Marengo Ridge - Chicagoland Spring Out!

mattg · Post by **mattg** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 1:36 pm

I am out. I just got back from Wisconsin after helping a freind set up a hop trellis this weekend and there are too many things to do on my list next Saturday. Have fun and enjoy the weather - looks to be nice next weekend.

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 2:16 pm

Thanks for the notice. Might just be me and the little one and the dogs.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 2:41 pm

I know how that goes! The 420 Memorial Campout (2nd annual) was not exactly a crowd. You'll have fun, at least no mud pits.

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:01 pm

hambone wrote:I know how that goes! The 420 Memorial Campout (2nd annual) was not exactly a crowd. You'll have fun, at least no mud pits.

The mud kind of added to the write up. I wish we had huge tracks of government land to just get lost on, that looks like fun.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:06 pm

I gotta say, the Galena experience really made me appreciate government land no matter how fragmented it is. All you see there is PRIVATE PROPERTY KEEP OUT and fences. The magic ability to roam free is not to be missed.
Some day I want to just take a pack and wander the hills for a few weeks with no destination, maybe follow old trails like a prospector.
The Midwest like every place else is beautiful. It's a shame it's not more accessible.

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:45 am

Michigan has a lot of federal land, but that is 6 to 8 hours out. Guess I shouldn't whine, at least it is there.

locoqueso · Post by **locoqueso** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:26 am

I'm in for one night, probably get there after lunch on Saturday. Is Turk still planning to make it?

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:02 am

locoqueso wrote:I'm in for one night, probably get there after lunch on Saturday. Is Turk still planning to make it?

Cool. That's probably when I'll show up. See if you can get site 11, then we'll have a spacious compound.

locoqueso · Post by **locoqueso** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 7:58 pm

Yep, 11 was open. It looks like it will be a nice day.

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:15 pm

locoqueso wrote:Yep, 11 was open. It looks like it will be a nice day.

Cool. C U 2 morrow! uhhh, actually the day after tomorrow...

Hippie · Post by **Hippie** » Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:54 am

I'd love to, but I have to study for finals all weekend.

turk · Post by **turk** » Mon May 03, 2010 12:11 am

Sorry I couldn't make it. You never posted the pics from the Kankakee in Indiana in November. That was a unique experience for me. I especially disliked the cold temperatures and the irrigation pump that comes on at 3 am which you didn't hear supposedly. So, we gotta revisit it soon with the canoe and float the Yellow River to the campsite.

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Mon May 03, 2010 11:31 am

On the Kankakee in Indiana.

On arrival and investigation.

The morning walk.

For some reason I have no people in my pics, shows where my thoughts were, I guess.

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Mon May 03, 2010 11:46 am

Spring Out '10 - Marengo Ridge

15 minutes after arrival, getting set up.

Kids are going feral.

Lola stoned?

Truman wants to go home to his comfy couch.

Took the kids on a hike, and a little frog huntin'

Bullfrogs! They were either croaking or mating.

Back to the campground for a little socializing.

Future pyromaniacs and Lola is really a demon-dog.

It had been sprinkling all afternoon, but nothing too bad.

After we went to bed it really started to come down, but by morning it had stopped.

We woke to a soggy camp...

...but a fire that had a second life in it.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Mon May 03, 2010 12:13 pm

Interesting pix. Looks like a good place and good times were had.
That first series of pix looks like a Jarmuch flick. Did you find the retarded evil farmer living in that bus? Doubletrack abandoned rail line that used to be the lifeblood of the region. NYC? Who knows. Gone. Imagine the work and history to plan and impliment such a useful marvel of techology, a thin strip bisecting maps and neighborhoods due to some folly of the past.

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Marengo Ridge - Chicagoland Spring Out!