Cafe Colibri, when I realized that my flashlight was dying. More than that, I had forgotten my spare flashlight, and my other had run out of batteries. Considering that we were several kilometers from home, it was a bit frightening, to say the least. I decided to head back using my flashlight’s ailing life to light the obsidian black night, but even that failed after a few minutes. So basically, walking alone, in the dark, on a dirt path, with a heavy pack on a frigid night searching for Kim, who at that time I had no idea had also had NO FLASHLIGHTS. We are perhaps the worst pair to be taking on night projects, but alas, that was the sitch, and we eventually found each other after searching this winding dirt road for at least an hour. We took a taxi back with Mauricio, exasperated, exhausted, and glad to be alive all the same. Quite a night, quite a fright, but a great memory! -357

Pretty surreal experience I just got back from - so as you might recall, Kim and I both have night projects. We were both collecting preliminary data at our sites, she at Bajo del Tigre and me looking at the bats at Cafe Colibri, when I realized that my flashlight was dying. More than that, I had forgotten my spare flashlight, and my other had run out of batteries. Considering that we were several kilometers from home, it was a bit frightening, to say the least.

I decided to head back using my flashlight’s ailing life to light the obsidian black night, but even that failed after a few minutes. So basically, walking alone, in the dark, on a dirt path, with a heavy pack on a frigid night searching for Kim, who at that time I had no idea had also had NO FLASHLIGHTS. We are perhaps the worst pair to be taking on night projects, but alas, that was the sitch, and we eventually found each other after searching this winding dirt road for at least an hour. We took a taxi back with Mauricio, exasperated, exhausted, and glad to be alive all the same. Quite a night, quite a fright, but a great memory!

-357

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