"WOOOOHOOOOOOOO!" It was amazing to be racing through the woods again. I held on as he followed the hard-packed dirt trail along the creek. We ran hard for about twenty minutes when he turned away from the stream, into a heavily wooded draw that ended at rocky cliffs. We stopped by a gate in the tall fence, meant to keep deer and pigs out. They could drink downstream.

At the bottom was a pool, deep and clear, surrounded by big boulders. A ten-foot waterfall splashed down from the rocky cliffside, and the sun turned the mist into a rainbow. "It's beautiful," I said as I hopped off.

I heard him...