The Best American Sports Writing 2011 - Plot & Excerpts
6 through the central mountains. The plane was so low that it cast a gigantic shadow across the pine-covered landscape, and made people stop what they were doing and stare. The plane went right up to where that asphalt ended and 12,000 feet of rock stretched to the sky. That was the plane that changed John Putt forever. It was October 2, 1970, and the perfect, crisp fall morning had given way to an afternoon of endless blue sky. A snow had fallen earlier and the tree line around Evergreen was touched with spots of white. It was one of those Rocky Mountain days that made you glad to be alive. Thank God for Colorado. And thank God for a reason to cut class early. Wasn't that what 12-year-old John Putt thought when that voice boomed over the loudspeaker at Evergreen Junior High School? Members of the Alpine Rescue Team, you 're needed. Now. There was a mission, and Putt was determined to be in on it. Anticipation, excitement. That's what Putt felt. The joy of the moment. Whatever had happened, it must have been big.
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