If I can make it, sure, I'll go. :) Roast beef sound good? Potatos and veggies? Campfire cookies and chocolate cake? (dunno where my dutch oven is though)

[inflate ego]Show y'all a lil bit of that eagle scout spirit.[/deflate]

Ok , whatever. Just remember, you carry your own gear.

Let me just clarify. This is all going to be, you know, "outside", right?


...don't bears live "outside"?

Bears? Not around slangs place... hmmm maybe that power pole fiasco in Mansfield was just a scaled up rodent elimination device?

I have pics somewhere of bears in our campsite, once in New Mexico, the other in upstate NY. Glad we hung the bear bags in the trees those days.

We had a bear break open our Playmate cooler and eat all the strawberry breakfast bars in it. Didn't touch anything else, but he sure fucked up the cooler. I still have it. The latching mechanism doesn't work anymore, but having a bear-clawed cooler makes for good campout conversation.

Hmmm...I have video of that bear...

WHATS ROUGHING IT?

The term "roughing it" refers to vigorous anal sex. If you've ever had it, you'll understand why.

Oh mannnn now I owe my boss a new keyboard!

Dave, that's a classic :)

Dagney

oy! i live right next to french creek in historic elverson, pa!

i also happen to have a working toilet. I don't know if the mrs would let me out unattended for an entire wkend, but if this happens and it happens here, i'll at least visit and bring you dry socks.

i traveled the country for 3-4 mos in late fall and camped every night. still have my gear. anyone ever heard of the "rainbow family"

best time i had was in late oct in a canyon in new mexico...hot springs, big horn sheep, naked hippie chicks (my then girlfirend/ present wife included).....

anyway, i wonder if this will come to be, i somehow doubt it.

but if it does, i have room for several tents in my back yard for those of you who cant hang in the woods

I'm considering going camping this January (if a friend of mine comes to visit), probably in the Cabinet Wilderness Area of Western Mountain. I went camping there last June, and it was incredibly beautiful. I will probably try to get advice from my father, who would from experience know exactly what I should have and do (but might also recommend not to go at all =]).

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The Rainbow Gathering! I remember one time during my Sophomore year of High School, they had thought of holding the Rainbow Gathering in my [then] neck of the woods. I remember my humor at the reactions of some of my classmates (in my math class. Are math classes more likely not to be on topic or something?): "i'm going to have to be careful to lock my doors at night so that the hippies can't get in!" sort of comments.

My parents may have gone to a Rainbow Gathering in Tungasket at some point, but all I've seen of it is a pamplet of 'this is what the rainbow gathering is about' that my mother kept.

bears hibernate = no prob for us in winter

You don't think my snoring will wake them up?

I remember camping at Watkins Glenn, NY one rainy cold weekend in October for the US Gran Prix. Really miserable, the only relief was the heat from a burning bus. But being the pussy I am, I borrowed Dad's truck camper, loaded it on my truck and 4 of us went in comfort. It got a little warm inside so we opened the sliding side windows a couple inches. From then on all you could see was hands reaching up from below, trying to warm up next to the window. I kept flashing on "Night of the Living Dead".