Ocala Part 3

“I guess I joined twice. I'll set this aside on the calendar. Wanted to go last year but circumstances at work were tough. I'm 98.5% a sure bet. Look forward to meeting lots of new faces to match the names!”

“It'll be nice to hike with you again dhutch!”

“Its a great place to bacpack and a great way to get away in winter.


8)”

“Hey treebait..thanks for missing me! School is kicking my butt big time. If I have to stick in one more IV or shove another tube down someone's throat, I may go postal!!

NO ONE gets sick or injured on this trip...I'm on vacation!! Call 911 or sumptin...sheesh!

Tex”

“~sniff~
I missed you too.”

“Hi Tex I can't wait to hike with ya again.


I think it is going to be great to hook up with all you cool catz again!!!


I am very much looking forward to this trip.

8)”

“Me too, CMB! I hope nothing stands in your way Tx!”

“tango dear, it will be good to see you again, esp in your Blue Frogg Toggs ;)”

“Yo Tango.
Check out the High Sierra thread.
I posted some bonus stuff.”

“Was it the funk stuff!? All I could think of was if a dog alerted on your bags and something about Limburger cheese?!
I will be checking out your pics again when you get the captions. What a great trip! I am glad for you guys!”

“dang, did Tango ignore me :(”

“Yeah it was when our bags got checked leaving Fresno.”

“Just kiddin' I had a hockey thread to answer Ewker! I hope there will not be a need for the F.T. but if there is... It will be great to see you again!”

“can't wait for the trip. Now we can almost have three teams.”

“sweet”

“if capt obvious puts down a yes, it will be a
Twenty humanpackMULE Team





am i the only old person that remembers 20 MULE Team borax commercials....sheesh”

“Was that a ad for washing clothes?


8)”

“I don't remember the commercials but we do use the product.”

“Hmm 20 hikers..how about we start from 3 diff locations..hiking into one central location..each team equipped with paintball guns...it's a race to base camp and/or last hiker standing...sounds like some serious MDK factor!!!!”

“Don't get me started!!!!!!!


Now that would kick all forms of ass!!!!


8)”

“Yes, I would kick all forms of your a$$es!!! But just remember I always have one drop shot!”

“am i the only old person that remembers 20 MULE Team borax commercials....sheesh"
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05:49:39 PM
08/22/03


No.

Teams.....hmmmm,,,,given the fact Tango has a one drop shot, I want to be on her team. ;-)”

“Let's watch that "old" talk. Just because my baby daughter(20) can carry more that me, it does not mean that I am old.

TangoYou asked, you beautiful doll: I first mentioned using a tarp in my trip report from last fall. And I mentioned it in my spring trip report, when I switched to a tarp after the first few days. Oh, also, I used just a tarp for Ocala NF-2.”

“In Lekiball it is prefectly acceptable to use a corked trekking pole as your bat.”

“Hey Nowslimmer you are not old dude.

too me old is when you can't walk or do things for yourslef and people have to do everything for you.

You got along way to go my friend so keep the chin up and hike!”

“NS, Well how unobservant of me.”

“Say, anyone got any preferred dates for the recon hike this November?”

“Right now Saturday the 15th looks good for me. I'm flexy though. Is this a one nighter?

I've never been on the trail north of Salt Springs so this should be fun.”

“Any weekend is fine with me, I'd love to come along. :-)”

“Offhand, I'm thinking of it as an overnighter.”

“Hmmm....the 15th is Treebait's birthday. Have to see about that one.”

“Hmm this could go two ways:

1. Honey I can think of nothing better for my birthday then spending time with you in the outdoors.

2. Yeah, that's what I want to do for my special day. Sit next to Artex and Big Coop eating "birthday" ramen.”

“I may not be home from GSMNP. How 'bout in December?”

“HPM knows how many birthdays, anniversaries, and other important days I have sacrificed in the name of hiking and Scouting for him. Forget it, boys.”

“Looks like Big Coop's Option 2 is in effect!”

“The den mother has spoken.”

“I just got the word today that my boss said I can have the days off with pay!

Oh Ya!!!!!!


8)”

“I got 5 weeks of vacation saved up. I wanna go !!

:p”

“MDS, you can do the entire Florida Trail.”

“Is this section north or south of the section we did last year?”

“well i actually think i can make this one. i'm still thinking on the tc3 trip.”

“This will be the northernmost section of the trail in Ocala so it's north of the hike last year which was actually south of the hike the year before.

These TT hikes will have covered all but the bottom 8 (or so) miles from Clearwater Lake to Alexander Springs.”

“I hope there is going to be some miles on this trip.

I am so pumped.

8)”

“I'm trying to find out about nice swimming holes along the trail for this one.

It was a blast going for a dip after a day of hiking on Ocala 1.”

“It looks like we'll hike near lake Delacey, but I think there's a developed campsite there, so maybe not the best swimmin' hole/camspsite.”

“Can one of yall hook us up with a link to get a map for this section?

Thanks”

“WD

I got a nice one from the ranger station on my way into the forest a couple of years ago. Not sure if they ship them.

http://www.southernregion.fs.fed.us/florida/contact/index.shtml

I called up there this morning trying to get an update on trail conditions but they were all in a big meeting. I will probably call them again this afternoon. I will ask if they ship maps to people.

HPM, Coop any of you guys know if the forest would be doable this weekend? I know the bugs would still be bad. Would all the trails be under water?

My son wants to go backpacking this weekend but he is in school so we are limited to Florida. Every thing down here is flooded.”

“It'll be a wading experience. It frequently is in February too, if the rains are normal. Just take lots of socks and you should be fine.
We got our maps from the Florida trail society, but the forestry service decent maps too.”

“Treebait is thinking of Osceola National Forest to the north.

Ocala should be just fine about now. There will be some wet spots but nothing major that I know of.

Now Osceola on the other hand should be pretty wet and muddy.”

“WD (and everyone else)

I can make some color copies of the FTA maps and send them to you for wahtever it costs to copy them. I think it was $2 last time.

Post or email me iffin y'all want them.”