Maybe the snow at the top was impassable, maybe we’d need extra gear we didn’t have...I tried to put that out of my head and kept going. I had bigger things to think about. In a small leather pouch in my pocket, there was a ring.

At 113 feet tall, Yahoo Falls is Kentucky’s highest waterfall. As a bonus, as we approached, I kept yelling “YAHOOOOOO!!!” at the top of my lungs, embarrassing the hell out of Michael even though no one else was around.