No Waterfall Left Behind! (The Ithaca TR )

“First thing that goes is your watchamacallit and the second thing that goes is your other watchamacallit, and then all the other watchamacallits follow suit.”

“Gro,
Anytime you need anything from there give me a yell. there is one 5 minutes down the road from me. Great meeting you and philly is still on top..”

“Yes, it looks like Rollins and Millwood have woken up, midway through the season. Great game last night! Ricky Ledee (Yankees cast-off) was on fire!”

“you shoulda came outta your tent to partyyyy : )~"
ScorchFire
09:02:26 AM
07/22/04

LOOK WHO'S TALKIN!!!!!!
DORK!”

“it may have saved his life by staying in the tent.

he was a better person then us.

who wwas the 4 of us?
Maple
scorch
?
?”

“Dunno, I was in my tent sleeping, ... or trying to.”

“So Maple and scorch were the bad girls up partying, screaming, and laughing till the wee hours of the morning keeping everone else up?

Bad girls! Bad!

Ha Ha, the very best thing to do is go near their tent at daylite and make LOTS and LOTS of noise!”

“Ha, Maple's head resembled the Liberty Bell in the morning. It was ringing loud and clear until it cracked.”

“oh god. i looked so bad the next morn. hey i felt ok after my coffee. scorch was the slacker and needed a nap LOL. i went swimming after the hike. so glad i did.
i really cant wait to go bad.”

“i really cant wait to go bad

LOL

ment to say, cant wait to go back!”

“You meant what you said, don't try to worm your way out of it!”

“yeah, we all heard ya!

But how much worse can pottymouth get?”

“Don't ask. We may not want to know.”

“Hey snafu!!

It was great meeting you.

That apple wood was dang near impossible to split, but it would burn all night long.......kinda like those two wild women........

"So Maple and scorch were the bad girls up partying, screaming, and laughing till the wee hours of the morning keeping everone else up?"”

“My son's loud voice was right in there.”

“Paul told me I was a great cook. The kid's got brains!”

“He's also a brown-nosing suck-up.”

“so it was
maple
scorch
paul
phantonsoul?

I think I remeber them.
the boys were just as bad as us two girls.”

“Paul can pick a mean guitar, too?”

“paul or his son?

we had music?”

“oh boy, here we go....”

“Where? Where are we going? Back to Ithaca?”

“no not till i am out of the rehab”

“Gawd, then we'll never get back there!”

“What a trip. Maple ends up in rehab, I end up in prison, what else?”

“I ended up back at work, that's what else!”

“The stop at Wendy's on the way out, ... yes, a Wendy's burger tasted like crap after all that good food we ingested Saturday night! I made the same mistake in Owego.”

“me and maple? the bad girls? pssh.”

“Well, I sure as hell wasn't a bad girl...”

“I do want to go back to the land of waterfalls.
My son had an epiphany after his near death experience last Thursday, and quit his job at the garden center when he got back. He has a job lined up at a store that sells jewelry. I must say I am quite relieved that he will not be coming into contact with machinery or combustible fuels”

“near death experience? what happened??”

“the kid tried to get the fire going with a little white gas or something like that and the flame went back up the stream causing him to drop the can.

Big flames ensued.

Geo saved teh day with a fire extinguisher.

Boy was lucky not to have burned his clothes and hair.”

“Our man Geo!!!

Can't say I've ever tagged along an extinguisher to camp!”

“This was on Thursday?? Wow....”

“hey we were there with the ice water!




Well, I sure as hell wasn't a bad girl..."
PhantomSoul
06:44:53 PM
07/22/04

LMFAO!!”

“Made a lightning trip to Vienna,
Eating choc’late cake in a bag.
The newspapers said,
She’s gone to his head,
They look just like two Gurus in a drag.
Christ! You know it ain’t easy,”

“Thanks for putting words in my mouth Roam"short version"
Instead of buying Geobeet a can of white gas, that I had to borrow for the cooking portion of the trip, I should've replaced the firextinguisher, Sorry”

“Well I've decided to finally post a trip report. I admit, I was a little lazy. My report shouldn't be too long since I wasn't around too much for Thursday and Sunday.

Friday I worked until about 4:30PM. Shep rolled over to mi casa around 5-ish or so and we got directions and I quickly scarfed some food down my throat and we left. Took us about 4 hours to get to the Treman Campground, which, by the way, was really nice... I especially enjoyed the "NO WADING" sign as we drove over a small overflowing bridge. By this time poor Shep was exhausted from his ride from GA to NY and we both just wanted to get there, set up camp and relax.

We were greeted by a bunch of drunken hugs and handshakes and it was off to a great start! I decided to have a couple drinks before setting up camp and that's just what I did. The night was full of laughter and fun stories. After killing a bottle of Aftershock, me, Mapleleaf, PhantomSoul, and lumberzac decided it was well overdue for a skinny dip. We started walking away from camp to the water and before we were even halfway there, 2 huge flashlights were shone into our eyes telling us to go back to our tents. Granted it was 2:30AM, but we "were just taking a walk!" Whatta bunch of pansy party poopers.

Went to bed approximately 3:30AM.

Woke up around 7AM to Pennsy's loud mouth ; ) Got a late start to do the Taughannock Falls hike, but since it was only 3/4 of a mile long, it didn't really matter. Mapleleaf's knee was acting up, as well as my leg, so I decided that would be the only hiking I'd do that weekend. The scenery was absolutely breathtaking (as you can tell from the pictures). Very, very dramatic imagery and well worth suffering the leg pain! I definitely would love to come back to this area and hike more trails.

After a long night of partying the night before, I decided to skip out on swimming since I was still quite hungover and my leg was acting up from the walk. The rest of the crew went swimming and me and Shep hung back to catch some zzz's for the night of partying ahead of us.

That night was a blast.... the cookoff was excellent and it was really fun watching everyone prepare. I've never been fed so well while camping!!! Although everyone's dish was absolutely amazing, I was very partial to Tango's spicey pasta recipe... which by the way, I still need directions to make! Congrats to Mr. Bobo who won with his yummy salmon dish. He later celebrated by falling backwards out of his chair.

Saturday night was also filled with fun times and great stories around the fire.

This was by far the largest camping trip I've ever been on, and even though I'm partial to small groups, this was an absolute blast. I met so many awesome people that I would love to go backpacking with and hope to soon. The Canadian cracks me up; Gremlin, I'd love to go backpacking with you sometime!

Unfortunately, Shep and I had to leave Sunday morning at 7am due to him having work Monday morning and having a 16 hour drive ahead of him. I didn't want to wake anyone up before leaving, so I said my goodbyes to the TTers that were awake and quietly crept out of camp and back home.

Great weekend, lots of memories. Everyone's pictures are amazing and thanks for a wonderful time.”

“scorchfire, since you were on the injured list,you should have been on the field trip to the Ithaca Mall with my daughter to get a french tip, Pedi/Mani

Trail time=Mall time in teenage minds”

“Hahaha... well I did still enjoy the 3/4 mile walk to the big guy.”

“I "tricked" and bribed my kids to go the 3/4 mile to the Taugh-fall. Then drove up to the overlook for another view, then it was off to the mall”

“Malls are a teenage girl's best friend.”

“true, for sure. I hate those places, malls are from the debbil.


Hey scorch, how's the leg, any better?”

“still swollen but doesn't hurt as much. i am not covered with health insurance until august 1st, so i gotta hold out a few more days before i get the fluid drained.”

“sooooo, advil?”

“All TTer's that were on the Ithaca trip. I have in my possession the I (heart) NY t-shirt that I described to you when Bobo won the cook-off. Now, as I explained, I would still like to pass around through the mail so everyone can sign it. Crash Bang signed it before he left. Maple and I, along with the little Landstalker are going to and then send it someone. I would like to have Bobo wind up with it and bring it to the next cook-off. So, someone send me an address at random and I will send it along. Then, we can pass it down the line, Bobo-bound!”

“I am back among the working class! My 'puter is still capoot! That totally sucks!

My pics will have to wait. I loved reading all the other trip reports and about all the goings on I knew nothing about!!!

For anyone who wants the spice it is called Everglades seasoning and is only available in the south. If you really want some email me and I will send you your very own bottle.

No one mentioned the human GPS...which was PhantomSoul. He got us all around Ithaca and to most of the falls.

Glad to finally meet all the Nor'easters!!

Shep- You are awarded the farthest single day drive!

Scorchie- You hound!

SirPete and Lady Jen- What a lovely couple, I really enjoyed meeting you guys!

Bobo, you're lucky someone said who you were when you ran up to me, I almost put you out of commission for the weekend! Congrats again...I am so glad you are a humble winner! HA HA

Trees thanks again for a wonderful trip.

Winter and Lyndi I am so glad I finally met you both!

Roam and Helinka- Too Cool!

Snafu- It was great to meet and hike with you. Hope your footprint rock will bring back fun memories!

WK- I totally love your sense of humor!

Pens- You got several complements out of me over the weekend...How'd you do that? Kick butt hikin' with you again!

Geo- Did we talk hockey? Not enough!!! I very much enjoyed meeting your family-tell my long lost Sis "Hi" from me.

MarkO, Jackcanine, Gremlin, and the rest I didn't have enough time to really socialize--you all must come to Ocala!”

“wondered where you were Tango, hope you had a nice trip back, didn't get to try your dish at Ithaca, but I sprinkled some of your spice on my pasta(broccoli, garlic, basil, summer squash) this evening, Yum. Thank-you”

“Yes, Tango. WS reminded to that I want to thank you for the sample. I used it on some peppers and mushrooms that I sauteed tonight as well as the chicken that went with it. Delicious! I will probably negotiate a truck load with you.”

“Tango! I left your seasoning in Shep's car when he dropped me off : (

And I still need the recipe for the spicey pasta! Pweeze.”