VIDEO: Spring Time in Linville Gorge

**hangnout** · 05-22-2011, 09:56

Thanks for posting the video. You did pretty good for just random clips! Know what you mean about just enjoying the trip. Last time out 2sticks and I just enjoyed being out in the woods. Rayn shot some video so we still got to let mom see some of the trip.

Going to have to get back to the Ditch to spend a few days. Just got a taste of it in the fall but it was enough to want more.

**Hawk-eye** · 05-22-2011, 10:16

Originally Posted by MacEntyre

Great stuff, Hawk-eye! Thanks!

I believe this was the best hike I have ever been on. Tom & Jerry were great hiking partners. (And no one made fun of their names all week.) We joined forces with the Hickery Bros, which made for an exciting day, then met you and Glenn at the trailhead. After a nice dinner at Louise's, sitting around the 100 year old fire pit was really special!

Thanks Mac ... good to see everyone this trip wasn't it? With all the online chatter preceding the gathering ... it shapped up pretty nicely

Originally Posted by Cranky Bear

Great stuff Hawkeye, man I need to get out there the vids and pics you all post of the Big Ditch are just beautiful, well that and I wanna hang with you fellers! Thanks for taking the time to do this Hawkeye!!

You're more than welcome and thanks for the compliments. You know you're welcome to join us anytime!

Originally Posted by flatline

Hawk-eye thanks for posting some really cool footage. looks like y'all had a great trip with an awesome crew!
really fun to watch.

Well thank ya ... yeah the Gorge Rats are a most excellent group of folks.

Originally Posted by hangnout

Thanks for posting the video. You did pretty good for just random clips! Know what you mean about just enjoying the trip. Last time out 2sticks and I just enjoyed being out in the woods. Rayn shot some video so we still got to let mom see some of the trip.

Going to have to get back to the Ditch to spend a few days. Just got a taste of it in the fall but it was enough to want more.

Hope to see you there sometime soon pal ... and of course 2sticks will always be the queen of the Ditch! Might be able to stir up some more blue Jolly Ranchers for her highness!

**ShellD** · 05-22-2011, 10:18

Man, I was really wanting to make this hang but had some last minute issues come up. Thanks to Mac and Hawkeye for posting the videos and hopefully I'll make the next one.

**Fronkey** · 05-22-2011, 10:24

Everyone just looks likes a blast to hang out with. Next Spring, this Fronkey will make sure he's hanging in the Gorge with everyone. Thanks for sharing and glad you had a great time and got to spend some time with your friends.

Fronkey

**Hawk-eye** · 05-22-2011, 10:46

Originally Posted by ShellD

Man, I was really wanting to make this hang but had some last minute issues come up. Thanks to Mac and Hawkeye for posting the videos and hopefully I'll make the next one.

Originally Posted by Fronkey

Everyone just looks likes a blast to hang out with. Next Spring, this Fronkey will make sure he's hanging in the Gorge with everyone. Thanks for sharing and glad you had a great time and got to spend some time with your friends.

Fronkey

Thanks fellers glad you enjoyed them ... and remember planning for Gorge Rat gatherings take place on www.linvillegorge.net .. home of the Gorge Rats.

**MacEntyre** · 05-22-2011, 11:08

Hawk-eye, had to chuckle at you and me coming up with the same idea for making the video for this trip! I figured there were one or two segments of 10 to 20 seconds in each video file that were representative. With Thing1's help, it worked well!

Thing1 is jealous, and wants to go to the Gorge this summer. Maybe I'll do a trip this summer with Thing1, Smiling Face and IronK, using the state park campground as home base for the Egg Roll, with overnight hikes between swimming holes.

**Raul Perez** · 05-22-2011, 12:16

Great compilation of clips. That gorge sure looks purdy!

**gargoyle** · 05-22-2011, 14:47

Now I got a cravin' for livermush pizza and balancing a tree on my chin.

**GrizzlyAdams** · 05-22-2011, 15:17

thanks Hawkeye---
I was watching the segment where shug was telling the story about Hickory when my wife strolls in and wants to know what I'm watching. Good thing I had the headphones on...tried to keep from grinning and said just that my friend the juggler was telling a story....

there be a fair bit of up and down in that there Gorge it looks like....