You mammoth cave people...

“yea, this trip needed one more thread”

“#&%!$! I need to pack.”

“get your ass in gear!”

“litterly...


I dont want to have to post pics of your bare butt!”

“do it! do it!”

“I will if I see his bare butt! (Please scott, don't encourage me...Ive already seen stovie... LOL!)”

“Hey! My bare butt has already been posted!”

“You people need to quit distracting me. My hour lunch is over now >:(

I really dont want to add anotehr half hour too it.”

“Hahahaha....I thought this thread was about giant people living in caves.......”

“Hey, as soon as one of you gets home, please let us know how the trip was....that was some pretty nasty weather that rolled through last night and we're hoping everyone is okay.”

“it was just windy. had a short thunderstorm. that was it.




on another note



ND DID TOO WIN! LIARS!




sass, thanks for the massage ;-) (let the innuendo remarks begin)

this was a trip with epic proportions. ill let one of you moes that can post while i work do the trip report. i need to unpack.”

“In. Hi. It was great :)”

“Wowzers...I just read that the tornado through there killed 22 people! Holy smokes! Me wonders if walnuts were invovled....”

“that must hurt. hes got a tarptent sticking thru his midsection and a stick thru his crotch”

“Kar Kampers! ;-)”

“We got home around 7:30pm, no power. Birch hooked up the generator (ROAAAAAAAAAAAAAR), no estimate of when power will be restored yet.

All they had here was extremely high winds I guess.

Great trip!!!! Thanks again WK for the superb organization, the campsites, cd, and for helping Laura out. You get trip organizer of the year in mine and Birch's book.”

“You get trip organizer of the year in mine and Birch's book

Mine as well. Really, WK, an outstanding job.”

“Agreed!!!!”

“HARTSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Investigators described a marijuana-growing operation discovered inside a cave in Trousdale County as something out of a James Bond movie.

"It's pretty amazing what they had under there — water for irrigation, special lighting, devices to keep the humidity just right.

These guys were professionals. They knew what they were doing," said District Attorney General Tommy Thompson of Hartsville.

The cave was beneath a stylish A-frame home where authorities say three men were able to grow as much as 100 pounds of marijuana every eight weeks.

"They could grow in 60 days what it would take four and a half months to grow outside," Thompson said. "It's just unbelievable what they've done. It's like something out of a James Bond movie."

Arrested on Wednesday were Brian Gibson and Greg Compton, while a third man, Fred Strunk, was arrested near Gainesville, Fla.

All three are in jail, with Gibson and Compton being held in the Trousdale County Jail. Bail was set for Gibson and Compton at $5 million, while Strunk's was set at $15 million, Thompson said. Local authorities were in Florida on Saturday to return Strunk to Tennessee.

The investigation began about five years ago when a home was built above the cave, but it never appeared anyone lived there, Thompson said.

"The front of the cave used to be a hole that you'd crawl into, and it opened up into a pretty big room that was 20-feet high. They cut the side of the hill so you could just drive right into the cave," he said.

The cave, reached from the house via secret entrances, is said to be about two miles long, but the marijuana operation was located about 100 yards inside. Thompson said the other end of the cave had been blocked to keep trespassers out.

According to the prosecutor, the men told locals they were going to be mining statuary rock.

To harvest the illegal crop, Thompson said the men would hire a half-dozen Hispanic workers in Arizona and drive them to Tennessee. For part of the journey the windows on the van would be covered so the workers did not know where they were.

"They would drive right into the cave and let them out to begin working," Thompson said.”

“Holy pothead batman!”

“...and we would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those medaling hikers”

“Okay, it only took me 8 months to put these photos online but they are finally here!

Golly Batman! Check out that Mammoth Bat Cave! Pictures Enjoy.



I'll have to bump this thread Monday...forgot it was Friday.”

“cool pics Dub! Thanks for the memories..”

“I hiked MCNP a few months ago. The trails are in a world of hurt. Too many horses with #&%!$s on their backs throwing beer cans and slim jim wrappers all over the place. I spoke to a ranger after that hike and they are apparently going to begin blazing trails in the South half of the park dedicated to foot traffic only. Yippy!”

“horses have feet?”

“No, they have hooves.”