Why is it that the older you get , the more equipment you half to take. Twenty years ago I could get all my food, equiptment and clothes, for a four day weekend in my backpack. On this trip, we had three canoes and a motor boat to carry everything.
Back to the trip itself, we started with ten people, five of which were camped down wind of our site. As I was unpacking my socks, we lost three right away, two others choked it out another two days. Bugs that ventured to close were ,uh, eather beaten to death or fogged.
I cant remember a better week for camping, warm, sunny, plenty of warm water for swimming, and the fishing was great. I had to get up early each morning to beat Jan to the freashly ripened sweet and juicsie blueberries. She had to take a bush home with her to get any.
Some people were a little jumpy, especaly when it came to being persued with a snake, or followed to the beach, thought she was going to be tossed in or something. WELL? Even at night when some one would strole up behind her she would launch out of her chair two seconds ahead of her shin.
You know how they say revenge is sweet? Remember all that cold water left in the cooler after the ice melts? Somehow it made its way to Reds back.
he he he he MEDIC!!!!!
What would vacation be without Red cutting himself. Not once but twice we had to rush in with EMT's to pervent him from bleading to death. Half to admit though, he was brave when we put that band-aid on his finger
Food? Yup, we made pigs of ourselves and still only ate about a third of what we had. The venison roast was slow cooked and seasoned to perrrfection. Pancakes with FRESH picked blueberrys
( ha ha Jan ) and drounded in surip, bacon, eggs, and frybread dipped in bacon grease, yummmmm, And the fresh fish fryed to perfection. With what we had packed, I think Trina was hinting on staying another two or three weeks but unfourtunatly we half to go back to work, WAAAAAAA One of the hilights is the trip up to the Falls, not only is it senic but some of the best fishing is up that way. Theres some nice spots for bass and thats where Red and I cought a couple of nice northerns. Cought mine on an 8" chub and was using an ultra light telascooping pole, Ive cought some nice fish with that setup
The last night around the camp fire is usualy quiet, thinking about all the fun we had and who we can pull the next prank on,,, like the turkey in the tree over the trail to the out house with the trip wire in the dark, or the big hand full of sand down the swimsuit.
Of course theres the socks burning ceramoney, light em up as the suns going down and if its dark before they go out, you'll be back. The next morning the Ranger shows up to see whats happening, seems the critters were complaining about some smell up to 20 mi. down river. Always nice to have a home town boy in the forest servace.
P.S. Chipmonks prefer Trinas brownies to peanuts
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