Benjamin--they killed Saddam. We can't get him back.
Funny thing, I was just going to assert myself as well and declare a bunch of things, when I saw that I had a new email. Sure enough, James beat me to it. I was even going to say do your own lunch. That's what I get for going to help with the baby. j/k
Three things I would like addressed:
1st: I think we need our own firewood. I can bring this, if we can fit it in the truck.
2nd: Utensils, paper plates? I can bring these for the group as well. (unless we do mess kits, but I lost mine ages ago)
3rd: Is there room to tie my bike on top of our junk? I kind of want to be semi-mobile for my own reasons. Maybe I should have made a deal about bringing 1 and 2 if I could bring 3.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Here's the Plan:
OK, here we go. I hereby assert a bunch of stuff which can be treated as the defaults for what we are doing, if we decide to do something else or change it then so be it.
Looks like Cedar mountain is where we are leaning, so lets make it duck creek campground. Apparently some reservations are available, I will place one in the next 24 hours if I have not heard otherwise from anybody. I imagine that with 14 impaired the demand will be lower, but it won't hurt to make sure.
I recently got a couple dutch ovens, and have the food already to make that classic standby of dutch oven potatoes and chicken. I have gotten pretty good at some more advanced recipes and can make them instead if anybody would prefer, but I think that this will work fine. This means I will take care of dinner completely.
I will also be happy to make my dutch ovens available for use for breakfast. We will have a dutch oven omelet, or a mountain man breakfast, or whatever you want to call it. The assignments for this meal are as follow:
Everything I have seen calls for great weather, so I plan on sleeping under the stars and will not be bringing a tent. I will bring a large cooler and some ice, and I will bring a water cooler (2 or 3 gallons, I think there is water at this campground for refilling).
We will meet at Abe's house at 5:00 for an immediate departure. I will have my truck available and can fit all of us if necessary, although the back seat won't be as nice for somebody (except Ben who probably won;t notice the difference). I don't anticipate it being too uncomfortable for anybody in just the 45 minute drive. I can probably fit all of our gear in the bed as long as most of you are minimalistic campers.
Anything I missed? Feel free to chime in below and make changes to this plan, and we can get a final version of this plan in another post tomorrow night.
Looks like Cedar mountain is where we are leaning, so lets make it duck creek campground. Apparently some reservations are available, I will place one in the next 24 hours if I have not heard otherwise from anybody. I imagine that with 14 impaired the demand will be lower, but it won't hurt to make sure.
I recently got a couple dutch ovens, and have the food already to make that classic standby of dutch oven potatoes and chicken. I have gotten pretty good at some more advanced recipes and can make them instead if anybody would prefer, but I think that this will work fine. This means I will take care of dinner completely.
I will also be happy to make my dutch ovens available for use for breakfast. We will have a dutch oven omelet, or a mountain man breakfast, or whatever you want to call it. The assignments for this meal are as follow:
- Abe - 18 eggs
- Ben - 1 red pepper, 1 green bell pepper, 2 medium onions
- Ked - 1 lb sausage
- Nate - 1 lb bacon
- James - 1 bag frozen hash browns, cooking supplies, oil, salt/pepper, etc.
Everything I have seen calls for great weather, so I plan on sleeping under the stars and will not be bringing a tent. I will bring a large cooler and some ice, and I will bring a water cooler (2 or 3 gallons, I think there is water at this campground for refilling).
We will meet at Abe's house at 5:00 for an immediate departure. I will have my truck available and can fit all of us if necessary, although the back seat won't be as nice for somebody (except Ben who probably won;t notice the difference). I don't anticipate it being too uncomfortable for anybody in just the 45 minute drive. I can probably fit all of our gear in the bed as long as most of you are minimalistic campers.
Anything I missed? Feel free to chime in below and make changes to this plan, and we can get a final version of this plan in another post tomorrow night.
The Plan
We don't need a dictatorship. We just need something other than a straight democracy. Appointing a person "in charge" would be a better way to go for this type of thing.
Results of the poll are mostly in and it seems with time constraints and things that Cedar Mountain would be a good option. It is close and fairly easy to navigate. As far as activities we can go cave hunting or a myriad of other things, hikes etc. The road opens as 5 pm on Friday so that would be a departure time for all that can make it by then. It is open all day on Saturday for the return. As for food I think group meals would be relatively easy. I don't have much camp gear, but I would be happy to by some eggs, bacon and pancake mix for Saturday and Hot dogs and buns for Friday night, I even have roasting sticks I can bring if we don't want to rough out our own sticks.
Someone else can volunteer for lunch on Saturday or we can do our own thing if nobody wants to claim responsibility I can buy stuff I just wouldn't be much for deciding what to eat.
As for campsites either TE-AH or Duck Creek would serve I think. They are first come first serve so it would just depend on which hasn't been taken.
Let me know what you think.
Abe
Results of the poll are mostly in and it seems with time constraints and things that Cedar Mountain would be a good option. It is close and fairly easy to navigate. As far as activities we can go cave hunting or a myriad of other things, hikes etc. The road opens as 5 pm on Friday so that would be a departure time for all that can make it by then. It is open all day on Saturday for the return. As for food I think group meals would be relatively easy. I don't have much camp gear, but I would be happy to by some eggs, bacon and pancake mix for Saturday and Hot dogs and buns for Friday night, I even have roasting sticks I can bring if we don't want to rough out our own sticks.
Someone else can volunteer for lunch on Saturday or we can do our own thing if nobody wants to claim responsibility I can buy stuff I just wouldn't be much for deciding what to eat.
As for campsites either TE-AH or Duck Creek would serve I think. They are first come first serve so it would just depend on which hasn't been taken.
Let me know what you think.
Abe
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