We were tired. Not just from the physical exertion of all that climbing about and lugging things, but from several hours of operating under a load of adrenaline, heat, and worry that things would go wrong. The release we got when we arrived back at the shack, with the feeling that we had pulled this off and not been caught, was enormous. We danced around gleefully, then threw our clothing off and went skinny-dipping in the river, the cold waters doing much to remove not just the coating of sweat