Wild Horses Trip Cut Short!

“,.. pictures to come from Calmwater3, StormBringer (the artist formerly known as 2poops), and ynamiynami.

1/23/04
I skipped out on my poor mom's birthday,.. eh, I guess hiking's more important. Anyway, was supposed to get picked up by Calmwater at my house by 6pm. Got home from work late at 5:45 and had to rush around and pack only to realize that 6pm to John, in reality, means at least 7pm,.. so I slowed down. He arrived at 6:54pm.

On the way through Delaware (which, by the way, has it's own unique smell) we stopped at a McDonald's and were the only 2 caucasian people in the restaurant out of about 50 people - literally. Now, I'm FAR from a prejudice person, but we felt a little out of place, especially when a huge girl on girl gang fight broke out. Needless to say, we went to a different McDonald's.

Arrived at Bayside Campsite around 10:30pm and met up with 2poops who had already set up car camp for the night. We were the only 3 idiots on the entire island due to it being in the middle of January, on the beach, and snowing. After setting up camp, we took a walk to the beach - 2poops first experience with the ocean. It was extremely relaxing to hear the ocean waves crashing in the background, especially because the only other sound we could hear was our footsteps and the occasional fart by 2poops.

Got back to camp around 1am,.. this is where the real fun began. Calmwater tied on such a load with his wine and whiskey that he swore his shoelaces were glowing red and it was because God was pissed at him. Riiiiiight. Poops and I finally talked him into going to bed around 3:30am or so (actually Scott did, I was just instigating John).

1/24/04
I woke up first around 7am and took a walk across camp to the bay for a morning stroll. Went back to the campsite and cooked up some breakfast. Poops woke around 8am and John around 8:30am (still drunk). Broke down camp and met ynamiynami at the visitor's center around 9am. We saw a few wild ponies on the side of the road, which was pretty neat. There was a rather large watch for a snow Noreaster headed in the direction we'd be driving home tomorrow, so me and Calmwater decided to only do a dayhike and head home after ynami and scoops got to their destined camping area.

The beach hike was awesome. It was really cold and extremely windy and was off and on snowing pretty much all day. It seemed to be on our side though because the wind was blowing against our backs and not our faces. We had a lot of fun on the hike. CW and I see-sawed on a huge piece of driftwood (see pics) and had a "who-could-knock-who-off-first" competition and of course I kept winning until we both eventually fell on our @$$eS,.. thank God no cameras were around for that one. My damn arm still hurts, but it was pretty damn fun! I think 2scoops was the only one who didn't fall that day (ynami bein the first to go,.. that'll teach ya for hikin backwards, ya freak! :P ) A lot of fun pics were taken by everyone (except me since my digi was busted) which I'm sure they'll all post once they get a chance (cough, cough, soon?). Oh, Maple, we brought you back some seashells : )

Here's the fun part,.. 2scoops decided that after his AT thru-hike, that he's going to have a Lord of the Rings party at his house where we'll all watch all 3 extended versions back-to-back following while chugging some wine and spirits. Catch is: everyone has to dress up like a LOTR character to attend : ) We've nominated a few TTer's to be certain characters:

2scoops= Gollum (he does perfect actions)
Calmwater= Frodo
ScorchFire= Arwen (the only chic without blonde hair)
Pennsy= my love, Aragorn
Stikmon= Gandolf (obviously)
Legolas= Ice Tea (he's the only young pretty boy we have on TT).
Dub= Sam
Mapleleaf= Eowyn (well, you'll have to dye your hair back blonde for this part, babes).
Treebeard= Treebeard
bacpac= Sauron (the embodiment of evil).

If anyone else has any suggestions, just post em : )

Anyway, back to the topic at hand,...
Arrived at Pine Tree camping area around 2:30pm when the snow really started to kick up. CW and I stayed around til 3pm and took a breather before we headed back to the visitor's center.

NOTE: too cute for ynami and poops to have the same tent.

On the hike back to the visitor's center, the temp was dropping and the wind was really whipping us in the face along with the snow. It was damn awful. On top of that, my sugar started to really drop (I'm hypoglycemic) so after about an hour and a half, we hitchhiked back with a couple of stoned locals and almost flipped over in their Bronco while trying to get out of a sand ditch. That was fun.

On the way out off the island, we were greeted by some ponies who decided to stick their heads in our windows and allow us to pet them. I think they were just searching for food, but it was pretty damn cool. Wild ponies my @$$! They were tame as hell.

Oh yea, I finally got the chance to stop at REI on the way home and the damn store was closed :( CW got a picture of me pouting under the REI-CLOSED sign. EMS was our backup plan. At least that was open.

All in all, a great time. I can never seem to keep my trip reports to a minimum because there's always too much I want to write about. In sum, the scenery was awesome and the company great as always. It was so nice to meet you, ynami, and I hope we can hike again soon! Can't wait to see the pics from everyone. Poops and YY: hope you had a good time camping and the weather didn't get too harsh. Fill us in with the rest of the trip report when you get back and hope you had a safe drive back : )”

“Tom Terrific, where the heck were ya, ya freak!?”

“great report! thanks”

“glad you made it home
scoops staying till sunday?”

“Yep, him and ynami are dueling it out with the weather. ynami is driving back South, so he should be okay. Poops is coming to your house right from the island, so hopefully the weather will be okay... although it doesn't sound promising!”

“it would've been more fun if me and maple would've been there. LOL

Great report!!”

“Cool report, Scorchy! Gotta love drunks, though. Without them, trip reports wouldn't be as much fun. Sounds neat about the so-called "wild" ponies. Where exactly is this place?”

“LOL @ Gem!

Yea, we had a blast, even though it was cut a day short.

Assateague Island is right off the coast of Maryland, not too far past the border of Delaware,.. off route 611.”

“Sounds like a fun weekend Scorch. How cold was it down there? We had a pretty cold weekend here with wind and single numbers in the mountains during the day. I'm assuming you didn't see too many hikers down there in Jan.”

“Wish I'd made it, always wanted to see what it was like on the beach while snow was falling. I bet the wind was COLD though.

glad yall made it back safe.”

“rich- it was pretty cold. Probably around 20 or so degrees when we left, but the wind chill was outstanding.... not sure what it was supposed to feel with the wind chill, but it felt awful. No, no other hikers but us fools were there!

Roam- you missed out :P”

“thanks for the pics. Is that a hand holding moment in photo 7?

See how rumors get started?”

“hand holding??? no, i'm taken!”

“You sound like a real riot on trips Scrotchy. Hope to make one of your adventures, er, TRIPS someday.”

“Nigal, come to Dolly Sods in June!”

“nice parkas”

“gotta love down”

“Is excessive drinking common on these trips?”

“pretty much, yea.”

“maple, did u still want a seashell?”

“When I first looked at the title, it looked like wild horses had cut your trip short, LOL

Kinda like the opposite of "wild horses couldn't drag me away..." <G>




His manager sat in the office alone
staring at the numbers on the telephone
wondering how a man could send a child actor
to visit in the land of the wind chill factor.

"Sabu Visits The Twin Cities Alone"
John Prine
Bruised Orange (1978)
”

“Great trip report!


I like the picture with the pony.

8)”

“"6pm to John, in reality, means at least 7pm,.. so I slowed down. He arrived at 6:54pm."
ummmm Traffic

I had a good time, it was cool to see the beach in the winter, the ponies were a little more friendly than I expected although it was pretty neat, it would also be an excellent place to paddle.”

“Are your shoelaces still glowing?”

“Yep”

“ummmm Traffic

You knew it was rush hour, you've been at my house before at that time (normally an hour later for the same reasons) for other trips,.. so you shoulda left earlier :P

I quote, "Don't be late, John."
Respone, "I'm not gonna be late."

I hear that damn line every trip we are on together, ha!”

“Well in Allentown it was almost stopped, it wasn't that bad the other times, so this time I wouldn't have been as late, if not for that”

“The other time you were an hour and a HALF late...”

“hey Calmwater - how you doing? :)”

“I was checking to make sure I didn't forget anything.......the other times weren't to bad....a few minutes maybe”

“Well the one trip that you were "on time" for was only 15-20 minutes late. The rest was a half hour or more.”

“Hey Twinks, I'm doing ok, how are you? Haven't seen you in a while, When you gonna come on a hike?”

“half hour!! no way, I was not that late on the other trips, just those 2.”

“YES WAY!!!

Nockamixon: 1/2 hr.
World's End: 1/2 hr... whereby you mentioned that you are always a half hour behind schedule.
Hawk Mt: that was the 15-20 min. one.
Maryland: 1 and a half hours
Assateague: 1 hour
Pine Barrens: 1/2 hr.

i think that's it?”

“I wasn't a half hour late at worlds end, and there's many witnesses”

“Yes you were. We were supposed to meet at 8:30, you rolled in at 9am. YOU SAID you are always running a half hour late.
BRING THE WITNESSES ON!!”

“I wish I coulda come up for that. I had to work. Maybe we can schedule another one for later this year.. like Marchish. It'd be a good chance for me and Joe to get a lil trail time before we hit the AT.”

“locolala, sounds good, let me know what weekend is best for u and i'll try and make it.”

“I'll talk to joe and we'll work something out. He gets in on March 18th, so maybe that weekend or the next?”

“okay, let me know for sure. email me at the email on my profile, or post it on this thread when u find out :)”

“Scrotchy, I've been wanting to get down there to the Sods for a while now. How many people do you think will be on the trip? 20? 30?”

“That was a damn cold trip back to the car sunday morning too :o) brrrrr. Very glad to get back to the car.”

“"thanks for the pics. Is that a hand holding moment in photo 7?

See how rumors get started?"
Ivygal
10:12:05 AM
01/25/04


Sure looks like it to me.
Ain't that sweet???? MOOOOOHAHAHAHA
Ol' 2poops needs to get some lovin' worse than any guy I've met.
Help him out there Scorchy! ;-)”

“Nigal, don't know how many total will come, it's still a ways off, but it's up on the trips page if you wanna take a look.

SS, NO! I'm done with guys these days, LOL. Staying single for a WHIIIIIILE.

I added Calmwater's and ynami's pictures to my webshots album:

Assateague Island Pictures”

“Where was I?

I understand it was cold down by the sea, huh?

I was a maybe......

The horses are friendly?
Yeah, they're bums!”

“Maybe, schmaybe, ya bum!”

“Hey, my wife was home Friday and then off again Sunday to Colorado for business.

Saturday evening we were havin' sushi and saki while the icy wind was howlin' downy ocean.

Did you guys backpack south on the beach?
Was it windy enough?

Scorch, it looks like you are keepin' score on your buddy calmwater......women!”

“Yea Scorch, nag nag nag. I showed up late at Worlds End in case you're keeping score.”