You should go this trip BUT.......!

“I'm out. I was planning on sharing gas money and the ride with Bill. I was already feeling iffie about this trip. Just too many reasons piling up against it, but this one is to big to ignore. Yall have a good time”

“I hope to be there by mid morning planning on being on the road by 4 a.m.”

“damn hyway now i'm going to have to put the fire wood back.(not)your the best fire keeper.wont be the same with out you and bill..
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“acbabe and myself should be there by 4pm and we have a pot of campers stew to share.”

“Cool!!! Lookin forward to it!!!”

“spam, hg and i will be leaving spams house around 1015-1030. jb you wanna eat at louise's for lunch tomorrow? spam and i talked about it...”

“i was going to get to linville around 10.30am
i'll have a full trailer and it might be hard to find a parking place there at lunch.
i'll call spam when i get to banner elk.
it'12 here now . hope my van starts in the morning..”

“sunshine today. nice calm -3 now.good day for a river crossing.see u folks in a bit.”

“I wish things weren't sucking right now. I'd roll out for a visit. Linville Gorge is just right up the road, so to speak.”

“somebody say river crossing? :)”

“-3??? wow thats cold!!!”

“just think of it this way... its warmer than -20...

spam what are you doing for breakfast? eating before we get there? and will we eat at louise's this afternoon?”

“Yeah, I'm just gonna eat at home for breakfast brother and we'll figure out lunch on the road. I'd leave earlier but I got some honey do list to take care of first thing!”

“good morning people . moonshine did you set up spams tent at the site?
its 5 at my house now. looks like a great weekend for camping.. see you all soon”

“Leaving at 11:30 from work will be on road by 12:30”

“We are back, left late Saturday Afternoon because wife did not want to stay out and freeze another night. We arrived Friday afternoon to 13 degrees. I had left my tent poles at home but Spam was kind enough to let us use his extra 6 man tent which unfortunately was way to big for my heater to work effiently. We greatly appreciate the use of you tent Spam. We had a great dinner of campers stew and chili and after sitting around the campfire until about 8:30, we all retired. Temp was 8F. Woke up after freezing our butts off to find the temp was -3F. OMG it was cold. Heater kept my water from freezing but did little to keep us warm.
6 of us went hiking while 5 stayed in camp. 2, fullmoon and fridge got sick so they along with my wife, jb and Marko stayed in camp.
The hike was very difficult and included a hike downhill on a very unused trsil and then back up the Pinch In trail was is procaimed to be the toughest mile east of the rockies and it was.
After getting back into camp around 4pm, I conferred with my wife and we packed up and left to warmer climes. All in all we had a good time with the exception of the cold. She enjoyed meeeting everyone and said she will be back if it is warmer next year. Hopefully I can talk her into the Trail Days.”

“i'm glad you got back safe yota. tell your wife it was a pleasure meeting her... boy it sure was cold this weekend. Hired Geek and I ended up leaving saturday night, due to him having to get back to Augusta, and me not feeling very well from being sick.

Either way, a GREAT trip, like always, and I'm already looking forward to next year.”

“Full moon, she enjoyed meeting everyone and really had a good time even with the cold. Hopefully next year it will be warmer. Hope you are feeling better today.”

“made it home around 10am and showered and
put my wash in the washer. love the smoke from the camp fire smell. any way off to clean the van and put stuff away. FULL MOON did not find your head lamp. will look better when I unpack.”

“This is why you guys need to plan this trip in warmer weather...not January!! I thought of you all and hated that you were so close & didn't get to see ya :-( Maybe one of these days.”

“while you guys were freezing, Saturday we got up and cooked a big county breakfast, went hiking at the local mall, bought 3 pairs of pants and two shirts for 60% off. Went to mexico for lunch- have a few beers with my burrito and chile releno, back to the house for a nap, went to see ECU vs UTEP, back home for the Carolina game. Sunday county ham biskets, church, little office work for tomorrow- now for some football.”

“Glad you guys had fun, I wish I could have made it. I am putting something together for next weekend though, probably in the Smokies.”

“I wish I could have made it. I was looking forward to gay sex with JB”

“ROFLMAO!!!”

“BTW Folks that was Hyway who wrote my last post. He got a hold of my pc.
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“HOMOMENT”

“hey bill had a feeling it was hyway..”

“Made it home with No dents got in around 3:30 shower and took a nap Got to watching my Steelers and almost forget to post great to meet Yotaman and wife and Hired geek good to see all my old friends will talk more tomorrow”

“Hey guys, it was great to see everybody.

I got home this afternoon after spending last night about half way home at my sister-in-law's near Charlottesville.

Last night was pretty chilly and I sat around a fire for my third night in a row.
They have a steel fire pit on their patio and I spent more time around the fire than watching football.”

“I had a great time and it was nice to put some faces with the names on here! I'm looking forward to the next trip I can get away for, wherever it may be. :)”

“Did or is Someone going to post some pics”

“Look back a ways!!! I posted mine on MySpace there is a link on here!!!”