Hambone Springs Camp - July 30-Aug 1 2010

LiveonJG · Post by **LiveonJG** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 11:02 pm

tristessa wrote:
LiveonJG wrote:When's the weenie fest this year?
.. are you missing Gypsie's sausage?

Is it just me?

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:07 am

Hunter's Moon/Sausage Festival at the Collowash, October. Someone else pick a date.

Westy78 · Post by **Westy78** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:11 am

hambone wrote:Hunter's Moon/Sausage Festival at the Collowash, October. Someone else pick a date.

15-17th. I'm hunting the week before.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:42 am

Bambi Killerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Man I'd love to get a grouse. Apparently they just stand there when they get freaked and you can just walk right up to them. I've had them stand in the road, glazed as I almost drove right over them! Plump.

Probably heading to Hambone tomorrow after sneaking out of work early. Or very early Friday. I got a "new" '38 map that shows trails I didn't know about all over the place. Can't wait to go stumbling around. I hope to some day connect Hambone with Linney on a very old trail that I have yet to find...

And thanks to Hal for exchanging my broken loppers!

Wooohoo lifetime warranty and a store that honors it! Now I can go chop shit like a fool in the middle of nowhere.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:58 am

Looks like me and Eva are heading out there this afternoon. Can't wait to get the **** out of here.
Talk to you guys later.

fancy pants · Post by **fancy pants** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:06 pm

Wish we could join you this weekend, Bob! Soon...

Oregon72 · Post by **Oregon72** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:02 pm

I ended up with a booked up kid calendar this weekend Hammy - I had good intentions of being up there with you this weekend and making this a father/daughter campout with the girls. Don't give up on me, let's try again one of these upcoming weekends.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 8:51 pm

It sure is quiet out there. Crickets and owls. Old history turning slowly to dust. Missed all you guys out there, and my kid who is in Illinois all summer for a college internship. Strangely quiet at Hambone this year, but very special with just Eva and I and the summertime, cricket chorus.

banana and oyster still life, oil on canvas 1635 Fredricooo Hambooonieiei

th' divide

best ever

night falling

and then Siberia's quick summer 1837

found by a fortune hunter

and these Hambone Relics

out

ouch (what would the Bobd do?)

Wow I love that place. It must be the most peaceful camp on Earth.

glasseye · Post by **glasseye** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 9:02 pm

Beautiful, Bob. Just beautiful. Eva is one lucky girl.

justgimmecoffee · Post by **justgimmecoffee** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 10:19 am

Beautiful Pictures... thank you. Like everyone else, I wish I could've made it. Just too long of a trip for me and my bones.
What are the coins? and the Army thing?

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 10:32 am

Thought of you as I cleared the trail down to the spring. Weird that so many people have moved away or disappeared.
Coins found by a very nice metal detecting guy I met out there. Apparently not much refuse at Hambone. But the last time the camp shows on the system is in the '50s so it's been "abandoned" for a long time. Built in the early '30s and a long way from town on bumpy roads, I can't imagine it got much use.

Oregon72 · Post by **Oregon72** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 12:55 pm

Great pics!! Man the road must have gotten a lot narrower in the past year with all those scratches on the HamWagen. Gee, maybe my bus is glad I couldn't make it - the garage queen part ya know. Need a damn bus with hedgetrimmers attached to the sides. How were the biting flys up there this time?? I really want to make the Bob/Hal camp that is coming up.

tristessa · Post by **tristessa** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 1:12 pm

Oregon72 wrote:I really want to make the Bob/Hal camp that is coming up.

DOO EEEIIITTT. A third pair of hands'll make the pooper refurbish go quicker.

.. and be useful in case a rescue-from-the-pooper is needed.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 1:41 pm

Typical for most of the camps, tho I usually don't photo the scratches. It's either that or drive off the road. Screw cosmetics anyway.
No biting flies, minor-ly annoying skeeters. Glorious weather, even had a micro thunderstorm Friday nite.

Sylvester · Post by **Sylvester** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 2:34 pm

justgimmecoffee wrote:Beautiful Pictures... thank you. Like everyone else, I wish I could've made it. Just too long of a trip for me and my bones.
What are the coins? and the Army thing?

That Army medal looks cool, did you rob it from the relic hunter with the coins? I dig the lamp too, is that a railroad lantern?

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Hambone Springs Camp - July 30-Aug 1 2010