Veteran Dundee rambler Jeanette Wilson thought taking a shortcut across a fallen tree trunk over a gully was a bit of fun.
What happened next to the 73-year-old was no laughing matter.
She lost her footing and plunged 10 feet on to rocks at Seaton Den, near Arbroath, breaking both wrists, bruising an ankle and gashing her head.
The spot where it happened was so inaccessible that she had to be rescued by Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance emergency response team.
After a week in Ninewells Hospital following the drama that happened on a walk with the Gilfillan Church Ramblers, she was back in her Downfield home.
Her next outing with the ramblers will be on much safer ground when they are holding a cream tea in aid of the air ambulance.
“I was laughing when I had the accident and then the shock hit me,” said the grandmother-of-four. “I think back on it now and still laugh at myself for being so stupid.
“The SCAA team was amazing. SCAA paramedics managed to reach me and got me off to hospital. ”
Organiser Ken Dick said the group wanted to give something back to the charity which rescued Jeanette.
“When she fell people went off in different directions to try and get help,” he said.
“Others scrambled down into the gully to assist Jeannette who was obviously badly hurt.”
SCAA paramedics Alex Holden and Bruce Rumgay were flown to the scene, landing in a field clear of the heavily wooded area.
“It was probably one of our most difficult extractions to date,” said Alex.
“We had to scramble down the steep wooded sides of Seaton Den with our medical kit bags and then into the gully itself where Jeannette lay. She was conscious and in good heart despite her injuries. The main problem was getting her out of the gully and fast.”
Police officers and land ambulance crew helped hoist the stretcher out of the gully and up through the wooded slopes to the air ambulance helicopter.
The thank you fundraiser takes place at Gilfillan Church, Whitehall Crescent, between 1.30 and 3.30pm.