Today the General and I had a discussion about this year's trip. We are definitley starting from the Highway One Rapids and canoeing all the way to his land past the second crossing of the river on Highway Six. He just bought 140 acreas with a nice chunck that is river front property.
We talked about two different locations for campsites. This year's is going to be where he establishes a work base for the future construction projects. It is going to be a quick job done basically so we just have a place to put the tents this year. Nevertheless, next year we are going to have a spot that is just killer the way it is set up. We will actually have a stream that we run up to get to the campsite. It is going to be TITS to say the least.
We also talked about who is going on the trip this year. Well, Em and I have broke up so she will no longer be a part of this tradition, however, in a few years I hope to be taking some of my kids on this trip to give them a taste of true camping. Anyway, the crew we have so far this year is The General, Duckie, Crazy Joe and a friend of mine. This person is going to be this year's FNG. That is ok though, it is always awesome to introuduce the joy that is this trip to someone new.
So that is about it, I have provide the tenitive schedule of what we are going to be doing this year on the trip. I will provide more details as the game plan developes.
Until that time arrives, I will remain...Crazy Joe.
The story of The Bigfork River Runners begins back in 1996. It was the end of my first year of higher education and to celebrate I put together a motley crue of friends to take a canoe trip down the Bigfork River on Memorial vacation. The trip was a blast to say the least; since then we have carried on the tradition of canoeing the river every year on Memorial Weekend. Through this blog The Bigfork River Runners will share their stories and pictures from trips past and trips to come.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
The Planning Hath Begun...
Well, the planning for the trip has officailly begun. The General gave me a call the other day and invited me to go check out his property he bought on the river last fall. He picked up 140 acres with a good portion of that right along the riverside. The General is interested in my opinion on where to put in the campsite along the river. We plan to try, and notice I'm leaving room open for some fucking shit to happen this year to prevent us from finishing out trip. Since the Year of The Duck, which was 2004, we have only made completed the trip twice. One year the water level was too low to canoe and, well you know about the cluster-fuck we created last year. Oh, that is right, I never finished last years story. I think I will have to do that here in the near future.
It has been a couple of weeks since I started this entry, and since then I have been able to go and check out the General's land. Let me say that I was throughly impressed with the land that he has purchased. The land has everything a man from the great state of Minnesota could ever want, nicely wooded ares, a decent stream that cuts right though the middle of it, so killer spots for deer food plots and stands, but the best part is that a half mile of the land runs right along the river. Oh how sweet it is.
Well, I'm not sure on the numbers this year. I know we will have four people for sure on the trip. There will be the General, Duckie, Myself and this year's FNG Sandra Bloch. This will be quite interesting since Sandra hasn't really done this type of camping before in her life. Sure she has camped, I mean very few people from our state don't get our at least once in their lifetime, however, I don't think she has ever really roughed it like we do on the canoe trip. I use the term "roughing it" very loosly considering all the crap that we bring with us down the river. This year, as I think I have stated before, we are going to down-size our operation to try and take the bear minimum of what we need. The General is even talking about sleeping on the ground. He is so gun-shy about tipping, ha ha how does it feel fucker, that he doesn't want anything in his canoe that isn't truly essential to our journey. Personally I think he is crazy to not even bring a cot or air-matress. He is no spring chicken and I know that if I don't have something to put between me and the cold, hard, rocky ground, I would be waking up with more pain than just the normal hang-over. Still, once we get the final number set, I will provide a list of the gear that we plan to take this year.
I'm hoping that I can find a few other people to go on the trip with us. If anyone is interested in going on this trip they should get in touch with me via the Jag Bomb comment section of this blog. I would be more than happy to provide some more intimant details about our excursion into God's country. It is also a proven fact that the more people we get to go on this trip the more fun we have in the end. So any takers, let Crazy Joe know.
UPDATE OF THIS POST
5/11/09
I started this post about a month ago, but haven't found the time to complete it with all that is going on in my life right now. We have confirmed five people going on the trip and we are looking for a sixth or even more people to go. My buddy from work, Adam, isn't going to make it for personal reasons. Tracy hasn't given me a go or no go yet. I did contact Dishman about a week ago and he was up for it if he could get off and Kelly had gotten the time off already, so she was in too. Well, Dishman had to bail, but his wife is still coming. So she is the new adition to the list. Duckie suggested that she ask Dishman's sister Jen if she would like to go, but that is still pending. Duckie is going to check on some othe people. I'm going to talk with the General and see if cousin Joshee can make it. I also asked Sandra if she knew of anyone that wanted to go on the trip. However, anyone that reads this blog, if you are interested in going, let me know asap.
I spoke with Duckie today and we started to hammer out the details of the trip and how we are going to "down-size" our gear this year. I'm going to take less clothes this year, but that is about all I'm going to do to downsize. But, I'm going to sit down here one of these nights and make a list of gear that I will need. I"m hoping to get my favorit tent repaired and ready for the trip. If not I'm going to be using "old red", which is a good tent, but nothing like my "spider-tent". But I digress.
As with any year there is a lot to do before the trip takes place. I'm starting to think that the planning is half the damn fun. I think I'm going to get to the list and maybe strat packing some of my clothes and stuff. I'm going to be back a lot more in the upcoming days to keep everyone posted on the Fourteenth Annual Memorial Weekend Canoe Trip with The Bigfork River Runners.
Till next time I will remain...Crazy Joe
It has been a couple of weeks since I started this entry, and since then I have been able to go and check out the General's land. Let me say that I was throughly impressed with the land that he has purchased. The land has everything a man from the great state of Minnesota could ever want, nicely wooded ares, a decent stream that cuts right though the middle of it, so killer spots for deer food plots and stands, but the best part is that a half mile of the land runs right along the river. Oh how sweet it is.
Well, I'm not sure on the numbers this year. I know we will have four people for sure on the trip. There will be the General, Duckie, Myself and this year's FNG Sandra Bloch. This will be quite interesting since Sandra hasn't really done this type of camping before in her life. Sure she has camped, I mean very few people from our state don't get our at least once in their lifetime, however, I don't think she has ever really roughed it like we do on the canoe trip. I use the term "roughing it" very loosly considering all the crap that we bring with us down the river. This year, as I think I have stated before, we are going to down-size our operation to try and take the bear minimum of what we need. The General is even talking about sleeping on the ground. He is so gun-shy about tipping, ha ha how does it feel fucker, that he doesn't want anything in his canoe that isn't truly essential to our journey. Personally I think he is crazy to not even bring a cot or air-matress. He is no spring chicken and I know that if I don't have something to put between me and the cold, hard, rocky ground, I would be waking up with more pain than just the normal hang-over. Still, once we get the final number set, I will provide a list of the gear that we plan to take this year.
I'm hoping that I can find a few other people to go on the trip with us. If anyone is interested in going on this trip they should get in touch with me via the Jag Bomb comment section of this blog. I would be more than happy to provide some more intimant details about our excursion into God's country. It is also a proven fact that the more people we get to go on this trip the more fun we have in the end. So any takers, let Crazy Joe know.
UPDATE OF THIS POST
5/11/09
I started this post about a month ago, but haven't found the time to complete it with all that is going on in my life right now. We have confirmed five people going on the trip and we are looking for a sixth or even more people to go. My buddy from work, Adam, isn't going to make it for personal reasons. Tracy hasn't given me a go or no go yet. I did contact Dishman about a week ago and he was up for it if he could get off and Kelly had gotten the time off already, so she was in too. Well, Dishman had to bail, but his wife is still coming. So she is the new adition to the list. Duckie suggested that she ask Dishman's sister Jen if she would like to go, but that is still pending. Duckie is going to check on some othe people. I'm going to talk with the General and see if cousin Joshee can make it. I also asked Sandra if she knew of anyone that wanted to go on the trip. However, anyone that reads this blog, if you are interested in going, let me know asap.
I spoke with Duckie today and we started to hammer out the details of the trip and how we are going to "down-size" our gear this year. I'm going to take less clothes this year, but that is about all I'm going to do to downsize. But, I'm going to sit down here one of these nights and make a list of gear that I will need. I"m hoping to get my favorit tent repaired and ready for the trip. If not I'm going to be using "old red", which is a good tent, but nothing like my "spider-tent". But I digress.
As with any year there is a lot to do before the trip takes place. I'm starting to think that the planning is half the damn fun. I think I'm going to get to the list and maybe strat packing some of my clothes and stuff. I'm going to be back a lot more in the upcoming days to keep everyone posted on the Fourteenth Annual Memorial Weekend Canoe Trip with The Bigfork River Runners.
Till next time I will remain...Crazy Joe
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