This years plan

Truth be told I'm really thinking hard for things to write about on the blog. There is so much to write about, but yet sometimes nothing at all, ideas, thoughts, actions, events...damn where to begin, what to give attention to, tough man, really really tough. Yet tonight I feel I want to write about this years plan...so far at least. Like always I'm going to have to have to tweak the plan as we approach launch time. Huh, as of writing we are down to 42 days, 12 hours and 11 minutes until launch time. Just the anticipation alone is enough to drve me mad. I hate the trip yet love it, but that is for a later entry. The plan this year, which would be sweet if it could happen this way, would be for the General and I to start our on Dora lake on Wednesday and trek twenty miles down river to the Little Minnow site and spend the night. We would then proceed the next day to Bigfork which would only be a trek of twelve miles, where we would spend the night there and wait for the rest of the River Runners to show up for the next mornings launch, which would be at 9:00 AM sharp. We have done it before, we will do it again. Well actually we have been able to make it most of the years we haven't had to wait for Jeremy. More than likely though I won't be able to get away for that long from Em and the kids, so it will probably look like this. Ducky, Digger, Em, and who ever else is going to go on the trip except for the General, Brother John and Mikey, will show up on Thursday at the cabin and start to get gear ready for the trip. We will pack, unpack and repack to make sure our shit is sharp. I will get in touch with the General and make any last minute arrangements that may need to be made. The General, being the go-to-man, will have what we need stashed somewhere at his cabin. After a good meal, a couple of brews, we will hit the hay for an early wake up, 6:00 AM to be precise, ready to start the day. I want us to meet in Bigfork at the landing by 7:00 AM to get all the gear and canoes unloaded, then while the pro's from each canoe stay and load, Ducky and the rest take the trucks back to my mom and dads house. We wil have arranged for them to drop off the General's truck with the big trailer at our pull out spot on the North Busti road. With any luck by the time the truck-runners make it back, we will have the canoes loaded and ready to hit the water. However, I think this year if we feel something is wrong with a load, it should be fixed right away. That may make the diffence between a flip or a safe run to the campsite. Once on the Bigfork we will have to do some paddlling right away so we can make a little time down the river. I'm not saying we paddle like it is a race, I say we get on the river and make some miles so we don't have to push ourselves later in the afternoon to make it to the site at a decent time. That has happened in the past, happened three years ago when we burned the field. In fact it has been that long since we made this run. Our plan that year was to go from Bigfork to the Busti Campsite, which is just down the river past the Highway One rapids. It is a fifteen mile run, not that bad if you make some time, but if you time up into the barge, things slow down a little and before you know it, time is late, you're hungry and there are still four miles to go. But if we make tracks this year at first, we can float some later. Pending we get through the highway one rapids with no problem, we will camp at Busti. Shit people, I'm getting beat, so I am going to hit the hay. I will add tomorrow or sometime this weekend. Until then I will remain Crazy Joe.