Jason Bleazard <dml@bleazard.net> wrote:
: On November 26, 2004 08:17 pm, jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
:> - Shooting ranges?
: I'd be up for that, as long as it was at an organized range. It's permissible
: to just go out and set up targets anywhere on public land out west, but when
: I'm going with people I've never been shooting with, I prefer to take them to
: a range first. Just me.
Yep, shooting is definitely one of those "safety first" sports; a small
lapse in judgement or concentration can have serious consequences.
:> At this point, I kind of like the
:> challenge of camping for the entire event supported just by what I
:> can carry on my back.
: We did some camping in British Columbia a few years back using a rental
: Durango and whatever equipment we could take with us on the airline. It
: worked out pretty well, although we did have to take the smaller tent.
: Obviously we had to buy all of our propane and fire starters locally once we
: got there. We had a small stove burner that sat on top of the propane
: bottle. No problem taking just the stove on the plane when it was new, but
: once it had been used and it had been exposed to propane, they wouldn't let
: it back on as there might have still been some residue on it. We had to mail
: our stove back home :-P.
Heh! Propane residue - I love it! :-)
Yeah, I remember that trip, now that you mention it. (Well, I don't
remember the trip itself, I remember when you went on it...) :-) That
pretty much proves it can be done anyway. :-)
:> I haven't done much camping so I probably don't have an accurate
:> mental picture, but I am picturing any place that would have hookups
:> to look sort of like a mobile home park, lots of pavement, trailers
:> packed in there, screaming kids... :-)
: Not necessarily, although it can happen. This is part of the reason I'm
: thinking we need to get all of us together in a group, so we push other
: people's screaming kids out of the campground as much as possible.
: The place we lived during September 2003 was quite pleasant. A lot of the RV
: crowd are seniors, and they tend to be pretty quiet.
Unlike the DML. ;-) Hopefully we won't get kicked out. :-)
It would be nice to find a location that would also be as non-annoying
as possible for the other campers. (We'll call them "innocent bystanders")
;-)
What would be really cool is if we could get away from an organized
campground altogether, or find one that is spread out over many acres
with private sites far enough from other people that we won't be
running across them. What I think would be ideal, from that
perspective is to have the base camp just be on public land somewhere.
Unfortunately, that would result in no amenities like access to a
shower, RV hookups for you and something like a toilet and running
water would be kinda nice too. :-) I suppose a compromise might
be a campground with a private site large enough for the entire
group, which has an RV hookup, and a shower/restroom not too far
away, perhaps backed up to public land which we could use for our
rowdy recreational activities. :-) Oh and of course, the public
land would have to have nice topography, mountains and waterfalls,
birds that land on your shoulder, chipmunks that eat out of your
hand, and rivers flowing with gold. What? :-)
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