Quicksand is a bit different - that's where you have water welling up
through the sand which makes it tricky and it doesn't look much
different to surrounding firm sand. Not what you find on a trail,
usually. You can get the same effect in a bog with an upwelling
spring. Once the stuff has got a grip, it's astonishing just how
difficult it is to extract an person or object.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 04/03/2008, at 10:34 AM, AG Schnozz wrote:
> When I was in grade-school, we were taught all about "quick-sand".
> The area had numerous pockets of the stuff and was quite treacherous.
>
> One day I was mountain-biking a trail which I never traversed before
> and I hit a patch of it. The bike stopped instantly and I was thrown
> past the patch. But by the time I got enough wind back in me and
> feeling in my extremeties, the bike was half swallowed. It was
> actually quite a chore getting it back out.
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