"weekend" camping for the non-weekender Portlander

tristessa · Post by **tristessa** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:05 pm

OK, back on track .. please?

Excluding this "weekend" because of just short-short-short notice and lack of funds, we're pretty much game for a Thursday/Friday trip any given week. As far as I know, anyway -- Mary sometimes doesn't clue me in to her plans until a day or two before whatever-it-is-she's-planned-on happens.

Maybe next "weekend" the 17-18th? Or the one after .. hmm, mebbe I outta poke into the Hambone Springs thread and see what's going there. I could conceivably get up there Thursday AM and head out about the time everyone else shows up, all Changing Of The Guard-like...

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:05 am

That would be pretty cool! Hopefully the Abbot Road doesn't freak you out, 1st gear for about 4 miles.
The camp is pretty obvious, tho it hasn't been maintained for about 30 years. It's reverting back to the wild.

gorge runner · Post by **gorge runner** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:33 pm

Hi All,

First post here to second Miss Zora's open invitation to the shack. Since it's normally pretty hot this time of year, I'd suggest a cool period with a low misery index potential. High 80's is doable, mid 90's and above can be awful. I just filled up the outdoor shower this weekend, so there is some relief if its hot and there is nice shade on the deck, in the shack or under the trees.

I've got plenty of fresh water, mosquitos, deer flies, rattle snakes, an outhouse, a horseshoe pit, a couple of picnic tables, a safari style stove, no reservations required and too much other junk being defiled by mice in an unloved trailer to mention.

Sounds just like the Heathman right?.

Marc

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:04 pm

tristessa wrote: -- Mary sometimes doesn't clue me in to her plans until a day or two before whatever-it-is-she's-planned-on happens.

You too? I aught to set up a poll question.

tristessa · Post by **tristessa** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:15 pm

gorge runner wrote:I've got plenty of fresh water, mosquitos, deer flies, rattle snakes,

Mmmm.. delicious rattlesnakes. Tastes like chicken.

Marc, howzabout we pencil something in for (Washington) Su Casa more towards August .. heat-permitting of course. Mary and I are tied up around the house this "weekend" and the next one is the Hambone Springs trip.

.. which you're more that welcome to show up at even if the Vanagon isn't done. I mentioned it a bit to Paige when I saw her Sunday morning and she sounded pretty up-in-the-air about it, something about a clutch..?

tristessa · Post by **tristessa** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:17 pm

chitwnvw wrote:You too? I aught to set up a poll question.

And you'll get a scientifically accurate response to that poll, as long as the answers are "yes", "sure" and "of course".

zblair · Post by **zblair** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:29 pm

tristessa wrote:
chitwnvw wrote:You too? I aught to set up a poll question.
And you'll get a scientifically accurate response to that poll, as long as the answers are "yes", "sure" and "of course".

I'd be checking "other" if that's an available choice. Hell I'll even write the poll question tomorrow. Wait, it's already tomorrow. Laaaater.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:49 pm

Since camping season is almost upon us I figured I'd reawaken this thread. I still have the Sun-Wed work week, and I know Hal has an odd one too.

vistacruzer · Post by **vistacruzer** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:08 pm

i work sun, mon, tues, every other wed. at intel do you work here also hambone?

ruckman101 · Post by **ruckman101** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:44 pm

My days off will be shifting come April. Instead of Monday and Tuesday, I'll now be enjoying Tuesdays and Wednesdays off. Sucks all the way around. Even might bite into Monday evenings.

neal

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:41 pm

That's not a good camp-schedule. So it goes.
No, I don't work there. Another cube-farm in Portland.

tristessa · Post by **tristessa** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:41 pm

hambone wrote:I still have the Sun-Wed work week, and I know Hal has an odd one too.

Currently my work week is still Sat-Wed, but it could change in the next few months. Somehow the bosses are turning me into some sort of assistant-assistant manager at the store...

DEQ tomorrow and -- with any luck -- registration tags for the Westy. Then I can start thinking about campin' in the woods with Youze Guyz...

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:18 pm

What's your schedule now, Hal? Will you ever camp with us again?

ruckman101 · Post by **ruckman101** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:35 pm

Ahem, there's that little matter of a camper?

neal

Westy78 · Post by **Westy78** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:36 pm

ruckman101 wrote:Ahem, there's that little matter of a camper?

neal

I thought he was going water cooled conversion?

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"weekend" camping for the non-weekender Portlander