Awesome trip report Mike.
I do regret not getting out this year....hopefully next year!
Keep telling this new gal of mine about the "jeepin way"....
She still doesn't quite understand the "Wave" yet (she's a VW Golf
driver....sheesh! haha)




Mike Romain wrote:
> I have included three trip reports here Mike's, Billy Ray's and
> Steve's.......
>
> The photos are over on alt.binaries.pictures.autos.4x4 as well as posted
> at Sony's Imagetation here:
>
> http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...?id=2120343242
>
>
> Mine (Mike) first...........
>
> Well, my wife and I had a really nice vacation, thanks to all that came
> out!
>
> We ended up with 10 people including a couple of 'young Jeepers'.
>
> I went in early to try and get the quietest lake's main campsite and
> there was a warning about the creek I had to cross's bridge being under
> construction for the whole 2 weeks and the road being 'impassable'.
> Ouch I figure, I might have to do a 75 mile detour and stop to let
> someone on my email list know to come in the other way....
>
> So I figure no way that marsh is 'impassable' for my CJ7 with my
> 33x9.5's backed up by my Warn 9000 even if I am running solo so I go for
> it. Ok, no construction so I stop and walk where I thought I could ford
> the marsh and still figure no problems, if they take the sucker out, 'I'
> can get through.
>
> I made it into the campsite and set up then went and out-thunk myself...
> I am figuring Steve and Jo wanted to camp at the noisy beach anyway and
> it is 'about' a half hour 'drive' in my CJ7 closer to the bridge, let
> alone walk so if anyone couldn't get across and walked the rest of the
> way it would be better to be closer so I moved over the next morning and
> hung my pie plate on that trail head.
>
> Found Brian who used to have a Jeep, but still came with his Toyota 4x4,
> there looking at the view and set up camp.
>
> He informs me the bridge 'is' out on the river, but it is on a different
> road downstream, not the one we need to cross anyway, so that's cool.
> Turns out Peter came that way later just before the long weekend and was
> lucky enough to just have to wait for a couple nails to be put in before
> he could be the 'first' across it.
>
> That night we heard a siren go off and I think of Steve, who I though
> had one. I get on the CB and nope, no answer so figure a cop or warden
> is giving some drunk ATV'er a hard time. (there were 'LOTS' of them,
> drunk ATV'ers that is, they were trouble) Billy Ray showed up the next
> day and found me at the 'wrong' lake and then some ATV'ers came by
> talking about the crazy fools in a red Jeep who got a 'Boler' trailer
> into the next lake over! LOL! That can only be Steve and Mad Jo for
> sure.
>
> So Brian is having a nap and Billy Ray and I go over to have a look and
> sure enough, there they are. They forgot to put the CB on when he hit
> the siren, figures, and they came the other way in case the bridge was
> out so they missed my plate sign, and I did say I was going to be over
> there, soo....
>
> Steve and Billy Ray came along and we knocked my camp down in about 10
> minutes with 3 of us and the 3 Jeeps to toss stuff into. Brian was
> still napping, I called to him when we got there and by the time he woke
> up, the camp was gone. He came out shaking his head, hunh, what???
> LOL!
>
> We moved over to where Steve and Jo were and settled in. I had to go
> out on Sunday to pick up my wife at the nearest bus station because she
> had to work up until Saturday night and got supplies.
>
> Saw a ton of ruffed grouse and a few quail on the trails. Could of had
> fresh road kill if I had of punched the go pedal a couple times, but
> Billy Ray said that was too much hillbilly and he was only a red neck,
> so I said aww ok... ;-)
>
> Steve had a fold up Coleman oven which worked great so our menu
> increased in possibilities. He did a roast in it one day and I did a
> full sized chicken with homemade stuffing, baked buttercup squash and
> mashed potatoes. Mmm, they all turned out perfectly cooked. I did up
> some cinnamon rolls one evening, they seemed to be a winner too. I am
> going to get myself one of those ovens, the full chicken dinner used way
> less than one tank of coleman fuel. We ate pretty good as usual, I spit
> roasted a duck one day. Tried to get a couple so everyone could have
> some, but the town only had one duck left. We had fresh blueberries and
> maple syrup for pancakes, mmmm. Did some pork tenderloin 'cordon blu',
> stuffed with ham and swiss and covered in a cream of mushroom sauce one
> day, Steve had tons of venison and Billy Ray was the hot dog and sausage
> king. You 'mericans have a funny idea of canned chili on them dogs....
>
> So we basically relaxed and visited for the week, Peter and son as well
> as Snowboardripper showed up for the long weekend.
>
> The armed drunk ATV'ers going around shooting up the roads at all hours
> of the day and night were a bit disconcerting. One was shooting a whole
> pile too close to us one day there, so I had Steve give three hit on his
> 'big' barmp! horn to let the fool know there were others around, another
> gun went off single shot close to us in another direction too letting
> the fool know there were hunters in the woods besides us campers too.
>
> The boys went on a run there on the weekend to try and finish the one I
> snapped my frame on last year and they got almost to the lake they were
> aiming for when these same drunk ATV'ers barred the trail and forced
> them to turn around. Too bad no one thought to take photos of those
> jerks, the RCMP (cops) don't take kindly to that kind of BS happening.
> This is all crown or public land and is open to all. Drunks, ATV's and
> guns just don't mix....
>
> I wasn't on that run, I have some badly messed up neck vertebra so took
> it real easy, so those that were can chime in here with a trip report if
> wanted.
>
> The fishing was good, we kept enough for a feed and yes Billy Ray, I do
> like sardines, I just prefer canned ones to the 'fresh' one in your
> photo. ;-) Although I was contemplating using him for bait for that
> monster laker I know is hiding in there somewhere because I got his
> photo on another trip....
>
> It wasn't really good swimming weather, sunny mostly with was a cool
> wind blowing, and blowing and blowing... My bug/rain tent decided to go
> airborne one day. We had everyone trying to hold it down while I tied
> and staked some more. That thing really wanted to go!
>
> Got rained on good, but it only lasted a day.
>
> We had a nice sized wolf show up at the camp the day Steve is grilling
> some venison chops and I am roasting chicken. He came directly up wind
> at us with is nose just twitching. Man what a time not to have a
> camera. Steve got a shot of his eyes, but the auto focus bit the big
> one and focused on a close tree, not the wolf. Did anyone else get any
> photos of him?
>
> I am getting together a photo album so if any of you have interesting
> shots, please email them to me or send me a link. I got Billy Ray's and
> am wading through Steve's monster photos so I will post a link soon to
> them. Sorry for the delay, but physiotherapy introduced me to some
> muscles I didn't know I had last week and am now still barely able to
> sit...
>
> Mike
> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>
> Billy Ray's....................
>
> A good time was had by all at the Labor (Labour) Day campout and shindig
> with the exception of the rain.
>
> I have lived through hurricanes in Florida Keys where you are literally
> 12
> inches above sea level and slept through mid-western tornados with their
> oft
> accompanying thunderstorms but I never would have believed that my dome
> tent
> could hold that much water. It was just like in the movies where you
> unzip
> the fly and water comes gushing out...... and all this happened at
> about 3
> AM.
>
> The only things I owned that wasn't soaked was a plastic bag of dirty
> clothes. Luckily (?) I was able to spend the rest of the night curled
> up in
> the back of my WJ.
>
> When Snowboardripper came in with his new ex-Canadian Military ******
> trailer he had the right idea, he uses a camp bed and will be warm and
> cozy
> as long as the water isn't over 8-9 inches deep.
>
> Before and after the rain the weather was beautiful and the lake scenery
> was
> breathtaking.
> http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...?id=2121096722
>
> I'm still not convinced you can call 'Cincinnati Chili' a real chili.
> I
> grew up eating Grandma Bock's Palo Pinto County Texas Chili recipe where
> the
> chili is so thick a spoon will stand up on it own and it so hot that you
> have to scrape it off quickly before it dissolves the stainless steel.
> It
> amazes many friends when I tell them I did not have Cincinnati-style
> chili
> until I was in high-school.
>
> I later built a tolerance to it as my (now ex-) wife had cravings for it
> and
> we ate it every time we dined out for her nine months of pregnancy and
> for
> another year following the birth of my first child.
> http://www.answers.com/topic/cincinnati-chili
>
> I did appreciate that Mike had the nerve to take a taste of the chili
> and
> the brown sugar-honey barbecue sauce my daughters prefer even though no
> one
> at the shindig was brave enough to actually eat any. But I understand
> the
> reluctance because Mike offered me snails, frog's legs and other forms
> of
> bait marinated in a Thai cocktail sauce.
>
> Mike and Steve are accomplished camp cooks and presented us with
> venison,
> chicken and duckling spit-grilled for dinner, fresh blueberry pancakes
> in
> the morning and delicious fresh baked cinnamon rolls as an evening
> treat. I
> wasn't able to interest them in popcorn though, I think after seeing
> what I
> was eating they were afraid to see what Germans did to popcorn. Later
> on
> the trip Peter and Oliver did get them to try campfire popcorn and
> Snowboardripper delighted us all with corn-on-the-cob and peppers
> grilled
> over glowing coals.
>
> I did offer to make some fish eyeball soup with Mike's catch-of-the day
> (http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...1096722&idx=10)
> but
> it was declined as Hillbilly Vittles. I had to educate Mike in the
> differenced between Hillbillies (the Clampetts, 'Lil Abner, ignorant
> hicks)
> and Rednecks (patriotic, God-fearing, believing in being
> self-sufficient,
> educated small town folk) and explained it was a Thai recipe and he
> loves
> Thai food (just 'cause I'm a redneck doesn't mean I don't get around)
>
> We had an enjoyable but all too brief off-road excursion as Mike
> mentioned
> that was curtailed by Snowboardripper's cool head when confronted with a
> group of drunk yabbos on ATVs. Aggressive drunks with guns were of
> great
> concern to all involved as we had two small frightened children in our
> group. We apparently were getting too close to their
> poaching/drug/moonshine making operation for their liking. After a
> brief
> talk and promise to withdraw from the area the situation was diffused.
>
> Perhaps a call or letter to the authorities with the GPS location of the
> assault would be warranted as I imagine a whole host of regulations were
> being violated.
>
> Mike held a repair clinic one morning with the diagnosis of a pending
> trackbar failure missed by dealership technicians multiple times,
> untightened suspension bolts by those same technicians, a rear tire
> carrier
> about to fail, suspension wear to be watched but not a problem at this
> time,
> and ways to make a travel-trailer more off-roadable. Only Peter's TJ
> came
> through the clinic unscathed.
>
> Overall it was a great vacation and fun was had by all.
>

 

Awesome trip report Mike.
I do regret not getting out this year....hopefully next year!
Keep telling this new gal of mine about the "jeepin way"....
She still doesn't quite understand the "Wave" yet (she's a VW Golf
driver....sheesh! haha)




Mike Romain wrote:
> I have included three trip reports here Mike's, Billy Ray's and
> Steve's.......
>
> The photos are over on alt.binaries.pictures.autos.4x4 as well as posted
> at Sony's Imagetation here:
>
> http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...?id=2120343242
>
>
> Mine (Mike) first...........
>
> Well, my wife and I had a really nice vacation, thanks to all that came
> out!
>
> We ended up with 10 people including a couple of 'young Jeepers'.
>
> I went in early to try and get the quietest lake's main campsite and
> there was a warning about the creek I had to cross's bridge being under
> construction for the whole 2 weeks and the road being 'impassable'.
> Ouch I figure, I might have to do a 75 mile detour and stop to let
> someone on my email list know to come in the other way....
>
> So I figure no way that marsh is 'impassable' for my CJ7 with my
> 33x9.5's backed up by my Warn 9000 even if I am running solo so I go for
> it. Ok, no construction so I stop and walk where I thought I could ford
> the marsh and still figure no problems, if they take the sucker out, 'I'
> can get through.
>
> I made it into the campsite and set up then went and out-thunk myself...
> I am figuring Steve and Jo wanted to camp at the noisy beach anyway and
> it is 'about' a half hour 'drive' in my CJ7 closer to the bridge, let
> alone walk so if anyone couldn't get across and walked the rest of the
> way it would be better to be closer so I moved over the next morning and
> hung my pie plate on that trail head.
>
> Found Brian who used to have a Jeep, but still came with his Toyota 4x4,
> there looking at the view and set up camp.
>
> He informs me the bridge 'is' out on the river, but it is on a different
> road downstream, not the one we need to cross anyway, so that's cool.
> Turns out Peter came that way later just before the long weekend and was
> lucky enough to just have to wait for a couple nails to be put in before
> he could be the 'first' across it.
>
> That night we heard a siren go off and I think of Steve, who I though
> had one. I get on the CB and nope, no answer so figure a cop or warden
> is giving some drunk ATV'er a hard time. (there were 'LOTS' of them,
> drunk ATV'ers that is, they were trouble) Billy Ray showed up the next
> day and found me at the 'wrong' lake and then some ATV'ers came by
> talking about the crazy fools in a red Jeep who got a 'Boler' trailer
> into the next lake over! LOL! That can only be Steve and Mad Jo for
> sure.
>
> So Brian is having a nap and Billy Ray and I go over to have a look and
> sure enough, there they are. They forgot to put the CB on when he hit
> the siren, figures, and they came the other way in case the bridge was
> out so they missed my plate sign, and I did say I was going to be over
> there, soo....
>
> Steve and Billy Ray came along and we knocked my camp down in about 10
> minutes with 3 of us and the 3 Jeeps to toss stuff into. Brian was
> still napping, I called to him when we got there and by the time he woke
> up, the camp was gone. He came out shaking his head, hunh, what???
> LOL!
>
> We moved over to where Steve and Jo were and settled in. I had to go
> out on Sunday to pick up my wife at the nearest bus station because she
> had to work up until Saturday night and got supplies.
>
> Saw a ton of ruffed grouse and a few quail on the trails. Could of had
> fresh road kill if I had of punched the go pedal a couple times, but
> Billy Ray said that was too much hillbilly and he was only a red neck,
> so I said aww ok... ;-)
>
> Steve had a fold up Coleman oven which worked great so our menu
> increased in possibilities. He did a roast in it one day and I did a
> full sized chicken with homemade stuffing, baked buttercup squash and
> mashed potatoes. Mmm, they all turned out perfectly cooked. I did up
> some cinnamon rolls one evening, they seemed to be a winner too. I am
> going to get myself one of those ovens, the full chicken dinner used way
> less than one tank of coleman fuel. We ate pretty good as usual, I spit
> roasted a duck one day. Tried to get a couple so everyone could have
> some, but the town only had one duck left. We had fresh blueberries and
> maple syrup for pancakes, mmmm. Did some pork tenderloin 'cordon blu',
> stuffed with ham and swiss and covered in a cream of mushroom sauce one
> day, Steve had tons of venison and Billy Ray was the hot dog and sausage
> king. You 'mericans have a funny idea of canned chili on them dogs....
>
> So we basically relaxed and visited for the week, Peter and son as well
> as Snowboardripper showed up for the long weekend.
>
> The armed drunk ATV'ers going around shooting up the roads at all hours
> of the day and night were a bit disconcerting. One was shooting a whole
> pile too close to us one day there, so I had Steve give three hit on his
> 'big' barmp! horn to let the fool know there were others around, another
> gun went off single shot close to us in another direction too letting
> the fool know there were hunters in the woods besides us campers too.
>
> The boys went on a run there on the weekend to try and finish the one I
> snapped my frame on last year and they got almost to the lake they were
> aiming for when these same drunk ATV'ers barred the trail and forced
> them to turn around. Too bad no one thought to take photos of those
> jerks, the RCMP (cops) don't take kindly to that kind of BS happening.
> This is all crown or public land and is open to all. Drunks, ATV's and
> guns just don't mix....
>
> I wasn't on that run, I have some badly messed up neck vertebra so took
> it real easy, so those that were can chime in here with a trip report if
> wanted.
>
> The fishing was good, we kept enough for a feed and yes Billy Ray, I do
> like sardines, I just prefer canned ones to the 'fresh' one in your
> photo. ;-) Although I was contemplating using him for bait for that
> monster laker I know is hiding in there somewhere because I got his
> photo on another trip....
>
> It wasn't really good swimming weather, sunny mostly with was a cool
> wind blowing, and blowing and blowing... My bug/rain tent decided to go
> airborne one day. We had everyone trying to hold it down while I tied
> and staked some more. That thing really wanted to go!
>
> Got rained on good, but it only lasted a day.
>
> We had a nice sized wolf show up at the camp the day Steve is grilling
> some venison chops and I am roasting chicken. He came directly up wind
> at us with is nose just twitching. Man what a time not to have a
> camera. Steve got a shot of his eyes, but the auto focus bit the big
> one and focused on a close tree, not the wolf. Did anyone else get any
> photos of him?
>
> I am getting together a photo album so if any of you have interesting
> shots, please email them to me or send me a link. I got Billy Ray's and
> am wading through Steve's monster photos so I will post a link soon to
> them. Sorry for the delay, but physiotherapy introduced me to some
> muscles I didn't know I had last week and am now still barely able to
> sit...
>
> Mike
> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>
> Billy Ray's....................
>
> A good time was had by all at the Labor (Labour) Day campout and shindig
> with the exception of the rain.
>
> I have lived through hurricanes in Florida Keys where you are literally
> 12
> inches above sea level and slept through mid-western tornados with their
> oft
> accompanying thunderstorms but I never would have believed that my dome
> tent
> could hold that much water. It was just like in the movies where you
> unzip
> the fly and water comes gushing out...... and all this happened at
> about 3
> AM.
>
> The only things I owned that wasn't soaked was a plastic bag of dirty
> clothes. Luckily (?) I was able to spend the rest of the night curled
> up in
> the back of my WJ.
>
> When Snowboardripper came in with his new ex-Canadian Military ******
> trailer he had the right idea, he uses a camp bed and will be warm and
> cozy
> as long as the water isn't over 8-9 inches deep.
>
> Before and after the rain the weather was beautiful and the lake scenery
> was
> breathtaking.
> http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...?id=2121096722
>
> I'm still not convinced you can call 'Cincinnati Chili' a real chili.
> I
> grew up eating Grandma Bock's Palo Pinto County Texas Chili recipe where
> the
> chili is so thick a spoon will stand up on it own and it so hot that you
> have to scrape it off quickly before it dissolves the stainless steel.
> It
> amazes many friends when I tell them I did not have Cincinnati-style
> chili
> until I was in high-school.
>
> I later built a tolerance to it as my (now ex-) wife had cravings for it
> and
> we ate it every time we dined out for her nine months of pregnancy and
> for
> another year following the birth of my first child.
> http://www.answers.com/topic/cincinnati-chili
>
> I did appreciate that Mike had the nerve to take a taste of the chili
> and
> the brown sugar-honey barbecue sauce my daughters prefer even though no
> one
> at the shindig was brave enough to actually eat any. But I understand
> the
> reluctance because Mike offered me snails, frog's legs and other forms
> of
> bait marinated in a Thai cocktail sauce.
>
> Mike and Steve are accomplished camp cooks and presented us with
> venison,
> chicken and duckling spit-grilled for dinner, fresh blueberry pancakes
> in
> the morning and delicious fresh baked cinnamon rolls as an evening
> treat. I
> wasn't able to interest them in popcorn though, I think after seeing
> what I
> was eating they were afraid to see what Germans did to popcorn. Later
> on
> the trip Peter and Oliver did get them to try campfire popcorn and
> Snowboardripper delighted us all with corn-on-the-cob and peppers
> grilled
> over glowing coals.
>
> I did offer to make some fish eyeball soup with Mike's catch-of-the day
> (http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...1096722&idx=10)
> but
> it was declined as Hillbilly Vittles. I had to educate Mike in the
> differenced between Hillbillies (the Clampetts, 'Lil Abner, ignorant
> hicks)
> and Rednecks (patriotic, God-fearing, believing in being
> self-sufficient,
> educated small town folk) and explained it was a Thai recipe and he
> loves
> Thai food (just 'cause I'm a redneck doesn't mean I don't get around)
>
> We had an enjoyable but all too brief off-road excursion as Mike
> mentioned
> that was curtailed by Snowboardripper's cool head when confronted with a
> group of drunk yabbos on ATVs. Aggressive drunks with guns were of
> great
> concern to all involved as we had two small frightened children in our
> group. We apparently were getting too close to their
> poaching/drug/moonshine making operation for their liking. After a
> brief
> talk and promise to withdraw from the area the situation was diffused.
>
> Perhaps a call or letter to the authorities with the GPS location of the
> assault would be warranted as I imagine a whole host of regulations were
> being violated.
>
> Mike held a repair clinic one morning with the diagnosis of a pending
> trackbar failure missed by dealership technicians multiple times,
> untightened suspension bolts by those same technicians, a rear tire
> carrier
> about to fail, suspension wear to be watched but not a problem at this
> time,
> and ways to make a travel-trailer more off-roadable. Only Peter's TJ
> came
> through the clinic unscathed.
>
> Overall it was a great vacation and fun was had by all.
>

 

Just where do you find these Jeep Girls? Adult ones I mean.....

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"@(moo)sympatico.ca" <""sbrady1\"@(moo)sympatico.ca"> wrote in message
news:Iw%Ze.883$l03.185035@news20.bellglobal.com...
> Awesome trip report Mike.
> I do regret not getting out this year....hopefully next year!
> Keep telling this new gal of mine about the "jeepin way"....
> She still doesn't quite understand the "Wave" yet (she's a VW Golf
> driver....sheesh! haha)
>
>
>
>
> Mike Romain wrote:
>> I have included three trip reports here Mike's, Billy Ray's and
>> Steve's.......
>>
>> The photos are over on alt.binaries.pictures.autos.4x4 as well as posted
>> at Sony's Imagetation here:
>>
>> http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...?id=2120343242
>>
>>
>> Mine (Mike) first........... Well, my wife and I had a really nice
>> vacation, thanks to all that came
>> out!
>>
>> We ended up with 10 people including a couple of 'young Jeepers'.
>>
>> I went in early to try and get the quietest lake's main campsite and
>> there was a warning about the creek I had to cross's bridge being under
>> construction for the whole 2 weeks and the road being 'impassable'. Ouch
>> I figure, I might have to do a 75 mile detour and stop to let
>> someone on my email list know to come in the other way....
>>
>> So I figure no way that marsh is 'impassable' for my CJ7 with my
>> 33x9.5's backed up by my Warn 9000 even if I am running solo so I go for
>> it. Ok, no construction so I stop and walk where I thought I could ford
>> the marsh and still figure no problems, if they take the sucker out, 'I'
>> can get through.
>>
>> I made it into the campsite and set up then went and out-thunk myself...
>> I am figuring Steve and Jo wanted to camp at the noisy beach anyway and
>> it is 'about' a half hour 'drive' in my CJ7 closer to the bridge, let
>> alone walk so if anyone couldn't get across and walked the rest of the
>> way it would be better to be closer so I moved over the next morning and
>> hung my pie plate on that trail head.
>>
>> Found Brian who used to have a Jeep, but still came with his Toyota 4x4,
>> there looking at the view and set up camp. He informs me the bridge 'is'
>> out on the river, but it is on a different
>> road downstream, not the one we need to cross anyway, so that's cool.
>> Turns out Peter came that way later just before the long weekend and was
>> lucky enough to just have to wait for a couple nails to be put in before
>> he could be the 'first' across it.
>>
>> That night we heard a siren go off and I think of Steve, who I though
>> had one. I get on the CB and nope, no answer so figure a cop or warden
>> is giving some drunk ATV'er a hard time. (there were 'LOTS' of them,
>> drunk ATV'ers that is, they were trouble) Billy Ray showed up the next
>> day and found me at the 'wrong' lake and then some ATV'ers came by
>> talking about the crazy fools in a red Jeep who got a 'Boler' trailer
>> into the next lake over! LOL! That can only be Steve and Mad Jo for
>> sure.
>>
>> So Brian is having a nap and Billy Ray and I go over to have a look and
>> sure enough, there they are. They forgot to put the CB on when he hit
>> the siren, figures, and they came the other way in case the bridge was
>> out so they missed my plate sign, and I did say I was going to be over
>> there, soo....
>>
>> Steve and Billy Ray came along and we knocked my camp down in about 10
>> minutes with 3 of us and the 3 Jeeps to toss stuff into. Brian was
>> still napping, I called to him when we got there and by the time he woke
>> up, the camp was gone. He came out shaking his head, hunh, what??? LOL!
>>
>> We moved over to where Steve and Jo were and settled in. I had to go
>> out on Sunday to pick up my wife at the nearest bus station because she
>> had to work up until Saturday night and got supplies. Saw a ton of
>> ruffed grouse and a few quail on the trails. Could of had
>> fresh road kill if I had of punched the go pedal a couple times, but
>> Billy Ray said that was too much hillbilly and he was only a red neck,
>> so I said aww ok... ;-) Steve had a fold up Coleman oven which worked
>> great so our menu
>> increased in possibilities. He did a roast in it one day and I did a
>> full sized chicken with homemade stuffing, baked buttercup squash and
>> mashed potatoes. Mmm, they all turned out perfectly cooked. I did up
>> some cinnamon rolls one evening, they seemed to be a winner too. I am
>> going to get myself one of those ovens, the full chicken dinner used way
>> less than one tank of coleman fuel. We ate pretty good as usual, I spit
>> roasted a duck one day. Tried to get a couple so everyone could have
>> some, but the town only had one duck left. We had fresh blueberries and
>> maple syrup for pancakes, mmmm. Did some pork tenderloin 'cordon blu',
>> stuffed with ham and swiss and covered in a cream of mushroom sauce one
>> day, Steve had tons of venison and Billy Ray was the hot dog and sausage
>> king. You 'mericans have a funny idea of canned chili on them dogs....
>> So we basically relaxed and visited for the week, Peter and son as well
>> as Snowboardripper showed up for the long weekend.
>>
>> The armed drunk ATV'ers going around shooting up the roads at all hours
>> of the day and night were a bit disconcerting. One was shooting a whole
>> pile too close to us one day there, so I had Steve give three hit on his
>> 'big' barmp! horn to let the fool know there were others around, another
>> gun went off single shot close to us in another direction too letting
>> the fool know there were hunters in the woods besides us campers too. The
>> boys went on a run there on the weekend to try and finish the one I
>> snapped my frame on last year and they got almost to the lake they were
>> aiming for when these same drunk ATV'ers barred the trail and forced
>> them to turn around. Too bad no one thought to take photos of those
>> jerks, the RCMP (cops) don't take kindly to that kind of BS happening.
>> This is all crown or public land and is open to all. Drunks, ATV's and
>> guns just don't mix....
>>
>> I wasn't on that run, I have some badly messed up neck vertebra so took
>> it real easy, so those that were can chime in here with a trip report if
>> wanted.
>>
>> The fishing was good, we kept enough for a feed and yes Billy Ray, I do
>> like sardines, I just prefer canned ones to the 'fresh' one in your
>> photo. ;-) Although I was contemplating using him for bait for that
>> monster laker I know is hiding in there somewhere because I got his
>> photo on another trip.... It wasn't really good swimming weather, sunny
>> mostly with was a cool
>> wind blowing, and blowing and blowing... My bug/rain tent decided to go
>> airborne one day. We had everyone trying to hold it down while I tied
>> and staked some more. That thing really wanted to go!
>>
>> Got rained on good, but it only lasted a day.
>>
>> We had a nice sized wolf show up at the camp the day Steve is grilling
>> some venison chops and I am roasting chicken. He came directly up wind
>> at us with is nose just twitching. Man what a time not to have a
>> camera. Steve got a shot of his eyes, but the auto focus bit the big
>> one and focused on a close tree, not the wolf. Did anyone else get any
>> photos of him?
>>
>> I am getting together a photo album so if any of you have interesting
>> shots, please email them to me or send me a link. I got Billy Ray's and
>> am wading through Steve's monster photos so I will post a link soon to
>> them. Sorry for the delay, but physiotherapy introduced me to some
>> muscles I didn't know I had last week and am now still barely able to
>> sit...
>>
>> Mike
>> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
>> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>>
>> Billy Ray's....................
>>
>> A good time was had by all at the Labor (Labour) Day campout and shindig
>> with the exception of the rain.
>>
>> I have lived through hurricanes in Florida Keys where you are literally
>> 12
>> inches above sea level and slept through mid-western tornados with their
>> oft
>> accompanying thunderstorms but I never would have believed that my dome
>> tent
>> could hold that much water. It was just like in the movies where you
>> unzip
>> the fly and water comes gushing out...... and all this happened at
>> about 3
>> AM.
>>
>> The only things I owned that wasn't soaked was a plastic bag of dirty
>> clothes. Luckily (?) I was able to spend the rest of the night curled
>> up in
>> the back of my WJ.
>>
>> When Snowboardripper came in with his new ex-Canadian Military ******
>> trailer he had the right idea, he uses a camp bed and will be warm and
>> cozy
>> as long as the water isn't over 8-9 inches deep.
>>
>> Before and after the rain the weather was beautiful and the lake scenery
>> was
>> breathtaking.
>> http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...?id=2121096722
>>
>> I'm still not convinced you can call 'Cincinnati Chili' a real chili. I
>> grew up eating Grandma Bock's Palo Pinto County Texas Chili recipe where
>> the
>> chili is so thick a spoon will stand up on it own and it so hot that you
>> have to scrape it off quickly before it dissolves the stainless steel. It
>> amazes many friends when I tell them I did not have Cincinnati-style
>> chili
>> until I was in high-school.
>>
>> I later built a tolerance to it as my (now ex-) wife had cravings for it
>> and
>> we ate it every time we dined out for her nine months of pregnancy and
>> for
>> another year following the birth of my first child.
>> http://www.answers.com/topic/cincinnati-chili
>>
>> I did appreciate that Mike had the nerve to take a taste of the chili
>> and
>> the brown sugar-honey barbecue sauce my daughters prefer even though no
>> one
>> at the shindig was brave enough to actually eat any. But I understand
>> the
>> reluctance because Mike offered me snails, frog's legs and other forms
>> of
>> bait marinated in a Thai cocktail sauce.
>>
>> Mike and Steve are accomplished camp cooks and presented us with
>> venison,
>> chicken and duckling spit-grilled for dinner, fresh blueberry pancakes
>> in
>> the morning and delicious fresh baked cinnamon rolls as an evening
>> treat. I
>> wasn't able to interest them in popcorn though, I think after seeing
>> what I
>> was eating they were afraid to see what Germans did to popcorn. Later
>> on
>> the trip Peter and Oliver did get them to try campfire popcorn and
>> Snowboardripper delighted us all with corn-on-the-cob and peppers
>> grilled
>> over glowing coals.
>>
>> I did offer to make some fish eyeball soup with Mike's catch-of-the day
>> (http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...1096722&idx=10)
>> but
>> it was declined as Hillbilly Vittles. I had to educate Mike in the
>> differenced between Hillbillies (the Clampetts, 'Lil Abner, ignorant
>> hicks)
>> and Rednecks (patriotic, God-fearing, believing in being
>> self-sufficient,
>> educated small town folk) and explained it was a Thai recipe and he
>> loves
>> Thai food (just 'cause I'm a redneck doesn't mean I don't get around)
>>
>> We had an enjoyable but all too brief off-road excursion as Mike
>> mentioned
>> that was curtailed by Snowboardripper's cool head when confronted with a
>> group of drunk yabbos on ATVs. Aggressive drunks with guns were of
>> great
>> concern to all involved as we had two small frightened children in our
>> group. We apparently were getting too close to their
>> poaching/drug/moonshine making operation for their liking. After a
>> brief
>> talk and promise to withdraw from the area the situation was diffused.
>>
>> Perhaps a call or letter to the authorities with the GPS location of the
>> assault would be warranted as I imagine a whole host of regulations were
>> being violated.
>>
>> Mike held a repair clinic one morning with the diagnosis of a pending
>> trackbar failure missed by dealership technicians multiple times,
>> untightened suspension bolts by those same technicians, a rear tire
>> carrier
>> about to fail, suspension wear to be watched but not a problem at this
>> time,
>> and ways to make a travel-trailer more off-roadable. Only Peter's TJ
>> came
>> through the clinic unscathed.
>>
>> Overall it was a great vacation and fun was had by all.
>>

 

Just where do you find these Jeep Girls? Adult ones I mean.....

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"@(moo)sympatico.ca" <""sbrady1\"@(moo)sympatico.ca"> wrote in message
news:Iw%Ze.883$l03.185035@news20.bellglobal.com...
> Awesome trip report Mike.
> I do regret not getting out this year....hopefully next year!
> Keep telling this new gal of mine about the "jeepin way"....
> She still doesn't quite understand the "Wave" yet (she's a VW Golf
> driver....sheesh! haha)
>
>
>
>
> Mike Romain wrote:
>> I have included three trip reports here Mike's, Billy Ray's and
>> Steve's.......
>>
>> The photos are over on alt.binaries.pictures.autos.4x4 as well as posted
>> at Sony's Imagetation here:
>>
>> http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...?id=2120343242
>>
>>
>> Mine (Mike) first........... Well, my wife and I had a really nice
>> vacation, thanks to all that came
>> out!
>>
>> We ended up with 10 people including a couple of 'young Jeepers'.
>>
>> I went in early to try and get the quietest lake's main campsite and
>> there was a warning about the creek I had to cross's bridge being under
>> construction for the whole 2 weeks and the road being 'impassable'. Ouch
>> I figure, I might have to do a 75 mile detour and stop to let
>> someone on my email list know to come in the other way....
>>
>> So I figure no way that marsh is 'impassable' for my CJ7 with my
>> 33x9.5's backed up by my Warn 9000 even if I am running solo so I go for
>> it. Ok, no construction so I stop and walk where I thought I could ford
>> the marsh and still figure no problems, if they take the sucker out, 'I'
>> can get through.
>>
>> I made it into the campsite and set up then went and out-thunk myself...
>> I am figuring Steve and Jo wanted to camp at the noisy beach anyway and
>> it is 'about' a half hour 'drive' in my CJ7 closer to the bridge, let
>> alone walk so if anyone couldn't get across and walked the rest of the
>> way it would be better to be closer so I moved over the next morning and
>> hung my pie plate on that trail head.
>>
>> Found Brian who used to have a Jeep, but still came with his Toyota 4x4,
>> there looking at the view and set up camp. He informs me the bridge 'is'
>> out on the river, but it is on a different
>> road downstream, not the one we need to cross anyway, so that's cool.
>> Turns out Peter came that way later just before the long weekend and was
>> lucky enough to just have to wait for a couple nails to be put in before
>> he could be the 'first' across it.
>>
>> That night we heard a siren go off and I think of Steve, who I though
>> had one. I get on the CB and nope, no answer so figure a cop or warden
>> is giving some drunk ATV'er a hard time. (there were 'LOTS' of them,
>> drunk ATV'ers that is, they were trouble) Billy Ray showed up the next
>> day and found me at the 'wrong' lake and then some ATV'ers came by
>> talking about the crazy fools in a red Jeep who got a 'Boler' trailer
>> into the next lake over! LOL! That can only be Steve and Mad Jo for
>> sure.
>>
>> So Brian is having a nap and Billy Ray and I go over to have a look and
>> sure enough, there they are. They forgot to put the CB on when he hit
>> the siren, figures, and they came the other way in case the bridge was
>> out so they missed my plate sign, and I did say I was going to be over
>> there, soo....
>>
>> Steve and Billy Ray came along and we knocked my camp down in about 10
>> minutes with 3 of us and the 3 Jeeps to toss stuff into. Brian was
>> still napping, I called to him when we got there and by the time he woke
>> up, the camp was gone. He came out shaking his head, hunh, what??? LOL!
>>
>> We moved over to where Steve and Jo were and settled in. I had to go
>> out on Sunday to pick up my wife at the nearest bus station because she
>> had to work up until Saturday night and got supplies. Saw a ton of
>> ruffed grouse and a few quail on the trails. Could of had
>> fresh road kill if I had of punched the go pedal a couple times, but
>> Billy Ray said that was too much hillbilly and he was only a red neck,
>> so I said aww ok... ;-) Steve had a fold up Coleman oven which worked
>> great so our menu
>> increased in possibilities. He did a roast in it one day and I did a
>> full sized chicken with homemade stuffing, baked buttercup squash and
>> mashed potatoes. Mmm, they all turned out perfectly cooked. I did up
>> some cinnamon rolls one evening, they seemed to be a winner too. I am
>> going to get myself one of those ovens, the full chicken dinner used way
>> less than one tank of coleman fuel. We ate pretty good as usual, I spit
>> roasted a duck one day. Tried to get a couple so everyone could have
>> some, but the town only had one duck left. We had fresh blueberries and
>> maple syrup for pancakes, mmmm. Did some pork tenderloin 'cordon blu',
>> stuffed with ham and swiss and covered in a cream of mushroom sauce one
>> day, Steve had tons of venison and Billy Ray was the hot dog and sausage
>> king. You 'mericans have a funny idea of canned chili on them dogs....
>> So we basically relaxed and visited for the week, Peter and son as well
>> as Snowboardripper showed up for the long weekend.
>>
>> The armed drunk ATV'ers going around shooting up the roads at all hours
>> of the day and night were a bit disconcerting. One was shooting a whole
>> pile too close to us one day there, so I had Steve give three hit on his
>> 'big' barmp! horn to let the fool know there were others around, another
>> gun went off single shot close to us in another direction too letting
>> the fool know there were hunters in the woods besides us campers too. The
>> boys went on a run there on the weekend to try and finish the one I
>> snapped my frame on last year and they got almost to the lake they were
>> aiming for when these same drunk ATV'ers barred the trail and forced
>> them to turn around. Too bad no one thought to take photos of those
>> jerks, the RCMP (cops) don't take kindly to that kind of BS happening.
>> This is all crown or public land and is open to all. Drunks, ATV's and
>> guns just don't mix....
>>
>> I wasn't on that run, I have some badly messed up neck vertebra so took
>> it real easy, so those that were can chime in here with a trip report if
>> wanted.
>>
>> The fishing was good, we kept enough for a feed and yes Billy Ray, I do
>> like sardines, I just prefer canned ones to the 'fresh' one in your
>> photo. ;-) Although I was contemplating using him for bait for that
>> monster laker I know is hiding in there somewhere because I got his
>> photo on another trip.... It wasn't really good swimming weather, sunny
>> mostly with was a cool
>> wind blowing, and blowing and blowing... My bug/rain tent decided to go
>> airborne one day. We had everyone trying to hold it down while I tied
>> and staked some more. That thing really wanted to go!
>>
>> Got rained on good, but it only lasted a day.
>>
>> We had a nice sized wolf show up at the camp the day Steve is grilling
>> some venison chops and I am roasting chicken. He came directly up wind
>> at us with is nose just twitching. Man what a time not to have a
>> camera. Steve got a shot of his eyes, but the auto focus bit the big
>> one and focused on a close tree, not the wolf. Did anyone else get any
>> photos of him?
>>
>> I am getting together a photo album so if any of you have interesting
>> shots, please email them to me or send me a link. I got Billy Ray's and
>> am wading through Steve's monster photos so I will post a link soon to
>> them. Sorry for the delay, but physiotherapy introduced me to some
>> muscles I didn't know I had last week and am now still barely able to
>> sit...
>>
>> Mike
>> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
>> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>>
>> Billy Ray's....................
>>
>> A good time was had by all at the Labor (Labour) Day campout and shindig
>> with the exception of the rain.
>>
>> I have lived through hurricanes in Florida Keys where you are literally
>> 12
>> inches above sea level and slept through mid-western tornados with their
>> oft
>> accompanying thunderstorms but I never would have believed that my dome
>> tent
>> could hold that much water. It was just like in the movies where you
>> unzip
>> the fly and water comes gushing out...... and all this happened at
>> about 3
>> AM.
>>
>> The only things I owned that wasn't soaked was a plastic bag of dirty
>> clothes. Luckily (?) I was able to spend the rest of the night curled
>> up in
>> the back of my WJ.
>>
>> When Snowboardripper came in with his new ex-Canadian Military ******
>> trailer he had the right idea, he uses a camp bed and will be warm and
>> cozy
>> as long as the water isn't over 8-9 inches deep.
>>
>> Before and after the rain the weather was beautiful and the lake scenery
>> was
>> breathtaking.
>> http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...?id=2121096722
>>
>> I'm still not convinced you can call 'Cincinnati Chili' a real chili. I
>> grew up eating Grandma Bock's Palo Pinto County Texas Chili recipe where
>> the
>> chili is so thick a spoon will stand up on it own and it so hot that you
>> have to scrape it off quickly before it dissolves the stainless steel. It
>> amazes many friends when I tell them I did not have Cincinnati-style
>> chili
>> until I was in high-school.
>>
>> I later built a tolerance to it as my (now ex-) wife had cravings for it
>> and
>> we ate it every time we dined out for her nine months of pregnancy and
>> for
>> another year following the birth of my first child.
>> http://www.answers.com/topic/cincinnati-chili
>>
>> I did appreciate that Mike had the nerve to take a taste of the chili
>> and
>> the brown sugar-honey barbecue sauce my daughters prefer even though no
>> one
>> at the shindig was brave enough to actually eat any. But I understand
>> the
>> reluctance because Mike offered me snails, frog's legs and other forms
>> of
>> bait marinated in a Thai cocktail sauce.
>>
>> Mike and Steve are accomplished camp cooks and presented us with
>> venison,
>> chicken and duckling spit-grilled for dinner, fresh blueberry pancakes
>> in
>> the morning and delicious fresh baked cinnamon rolls as an evening
>> treat. I
>> wasn't able to interest them in popcorn though, I think after seeing
>> what I
>> was eating they were afraid to see what Germans did to popcorn. Later
>> on
>> the trip Peter and Oliver did get them to try campfire popcorn and
>> Snowboardripper delighted us all with corn-on-the-cob and peppers
>> grilled
>> over glowing coals.
>>
>> I did offer to make some fish eyeball soup with Mike's catch-of-the day
>> (http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...1096722&idx=10)
>> but
>> it was declined as Hillbilly Vittles. I had to educate Mike in the
>> differenced between Hillbillies (the Clampetts, 'Lil Abner, ignorant
>> hicks)
>> and Rednecks (patriotic, God-fearing, believing in being
>> self-sufficient,
>> educated small town folk) and explained it was a Thai recipe and he
>> loves
>> Thai food (just 'cause I'm a redneck doesn't mean I don't get around)
>>
>> We had an enjoyable but all too brief off-road excursion as Mike
>> mentioned
>> that was curtailed by Snowboardripper's cool head when confronted with a
>> group of drunk yabbos on ATVs. Aggressive drunks with guns were of
>> great
>> concern to all involved as we had two small frightened children in our
>> group. We apparently were getting too close to their
>> poaching/drug/moonshine making operation for their liking. After a
>> brief
>> talk and promise to withdraw from the area the situation was diffused.
>>
>> Perhaps a call or letter to the authorities with the GPS location of the
>> assault would be warranted as I imagine a whole host of regulations were
>> being violated.
>>
>> Mike held a repair clinic one morning with the diagnosis of a pending
>> trackbar failure missed by dealership technicians multiple times,
>> untightened suspension bolts by those same technicians, a rear tire
>> carrier
>> about to fail, suspension wear to be watched but not a problem at this
>> time,
>> and ways to make a travel-trailer more off-roadable. Only Peter's TJ
>> came
>> through the clinic unscathed.
>>
>> Overall it was a great vacation and fun was had by all.
>>

 

Just where do you find these Jeep Girls? Adult ones I mean.....

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2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"@(moo)sympatico.ca" <""sbrady1\"@(moo)sympatico.ca"> wrote in message
news:Iw%Ze.883$l03.185035@news20.bellglobal.com...
> Awesome trip report Mike.
> I do regret not getting out this year....hopefully next year!
> Keep telling this new gal of mine about the "jeepin way"....
> She still doesn't quite understand the "Wave" yet (she's a VW Golf
> driver....sheesh! haha)
>
>
>
>
> Mike Romain wrote:
>> I have included three trip reports here Mike's, Billy Ray's and
>> Steve's.......
>>
>> The photos are over on alt.binaries.pictures.autos.4x4 as well as posted
>> at Sony's Imagetation here:
>>
>> http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...?id=2120343242
>>
>>
>> Mine (Mike) first........... Well, my wife and I had a really nice
>> vacation, thanks to all that came
>> out!
>>
>> We ended up with 10 people including a couple of 'young Jeepers'.
>>
>> I went in early to try and get the quietest lake's main campsite and
>> there was a warning about the creek I had to cross's bridge being under
>> construction for the whole 2 weeks and the road being 'impassable'. Ouch
>> I figure, I might have to do a 75 mile detour and stop to let
>> someone on my email list know to come in the other way....
>>
>> So I figure no way that marsh is 'impassable' for my CJ7 with my
>> 33x9.5's backed up by my Warn 9000 even if I am running solo so I go for
>> it. Ok, no construction so I stop and walk where I thought I could ford
>> the marsh and still figure no problems, if they take the sucker out, 'I'
>> can get through.
>>
>> I made it into the campsite and set up then went and out-thunk myself...
>> I am figuring Steve and Jo wanted to camp at the noisy beach anyway and
>> it is 'about' a half hour 'drive' in my CJ7 closer to the bridge, let
>> alone walk so if anyone couldn't get across and walked the rest of the
>> way it would be better to be closer so I moved over the next morning and
>> hung my pie plate on that trail head.
>>
>> Found Brian who used to have a Jeep, but still came with his Toyota 4x4,
>> there looking at the view and set up camp. He informs me the bridge 'is'
>> out on the river, but it is on a different
>> road downstream, not the one we need to cross anyway, so that's cool.
>> Turns out Peter came that way later just before the long weekend and was
>> lucky enough to just have to wait for a couple nails to be put in before
>> he could be the 'first' across it.
>>
>> That night we heard a siren go off and I think of Steve, who I though
>> had one. I get on the CB and nope, no answer so figure a cop or warden
>> is giving some drunk ATV'er a hard time. (there were 'LOTS' of them,
>> drunk ATV'ers that is, they were trouble) Billy Ray showed up the next
>> day and found me at the 'wrong' lake and then some ATV'ers came by
>> talking about the crazy fools in a red Jeep who got a 'Boler' trailer
>> into the next lake over! LOL! That can only be Steve and Mad Jo for
>> sure.
>>
>> So Brian is having a nap and Billy Ray and I go over to have a look and
>> sure enough, there they are. They forgot to put the CB on when he hit
>> the siren, figures, and they came the other way in case the bridge was
>> out so they missed my plate sign, and I did say I was going to be over
>> there, soo....
>>
>> Steve and Billy Ray came along and we knocked my camp down in about 10
>> minutes with 3 of us and the 3 Jeeps to toss stuff into. Brian was
>> still napping, I called to him when we got there and by the time he woke
>> up, the camp was gone. He came out shaking his head, hunh, what??? LOL!
>>
>> We moved over to where Steve and Jo were and settled in. I had to go
>> out on Sunday to pick up my wife at the nearest bus station because she
>> had to work up until Saturday night and got supplies. Saw a ton of
>> ruffed grouse and a few quail on the trails. Could of had
>> fresh road kill if I had of punched the go pedal a couple times, but
>> Billy Ray said that was too much hillbilly and he was only a red neck,
>> so I said aww ok... ;-) Steve had a fold up Coleman oven which worked
>> great so our menu
>> increased in possibilities. He did a roast in it one day and I did a
>> full sized chicken with homemade stuffing, baked buttercup squash and
>> mashed potatoes. Mmm, they all turned out perfectly cooked. I did up
>> some cinnamon rolls one evening, they seemed to be a winner too. I am
>> going to get myself one of those ovens, the full chicken dinner used way
>> less than one tank of coleman fuel. We ate pretty good as usual, I spit
>> roasted a duck one day. Tried to get a couple so everyone could have
>> some, but the town only had one duck left. We had fresh blueberries and
>> maple syrup for pancakes, mmmm. Did some pork tenderloin 'cordon blu',
>> stuffed with ham and swiss and covered in a cream of mushroom sauce one
>> day, Steve had tons of venison and Billy Ray was the hot dog and sausage
>> king. You 'mericans have a funny idea of canned chili on them dogs....
>> So we basically relaxed and visited for the week, Peter and son as well
>> as Snowboardripper showed up for the long weekend.
>>
>> The armed drunk ATV'ers going around shooting up the roads at all hours
>> of the day and night were a bit disconcerting. One was shooting a whole
>> pile too close to us one day there, so I had Steve give three hit on his
>> 'big' barmp! horn to let the fool know there were others around, another
>> gun went off single shot close to us in another direction too letting
>> the fool know there were hunters in the woods besides us campers too. The
>> boys went on a run there on the weekend to try and finish the one I
>> snapped my frame on last year and they got almost to the lake they were
>> aiming for when these same drunk ATV'ers barred the trail and forced
>> them to turn around. Too bad no one thought to take photos of those
>> jerks, the RCMP (cops) don't take kindly to that kind of BS happening.
>> This is all crown or public land and is open to all. Drunks, ATV's and
>> guns just don't mix....
>>
>> I wasn't on that run, I have some badly messed up neck vertebra so took
>> it real easy, so those that were can chime in here with a trip report if
>> wanted.
>>
>> The fishing was good, we kept enough for a feed and yes Billy Ray, I do
>> like sardines, I just prefer canned ones to the 'fresh' one in your
>> photo. ;-) Although I was contemplating using him for bait for that
>> monster laker I know is hiding in there somewhere because I got his
>> photo on another trip.... It wasn't really good swimming weather, sunny
>> mostly with was a cool
>> wind blowing, and blowing and blowing... My bug/rain tent decided to go
>> airborne one day. We had everyone trying to hold it down while I tied
>> and staked some more. That thing really wanted to go!
>>
>> Got rained on good, but it only lasted a day.
>>
>> We had a nice sized wolf show up at the camp the day Steve is grilling
>> some venison chops and I am roasting chicken. He came directly up wind
>> at us with is nose just twitching. Man what a time not to have a
>> camera. Steve got a shot of his eyes, but the auto focus bit the big
>> one and focused on a close tree, not the wolf. Did anyone else get any
>> photos of him?
>>
>> I am getting together a photo album so if any of you have interesting
>> shots, please email them to me or send me a link. I got Billy Ray's and
>> am wading through Steve's monster photos so I will post a link soon to
>> them. Sorry for the delay, but physiotherapy introduced me to some
>> muscles I didn't know I had last week and am now still barely able to
>> sit...
>>
>> Mike
>> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
>> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>>
>> Billy Ray's....................
>>
>> A good time was had by all at the Labor (Labour) Day campout and shindig
>> with the exception of the rain.
>>
>> I have lived through hurricanes in Florida Keys where you are literally
>> 12
>> inches above sea level and slept through mid-western tornados with their
>> oft
>> accompanying thunderstorms but I never would have believed that my dome
>> tent
>> could hold that much water. It was just like in the movies where you
>> unzip
>> the fly and water comes gushing out...... and all this happened at
>> about 3
>> AM.
>>
>> The only things I owned that wasn't soaked was a plastic bag of dirty
>> clothes. Luckily (?) I was able to spend the rest of the night curled
>> up in
>> the back of my WJ.
>>
>> When Snowboardripper came in with his new ex-Canadian Military ******
>> trailer he had the right idea, he uses a camp bed and will be warm and
>> cozy
>> as long as the water isn't over 8-9 inches deep.
>>
>> Before and after the rain the weather was beautiful and the lake scenery
>> was
>> breathtaking.
>> http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...?id=2121096722
>>
>> I'm still not convinced you can call 'Cincinnati Chili' a real chili. I
>> grew up eating Grandma Bock's Palo Pinto County Texas Chili recipe where
>> the
>> chili is so thick a spoon will stand up on it own and it so hot that you
>> have to scrape it off quickly before it dissolves the stainless steel. It
>> amazes many friends when I tell them I did not have Cincinnati-style
>> chili
>> until I was in high-school.
>>
>> I later built a tolerance to it as my (now ex-) wife had cravings for it
>> and
>> we ate it every time we dined out for her nine months of pregnancy and
>> for
>> another year following the birth of my first child.
>> http://www.answers.com/topic/cincinnati-chili
>>
>> I did appreciate that Mike had the nerve to take a taste of the chili
>> and
>> the brown sugar-honey barbecue sauce my daughters prefer even though no
>> one
>> at the shindig was brave enough to actually eat any. But I understand
>> the
>> reluctance because Mike offered me snails, frog's legs and other forms
>> of
>> bait marinated in a Thai cocktail sauce.
>>
>> Mike and Steve are accomplished camp cooks and presented us with
>> venison,
>> chicken and duckling spit-grilled for dinner, fresh blueberry pancakes
>> in
>> the morning and delicious fresh baked cinnamon rolls as an evening
>> treat. I
>> wasn't able to interest them in popcorn though, I think after seeing
>> what I
>> was eating they were afraid to see what Germans did to popcorn. Later
>> on
>> the trip Peter and Oliver did get them to try campfire popcorn and
>> Snowboardripper delighted us all with corn-on-the-cob and peppers
>> grilled
>> over glowing coals.
>>
>> I did offer to make some fish eyeball soup with Mike's catch-of-the day
>> (http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...1096722&idx=10)
>> but
>> it was declined as Hillbilly Vittles. I had to educate Mike in the
>> differenced between Hillbillies (the Clampetts, 'Lil Abner, ignorant
>> hicks)
>> and Rednecks (patriotic, God-fearing, believing in being
>> self-sufficient,
>> educated small town folk) and explained it was a Thai recipe and he
>> loves
>> Thai food (just 'cause I'm a redneck doesn't mean I don't get around)
>>
>> We had an enjoyable but all too brief off-road excursion as Mike
>> mentioned
>> that was curtailed by Snowboardripper's cool head when confronted with a
>> group of drunk yabbos on ATVs. Aggressive drunks with guns were of
>> great
>> concern to all involved as we had two small frightened children in our
>> group. We apparently were getting too close to their
>> poaching/drug/moonshine making operation for their liking. After a
>> brief
>> talk and promise to withdraw from the area the situation was diffused.
>>
>> Perhaps a call or letter to the authorities with the GPS location of the
>> assault would be warranted as I imagine a whole host of regulations were
>> being violated.
>>
>> Mike held a repair clinic one morning with the diagnosis of a pending
>> trackbar failure missed by dealership technicians multiple times,
>> untightened suspension bolts by those same technicians, a rear tire
>> carrier
>> about to fail, suspension wear to be watched but not a problem at this
>> time,
>> and ways to make a travel-trailer more off-roadable. Only Peter's TJ
>> came
>> through the clinic unscathed.
>>
>> Overall it was a great vacation and fun was had by all.
>>