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the wind was bitter cold.  She had to go upstream several hundred yards before she found an area suitable for her to cross.  She almost fell twice before jumping across the last bit of the stream and falling into the snow.  She breathed a sigh of relief before she got up and continued her trek.
    She had probably travelled about two miles over several hills and into the canyon when she came to a slightly larger stream than the one she had crossed earlier.  The stream was at the bottom of the canyon she was crossing.  She was so intent looking downstream that she didn’t pay attention to her surroundings.  As she turned to look upstream, there standing on the bank of the stream not fifty yards away was an enormous tyrannosaurus-rex.  With a tremendous roar, it turned and started running her way.
     

Chapter 15
    John still didn’t know where the feeling came from but he knew that he needed to be off the side of the mountain.  His feeling was getting stronger and he picked up speed as he raced through the snow, sliding as he descended.  He was nearing the end of the steeper descent when he heard the roar of a tyrannosaurus rex.  It was further down and to his left.  He picked up speed and he could tell that the beast was coming his way.  He slid the last twenty-five yards to the edge of the stream that was at the bottom of the canyon located on the side of the larger mountain.  As he slid to a stop he looked upstream.  Running down the side of the stream was a young lady carrying a rifle.  She was fast but not fast enough.  Several yards away and gaining ground was the same t-rex he had remembered from the crash.  Its coloration couldn’t be denied. 
    The young lady was jumping from rock to rock trying to stay on the path but with the snow and ice, it was difficult.  Luckily, the dense forest was slowing the big t-rex down.  It was having a rough time navigating several fallen trees but it was still gaining.  He started waving and yelling at her.  She looked up and he saw the shock in her face.  She was still twenty-five yards from him.  As soon as she saw him she went down.  She had stepped in a hole, twisted her ankle, and fell among the rocks.  The large rocks next to the stream hid her from view when she fell.  The monstrous tyrannosaur was still coming. 
    John ran toward the beast.  He started waving his hands and yelling.  His ploy worked and the tyrannosaur changed his attention to him.  The t-rex ran by where the girl fell and was gaining momentum.  John took off at a dead run, racing downstream.  The ground had leveled out which really helped John as he ran through the snow.  The bad thing about it was that it also helped the t-rex and it started gaining ground faster.
    John was trying to decide whether to try and cut into the forest when he realized that he could hear waterfalls ahead.  John looked back and realized that he didn’t have a second to spare. The t-rex was almost on him.  Without hesitation he pushed himself to the limit and jumped over the top of the falls.
     

Chapter 16
    Racing toward the edge of the falls, John ran the last twenty feet across a huge flat rock. As he ran the length of the rock, he jumped with everything he had, stretching his arms out as far as they would go.  It was over seventy feet to the bottom of the falls, but to the right of the falls about twenty five feet out and ten feet down, was a huge tree laying out above the waterfalls.  John arced above the falls and crashed into the upper part of the tree in the middle of its branches. As soon as he hit, he grabbed for anything he could hold on to.  He locked onto several of the limbs and held on.
    The big tyrannosaur was so intent on getting John it didn’t see the edge of the falls.  The monster realized it too late and tried to stop.  Its giant feet slipped on the snow and ice as it tried to halt its momentum.  The legs slipped out from under the beast and it went down hard, sliding