Karen rolled out of bed at 4:10 and looked back at her sleeping husband. Last night after sharing a drink and a cigar with the owner and another guest of the Oasis he had fucked her nearly unconscious and came in her ass.
Anal sex was a rarity for them but last night it was spectacular and Karen came as hard as Jim. She wandered into the bathroom and turned on the light and started to get her hiking clothes on.
She caught sight of her naked body in the mirror and gave out a little gasp as she remembered shaving her pubic hair the day before as a gift to Jim. This was turning into an interesting trip.
She quickly pulled on her short hiking shorts, laced up her boots and wrestled her breasts into a sports bra and headed out just as Debbie silently pulled up in an electric golf cart.
"Right on time," the small dark woman said. "We are getting a good early start so the hike should be great. Jump in."
Karen studied Debbie as they glided toward the outskirts of the compound. She was a small dark woman with thick black hair and piercing light blue eyes. The stark difference between her complexion and eye color created a fascinating unique beauty that made you want to stare. She was just 5 feet tall and weighed just 100 pounds and was very fit. Her shorts rode high on her firm thighs as she drove the golf cart. Her breasts clearly needed no support and clearly had none. Her tight white tank top outlined her breasts with her dark nipples visible though the material.
They rounded the corner of the compound and pulled up to the airplane hangar. "We are taking the little Piper out to the trailhead" Debbie said as she slid the large hangar door open. "You aren't afraid of little planes are you?"
"My dad was a pilot," Karen replied as she helped push the large door open. "I grew up in a Cessna 182 and could fly before I could drive so I am good with little planes."
The two women pushed the small Piper out of the hangar. "This is a Super Cub with a 125 horsepower," Debbie said as the plane rolled to a stop. "The large balloon tires are for landing on sand. We can take the upper doors off if you want to feel the wind in your hair."
Karen agreed and soon they were rolling down the runway and lifting off into freshening daylight. It was already 80 degrees and the wind felt wonderful. As soon as they were airborne Debbie turned the plane and headed straight for the mountains in the distance. They only climbed to a couple hundred feet off the ground and Karen was fascinated by the desert below.
"Do you want to fly her?" Karen heard Debbie say through the bulky headphones. "We have to go about 45 minutes on this heading to the trailhead. Shake the stick if you want her."
Karen flew for what seemed like 10 minutes and Debbie was telling her that it was time to land. Debbie circled a flat spot in the desert and softly landed the plane on the firm desert floor.
They rolled toward a steep rock wall and climbed out after the engine stopped. They quickly reinstalled the doors and locked the plane after they had tied it down to cleats hidden in the sand.
Debbie was unloading the plane and called over her shoulder "Have you ever fired a hand gun?" "My dad made me fire a 22 when I was 12," Karen answered. "But not since then."
"Then you're going to learn something today," Debbie said as she walked up with a small black pistol in her hand. "There are lots of animals out here and if I get hurt you need to know how to use this. You're going to get the 5-minute class."
Debbie expertly showed Karen how to tell if the gun was loaded and how to load a shell in the chamber. She then told her to point it out in the desert and fire a couple of rounds.
The gun felt great in Karen's hand and her heart was racing as she pulled the trigger. The report was quieter than she had expected and the recoil felt great. It was a real rush and a feeling of power she had never felt before. She turned to see Debbie smiling broadly.
"Cool huh?" she said laughing. "I probably didn't need to do that but somehow I thought you'd like it. Let's get going so we beat the heat to the top. You have to carry your own water but I'll carry everything else. We're going up about 2500 feet in just over 4 miles so some parts are pretty steep. Keep up baby!"
"Let's do this!" Karen responded with genuine enthusiasm. She could do 4 miles in her sleep, how tough could this be? Karen strapped on her fanny pack with the two water bottles and headed out after Debbie who had moved between a nearly invisible opening in the rocks and headed up a trail.
If the hill was a constant 11% grade it would not be too tough, but as with all mountains, this one was not consistent. About half the hike was relatively flat and the other half was very steep. An hour later when Karen reached the top she had answered her own question -- it could be very tough.
As she crested the hill she saw Debbie walking toward her motioning to be quiet. Karen approached quietly and saw that Debbie had pulled out the gun and had it at her side.
"There is a big snake just around the corner of that rock," she whispered as she handed the gun to Karen. "You take the gun and I am going to try to get it to leave. If it makes a move to strike shoot it."
Karen's heart was racing as she moved around the corner of the rock and looked down at the ground about ten feet in front of her and saw a large snake coiled at the base of a rock staring up at her and making a soft rattling sound almost like a purr. Karen's heart was already racing from the excitement but managed to add a few beats per second as she pointed the gun at the coiled snake.
Debbie came around the other side of the rock with a long stick and slowly approached the viper. The snake looked back and forth between the two women several times calmly flicking its tongue in the air then focused on Debbie and reared back to strike.
Karen felt the gun kick twice and was shocked that the noise was so much louder than in the desert below. Time slowed as the bullets kicked up sand as they struck. She saw pieces of snake and sand flying in different directions. The gun felt light as a feather in her shaking hands as she kept it trained on the dying snake.
"Nice shot," Debbie said as she took a deep breath and stared at the quivering sections of dead snake. "It was a big snake. It could have hit me from where it was. You probably saved my life. Are you OK?"
"I feel a little shaky," Karen said as the adrenaline rush subsided. "Between the hike and the snake I think I need to sit for a little while." Now the gun felt like it weighed a ton as she handed it to Debbie.
Debbie engaged the safety and stuck the gun in her waistband as she walked to the face of the rock and reached around into a small crack in the back. Karen could hear the tones of a key pad being pushed and with a click the side of the rock popped open. Debbie pulled open a door the size of a refrigerator and stepped inside the rock. Karen followed her inside the dimly lit musty room.
"This is a Terrain Inserted Tactical Station. It was developed for Afghanistan and tested out here," Debbie explained. "The Army places these at strategic locations throughout the mountains and then our Special Forces guys who are operating way behind the lines have a place they can hide and restock. They call them TITS. The radio signal when they are safely inside and everything is working is that they are tits up. There is a story about three guys who hid in one of these while several hundred Taliban camped all around them. The Taliban used the rock to dry clothes and hang out and our guys just hunkered down inside until they left. This one is a little more comfortable than those."