123- The Red Forest -Ben Wright

Tired of the everyday routine, ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you escape. Escape designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.

Escape the battle of man against the elements of man against man. Thirty minutes of flight into the world of action and danger, where every minute is a call to adventure. These are the moments when a life hangs on the twist of a chance. The moments of escape.

We escape to the wildest mountains of Idaho, and the story of love and murder in the midst of a raging forest fire. As Antony Ellis tells it in, the Red Forest. It had taken me five years, three months, and four days.

It had carried me across 21 states. And then in the Clearwater country of Idaho, I'd found it. That was in the afternoon. The trail had led from a lumber town along a washboard road and into the forests.

I'm no woodsman, but in the daylight I've found the place. And then I started back to the car. But something was different. Maybe the late sun read through the trees. Maybe tall shadows. There wasn't a trail anymore.

Only streams where there hadn't been before. Trees that were the same, but weren't. And sounds. that were fun when you were a kid on a hike, but now scared you. I used my last cigarette three or four hours before that it was then that I started to run.

Run. And the fear grows until you want to scream and want a ground to open up for you warm and safe. But it didn't. And now there was only the dry whirring of a The rattle snake, coiled inches away from me.