Sodsfest 2004: Dolly Sods in June

“go ahead and sign up as a maybe nashhiker, that way you'll get the emails that are gonna start soon. We're just getting serious about route planning.

Theres a group limit of 8 and a "trail limit" of 24 (not sure what that really means, but ok). I'm guessing that some of the maybes won't make it, but you never know. I'm sure we'll manage something, just have to act like we're not all together. Usually these group tips don't necessarily hike together anyway.”

“I'd like to do it. Never hiked in WVA. Never really did anything in WVA except drive through it and now I am only a few hours away being in DC. So it will be fun to do and meet some TTers. So far I have only met two.”

“NVhiker, i've never been to WV either, so we'll get de-virginized together : )”

“oh my!

hey, i havn't either....”

“a virgin fest!”

“Hmmmmm, can the old man of the mountains watch this virgin hoedown?

nashvillehiker, did you end up in Hyattsville?

Dolly Sods should be a real zoo in June.

The northern parts look good......less traffic.”

“hoedown, muahahahahahahaha, who you callin a hoe?”

“Ha ha, I'm just an old rake! >;^]”

“I like the wheel barrow”

“I wasn't talkin' about the garden variety "rake".......ya little _______!”

“KEEP IT UP, DARKO!

Thanks for the maps, Roam.”

“cool, no prob. let me know what ya think about my proposed routeing.”

“Haven't had a chance to page through it... will do it tonight after (sigh) American Idol.”

“oh geez”

“Rake;

An immoral or dissolute person; a libertine”

“For gawd's sake scorchie, don't go around telling MarkO to keep it up!”

“Beat it, Geo!”

“I'm not beating anything. If you want to keep it up, beat it yourself. Damn prevert!”

“Maybe if Geo shows up we should have an air-cast with us just in case.”

“Roam, just got your package today. I haven't looked at your proposed route in detail but it seems okay. Did you want to do that route over Saturday and Sunday or Fri-Sun? I would still like to dayhike Red Creek on Friday and car camp somewhere that night while we wait on others to arrive. We can setup Goliath (my 10 person tent) to mark our campsite Friday during the day. If we leave a small radio playing in it all day no one will camp near us...eheheh, car camping is so kooool!

As for the route...Plan away Roam! I've seen the Sods before several times. Plus my family owns a camp nearby so it's not a big deal for me to just go when I want. So Roam, you are the official route planner! Since you'll be coming from Fla and wont' get to see it as much...design the route to go where you wanna go.”

“LOL @ MarkO.


thats a good one. thats why I love you two nuts!”

“route looks fine to me too, roam!”

“mapleleaf, don't talk like that!

Don't you have some reason or other to kick my ass?”

“Ok I'll look at it in more detail then.

Was thinking of a short hike in on Friday night then a more full day Saturday and hiking out on Sunday, try to get back to the trailhead around noonish?”

“I'd like to make this my first real backpacking trip. I'm a 23 year old college grad with mountains of immaturity and lots of love for fun. If anyone would like to talk with me about being prepared for a first trip, I'd really appreciate it! My email is smitty@insonne.com and my AIM is psmitty7373. Thanks!”

“If you're serious and want to join on this trip, my AIM name is ScorchFire. Feel free to IM me anytime. I'm also 23 and I've learned quite a bit re: backpacking from being on this website in the past year.”

“Looks like MarkO is a Maybe but Tom Terrific is a Yes. I don't know if we can have those 2 on the same trail together... one must stay back!! ; )”

“Didn't you ever see Timecop? As long as they don't occupy the same space it's okay.”

“maybe thats what they are trying to avoid, and argueing about which one gets to go on this trip.”

“I don't know man. Well, I already met TT, so it's time to meet that darko marko.”

“so are most folks arriving sometime on Friday? I'm assuming that a short hike in of Friday night, hopefully before dark, say 1.5 or 2.0 miles to a campsite will be ok with folks.”

“I'll prob get there sometime Fri night after work.”

“Shucks, I could be there Thursday night!

Has anyone decided where we start.........meet up?”

“workin on it MarkO.

I may be a Thursday arrival as well.”

“Thurs? Not me... got work.”

“Get some, Scorchie !”

“thats cool Scorch.

I'm looking at two separate entry points, one for the Thursday people, (there may be two or three of us) and we'll hook up with the Friday folks at the Fri night campsite.”

“I'm hip!!”

“Roam Around, I am waiting to see the route before I switch to a "for sure". If you are taking votes, I would arrive on Thursday.”

“MarkO is the TT superman. You can't see MarkO and TomTerrific at the same time, unless you want to be his Lois Lane, Scorch. Preferably a psychotic Margot Kidder version.”

“Scorch better be careful of his x-ray vision.”

“X-ray vision won't help me against those EVIL EYES ! ! ! ! !

Superman???

Able to leap tall tents in a single bound!

Louder mouth than a speeding locomotive.......did someone say "loco"?

Faster than a titmouse.”

“wow, titmice! I always just called them A cups.”

“LMAO


I don't have evil eyes, MarkO.
Be careful,.. I'm watching you....

”

“Private eyes, they're watching me, they see my evvvvery move
Watching me watching me watching me.

Warning cross thread posting ahead:

Any Hall and Oates on that worst songs list?”

“My dad loved Hall & Oats. Had to listen to that stuff while I was a kid.”

“So listening to Hall & Oats makes one evil. Hmmmmm, interesting.”

“She's just building an insanity defense in case she ever gets medieval on someone.”

“Like MarkO?”

“That's a good start.”