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You walk along the raging stream, looking for a place to cross. In a little while you come to a section that is strewn with boulders. You tighten your backpack and leap from rock to rock. You're almost across when your right foot comes down on a loose rock, throwing you off balance and into the icy water. Spray flies in your face as you frantically clutch at a jammed log and then half swim, half wade to the opposite bank.
You're soaked to the skin and shivering so hard that you can barely breathe. You try to warm up by walking, heading southeast along the base of the rock wall. If you can find a place to scale it, you can head straight east again toward the ranger station. But your plunge in the stream has left you badly chilled. You're not sure that you can go on.
There is some brush wood and dry pine branches nearby. It might be a good idea to start a fire and dry off completely. You thought you had plenty of matches, but one pack is soaked, and the pack that stayed dry has only one match left.
Should you use your last match? Maybe it's more important to keep moving. If you take time to build a fire and warm up, you may not reach the ranger station before dark.
If you stop to build a fire, turn to page 11.
If you continue on, turn to page 14.
>Do we build a fire or press on while cold neets?