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    JJ,

    Great report and good photos..... Thanks for putting it together....Book Joker for next years drawing for us...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Just Jeff View Post
    Got my page up. Handful of pics, a few more borrowed ones, some blurbs on coyotes and ponies, and of course how well the MWUQ worked.

    http://www.tothewoods.net/HikingPicturesMtRogers.html

    Best part was definitely meeting all the good folks. It amazes me how every year there are folks whose first night in a hammock is sub-freezing in someone else's gear...b/c HF members always bring extra gear to outfit others. (Or just to show it off, and loaning it out is a nice benefit of having it along!) Good crew of people here.
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    Fire demonstration at Mt. Rogers

    There was some talk before the hang about a fire-making demo, and I brought my "bag of tricks" with to contribute. But it seems that I missed this demo. Was I out hiking when it happened, or did it just not take place?

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    ...might it have been replaced with the boot burning demo?
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    Quote Originally Posted by FishinFinn View Post
    There was some talk before the hang about a fire-making demo, and I brought my "bag of tricks" with to contribute. But it seems that I missed this demo. Was I out hiking when it happened, or did it just not take place?
    No, I think there was just to many people to talk to need any other activities<G>.
    Maybe next time!
    Last edited by slowhike; 01-29-2009 at 19:55.
    I too will something make and joy in it's making

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mrprez View Post
    I can't think of too many people I'd like to have with me in a war zone, but I'd take any of those 3 anytime! I hope Joker likes his pillow!
    Yep - Erik was one of the few people I really felt comfortable with. I could just tell him what needed to be done and it happened. Some kinds of trust can only be earned outside the wire.

    We'll probably be in Colorado next January so this may have been our last Mt Rogers hangout for a while. Looking like a December move unless something changes. But if that happens we'll just organize a Colorado winter hang for the same weekend! So....y'all might need a new ticket drawer! I bet Stormcrow and Thorwren could provide a couple.

    Re: the fire building demo, I was ready for that too but I think it was just overlooked. I even brought some pitchwood along for folks that have never seen or smelled it...really cool stuff. I was gonna use that for a splitwood fire demonstration but ended up spending all my fire time fishing little coals out of the fire for spoons... I need to keep my fire skills current anyway...made several one-match fires huddled under a fire in the rain once upon a time, but I rarely even build a campfire when I hike now. LNT and the extra hassle, mainly.
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    Great report Jeff! I hadn't herd about Erik sleeping on the mat I'm sorry I didn't get around to talking to them more. So many people.

    Looking at pictures from Winter Hang 1 & 2, I can see how much Joker has grown. We sure will miss having you guys close by. I hate we couldn't get together more while you were here. Busy times.
    I too will something make and joy in it's making

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    Glad to know my pair of hatchets were available for coyote defense.

    Someone else told me they saw someone actually chopping wood with them!
    (There were so many saws and axes, I thought those little hatchets would sit there unused.)
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    Birds In The Night...

    As soon as I got settled in my hammock Fri night I herd a bird calling near by. It seamed unusual to hear a bird calling that close, at night, in the winter. It continued... nice & clear. It had to be close!

    But as it continued to sing, it's songs kept changing??? ...and changing???
    I thought to myself... this bird has more songs than a Mocking Bird!!!

    Then it began to sound like music??????? AHHH... but then I realized that my IPOD had gotten turned on when I put it above my head

    BTW... I have bird calls as well as music on my IPOD<G>.
    I too will something make and joy in it's making

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    I just recieved my 9.3 oz. of 900 fp down that I won, from Ed (it took me a while to get my address to him). Since I dont use UQ's and I have a TQ, I decided to try my hand at Thru-Hikers Whitney down coat to go under my hard shell. I have to buy the kit w/down, but that will give me enough down for two coats plus. I am planning on giving the second one to my oldest son when he gets back from the Gulf. This is my first project with down, so I am pretty stoked.
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