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Some cool entries recently! Everyone's kicking up a notch before the big drawing. Thanks again Will!
Prom52 - Looks like a lot of fun in Key West. I went there with my family around 40 years ago and don't remember a thing. I'll have to take the kids there one of these days. That HB looks cool with the dragon fruit background!
Velosa - that looks like a mighty fine adventure. What cool property to have access to. The kiddos look like they really enjoyed it. And Ben's Kephart looks like it got a good workout.
hasco - looks like you guys had a fun urban adventure. That bow drill is insane. And that GitD Bushcrafter is sweet.
Michael - Bummer about the rain, but looks like you and the turkeys had a blast anyway. You had the makings of a good bow drill set.
Not sure where else I should post this, so it'll go here I guess. Not an entry as I'm already in, but I got away for another camping trip this last weekend so here's another trip report. Hope you all don't mind.
My wife and kids asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday and the only thing I wanted to do was head out camping with them. The Hill People Gear folks were having their Summer Gathering the same weekend so we headed west to meet up with them for a 3 day camping trip. Evan and Scot Hill are the brothers behind HPG and if you're ever looking for a backpack, daypack, pouches, etc, I strongly suggest you hit them up. I've been using a Highlander as my daypack since last year's gathering when I first met them and got to try out some gear and it's awesome. Great folks and great gear.
This year's gathering was near Buzzard Divide (great name) southwest of Glenwood Springs, about a 4.5 hour drive from home and about 1.5 hours from the nearest cell phone service.
The views on the drive out were incredible. This is why I live in Colorado:
Of course, since no one is shooting at them right now, all sorts of wildlife were out and about:
The family surprised me with a cake and I was embarrassed as everyone sang to me. Wasn't expecting that.
Unfortunately, we were in a fire ban area so all our cooking ended up being on the coleman or on the Trangia. Analysis of the Hunter as a camp knife will have to wait for another time as it really only saw duty as a kitchen knife. Here's our standard car camping kitchen setup, and you can kinda see the Hunter in it's place on my hip where it rode all weekend:
We forgot steak knives, so the Hunter cut up everyone's:
The view from our camp:
My family and I (my sister made the trek with us as well) snuck away for a hike. Our camp was on top of a mesa and we found a game trail heading down to the creek below:
Some pretty big game on this trail. Compared to my size 14s:
The prize at the end of the game trail:
You can kind of see the creek down below in this pic. My son decided he wanted to go straight up the hill back to camp rather than follow the trail back up the draw:
Just some of the fun we had. I post this strictly for the Fiddleback content - Hunter in the HJE sheath in view.
Our little town for the last three days:
Prom52 - Looks like a lot of fun in Key West. I went there with my family around 40 years ago and don't remember a thing. I'll have to take the kids there one of these days. That HB looks cool with the dragon fruit background!
Velosa - that looks like a mighty fine adventure. What cool property to have access to. The kiddos look like they really enjoyed it. And Ben's Kephart looks like it got a good workout.
hasco - looks like you guys had a fun urban adventure. That bow drill is insane. And that GitD Bushcrafter is sweet.
Michael - Bummer about the rain, but looks like you and the turkeys had a blast anyway. You had the makings of a good bow drill set.
Not sure where else I should post this, so it'll go here I guess. Not an entry as I'm already in, but I got away for another camping trip this last weekend so here's another trip report. Hope you all don't mind.
My wife and kids asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday and the only thing I wanted to do was head out camping with them. The Hill People Gear folks were having their Summer Gathering the same weekend so we headed west to meet up with them for a 3 day camping trip. Evan and Scot Hill are the brothers behind HPG and if you're ever looking for a backpack, daypack, pouches, etc, I strongly suggest you hit them up. I've been using a Highlander as my daypack since last year's gathering when I first met them and got to try out some gear and it's awesome. Great folks and great gear.
This year's gathering was near Buzzard Divide (great name) southwest of Glenwood Springs, about a 4.5 hour drive from home and about 1.5 hours from the nearest cell phone service.
The views on the drive out were incredible. This is why I live in Colorado:
Of course, since no one is shooting at them right now, all sorts of wildlife were out and about:
The family surprised me with a cake and I was embarrassed as everyone sang to me. Wasn't expecting that.
Unfortunately, we were in a fire ban area so all our cooking ended up being on the coleman or on the Trangia. Analysis of the Hunter as a camp knife will have to wait for another time as it really only saw duty as a kitchen knife. Here's our standard car camping kitchen setup, and you can kinda see the Hunter in it's place on my hip where it rode all weekend:
We forgot steak knives, so the Hunter cut up everyone's:
The view from our camp:
My family and I (my sister made the trek with us as well) snuck away for a hike. Our camp was on top of a mesa and we found a game trail heading down to the creek below:
Some pretty big game on this trail. Compared to my size 14s:
The prize at the end of the game trail:
You can kind of see the creek down below in this pic. My son decided he wanted to go straight up the hill back to camp rather than follow the trail back up the draw:
Just some of the fun we had. I post this strictly for the Fiddleback content - Hunter in the HJE sheath in view.
Our little town for the last three days:
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