A weeks worth of hiking!

“Our management retreat/backpacking trip is scheduled for the 1st to the 4th of Feb (Sun to Wed). We will be in the Hurricane Wilderness in the Ozarks.

Then I come home, clean up the gear, throw it back into the car and on to Ocala. Weeks worth of backpacking and I get paid for it.

Don't have to burn an extra vacation day now b/c we are hiking on Sunday and I get to comp it.

I love this company........today.”

“U suck and I wanna go to. That is not fair! I am holding a protest.”

“chili, I'd watch her protest. Spending the evening on your back in the cotton fields (boy that has a new meaning with the new handle) in August is a bit different than being stuck out there in February.....alone.”

“cotton, puke on him. that will learn him!!!


ps, chili you suck for not taking cottonsocks!”

“WTF? How are you getting paid to backpack Chili? I want a job like that.”

“We have semi annual managment retreats. As most of the Director level and above people here backpack, we go once or twice a year. I usually plan out the locations and organize the trip. As it is a "work" function, we dont have to take vacation days for it.”

“Dub, I think what he's saying is graduate from college, graduate from law school, work as a practicing attorny for about 10 years, leave law and join the corporate world, work your way up and then ***presto*** vacation free backpacking.”

“That about sums it up, dayhiker.


It doesn't hurt to be a bull$hit artist either.”

“That never hurts.”

“Chili, I'll be thinking about you and that wonderful spot on the earth. I know you'll have fun. Hike on, brother.”

“that is a sweet deal!”

“Do you have your axe?”

“On the first trip I took with the mgt team, I didn't take anything to use in preparing an after dinner cordial seeing as how we are the most conservative company on earth.

Last trip I took, I am standing by one of the senior level officers on the first day of the trip, he whips out a flask of brandy and says "want a hit". I figured I was on the "in crowd list" after that.”

“chili, a while back you reminded me that once the box is open it, you can never close it again. They have no idea what they've started.”

“Your company doesn't need a high level corporate tax guy do they?”

“Well, the menu just came out for our company trip.

Day one Dinner

Steak
Baked Potatoes
French Bread
Mushrooms & Onions
Green beans
Peanut Butter Cookies

Day two

Breakfast
Egg Burritos
Canadian Bacon

Lunch on our own


Dinner
Soup
Red Beans & RIce
Pork Tenderlion
French Bread
Apple Cobbler


Day three

Breakfast
Pancakes
Pork Links

Lunch on our own

Dinner
Soup
Pasta
Tomato Sauce
Italian Sauage
French Bread
Tollhouse Bars


Day four

Oatmeal

Hike out.

These things tend to be more like culinary expeditions.”

“They airlifting in all that food?”

“Unfortunately, no.

Looks like I get to play pack mule.”

“Ugh. Well, I guess some things are worth it...”

“It's bad enough he tells us about his week of hiking but now he revives the thread to rub our nose in it. How are you keeping pork edible by Day Three?”

“I may show up uninvited just to eat. Did you guys get wet Saturday night?”

“That's digging a bit deep in their personal life isn't it Arky?”

“You rang?”

“Where's the wine list?”

“LOL. Just drop by Arky, I am sure we will have plenty.

Dayhiker, we will freeze it, wrap it in a towel or fleece and keep it out of direct sunlight. But on other hand, we can expect temps to remain cold. This past weekend, the water seeps were still frozen over despite the 55 degree temp. Ice shouldn't be in short supply.

Arky, no. We were high and dry. I rigged a 10 by 10 Tyvek tarp and we were warm and toasty. We stacked wood under it before the rain and had plenty of room to sit. I rigged a log over the fire to keep it dry and as it burned through, we repositioned.

Sort of like the rock oven dayhiker built to cook the pizza in.”

“gotcha!

So Arky was talking about the weather?”

“You're a bigger pervert than me Dayhiker. That's what I like about you.

Wish I could have made it Saturday Chili but when my wife heard it was going to rain it was off.”

“I understand. It rained steady from about 5 in the afternoon until 5 the next morning.

I have the exact directions to Chancel Spur and I will send them in an email. We had to wade Buck Branch and damn! that water was cold.”

“Arky, I found the camel toe song to the tune of Kokomo. Pretty funny.”

“arky, you have mail”

“Let me know when & where you'll be & I will see about getting some beer packed in. You shouldn't waste all that good food with no beer.”

“Now that sounds like good eating!!!


8)”