Alpine Lake here she comes and then she's gone again

hmph. if she hadn't gotten stuck here, she surely would have made it up - she looks up and notices the near vertical wall that cuts across the trail she'd chosen, but she's not shaken. she could have made it - not now, though, with her leg cramping as it is. 

he's behind her suddenly, and she figures she hasn't been paying much attention. "I don't have much choice, do I?" but her tone is teasing and there's a grin across her muzzle. at his words, she carefully extended a limb and hoovered it carefully over the open space behind her, moving it side to side carefully and waiting for a signal that she's found the right place to shift her weight to.