Matt`s Version:
Central America has a lot of volcanoes. Some are dormant, and some are very active, but until we reached Nicaragua, none of them had been walked on by the Mary.
I´d tried to get her to come with me, but she had gracefully declined (read: wimped out) several times until I successfully pressured her to climb Cerro Negro outside of Leon in Nicaragua.
We went on a 4am hike with an organization that gives all its earnings to help street children in Leon, and climbed up to the top and into the crater of a volcano where sulfurous steam and heat leaked from the ground.
The countryside was lush and beautiful. The views from the volcano were spectacular. The weather was perfect.
But the thing that made the day was seeing Mary´s face when she saw the 500 foot, 45 degree descent on loose lava gravel, which we were expected to run down.
The real story (AKA: Mary´s Version):
See this photo? It was taken from the top of Cerro Negro, the volcano that we ran down. Hopefully you can appreciate how insanely scary it is to throw your fragile body down a hill full of loose gravel at a million miles per hour. For the record, Matt still has a scar from this activity.
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