NARRATIVE of WARD COURIER, Continued

January, 2008

The Towns of WALES, HOLLAND, and AURORA, ERIE COUNTY, NY

I had a long gas line to traverse, this one mostly straight and climbing. Then it was a road crossing, a narrower winding ATV route, another road crossing, a frozen pond, then the top of the big power line I had taken to start this route hours before. I was looking forward to that long, smooth, west-facing downhill.

In thirty minutes I was on the ...