Hocking Hills Hysteria '09

“I was thinking about Dutch over cherry cobbler. My husband doesn't want to ever join me on these trips but he sure likes cooking for them. Who am I to complain!”

“Who's Dutch and why is he over the cherry cobbler?? LOL

Actually, I was offering to make the upsidedown cake. What the heck, I'm gonna do it regardless.”

“Dangit...I didn't want to bring my big pot and make my award winning chowder...”

“That sounds great!
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“I'll make uber healthy banana bread for Sat morning. Nigal, you should be able to eat this stuff.
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“Wow I think I 'm just gonna leave my food at home! :)
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“Last time we were there some fisherman gave us four fresh caught trout, remember? I believe we had limes from vodka tonics for them. Maybe I'll bring vodka tonics again, just in case.”

“I will bring stuff for a big fruit salad and some brownies. Windi...what about buns for the pork...want me to bring?”

“You guys are making me hungry! LOL Have a great time!”

“Stokley, if you can bring buns, that would be great. A feast is in the making!”

“I'll bake up a few loaves of olive bread to bring.”

“Anyone want to pack some paper bowls and plastic spoons for the chowder? I'll make it Saturday...or maybe Friday if someone will fry 2lbs of bacon for me while I'm doing the rest of the chowder ;)”

“Heya Dub...I'll bring bowls and spoons”

“I can bring my camp stove and fry bacon for ya, Dub. Do you want me to bring the bacon?”

“Nah, I'll bring the bacon, if someone can fry it it will help a lot since the recipe will keep me busy. Bacon gets added last. JB cooked it for me at traildays, ate about half of it too while cooking ;-p”

“Ever use the pre cooked? It's pretty good stuff. Clean up is a lot easier too.

I've got sour cream blueberry coffee cake and banana bread baking right now. Smells really good here. Oh, and gear scattered all over. Feels good to trip over the cooler. =)”

“Ok I'm out guys...I'll see ya all when you get there! :)
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“Word. Maybe I'll call in sick tomorrow and come down early ;-)”

“"word". wtf. Are we all going hip hop this weekend? Our posse will be rollin to the crib about 4. word.”

“u better have the right gang color on, we bloods, you show up with the wrong colors we shoot!”

“Would that be camo?”

“bloodz=red”

“crackas, please”

“Nigal: I might be wrong, but I sense things getting out of control.. this is your trip. You need to take charge.”

“Nigal: I might be wrong, but I sense things getting out of control.. this is your trip. You need to take charge.”

“I don't know golfy...it's pretty quiet around here right at the moment! :p~”

“upluver, are you at the site? Pug was about there when I talked to him a few minutes ago, hopefully he'll find ya.”

“I already miss my camper.”

“I'm outta here in a few. See you all there!”

“I'm all packed and ready to go. I baked two loaves of jalapeno bread for tonight. I'm gonna have to leave ya'll to your pulled pork (shut up Golf, I know I said pork) and mac and cheese. I'm cookin' Mediterranean tonight!”

“We're all freezing. Its about 28F right now. We finally talked Crash into putting his pants on. Dancing Queen is passed out in his tent, slacker. Its cold.”

“Btw Nigal has been tested and he is not boy crazy”

“Made it home! Had a great time. Pictures to follow!”

“Us too. Have all the wet tent parts hanging on the clothes line even. Uneventful ride home; only ten "Are we there yets".

Was a great trip. Nigal thank you for organizing.”

“home and stowed. thanks to all who made and shared the excelent food! And Nigal for puttin it together!Good food good pople good time yo bear!”

“NIgal: Thanks for organizing. Great time, fantastic State Park, hiking from Cave to Cave. Enjoyed being with everyone. I'm just not sure we had enough food. Maybe next time. Word.”

“Windi: As usual, good pics. Thanks.”

“We had a great time too. Great to see old friends and some new ones. btw- did any one happen to find Honey's bowls?”

“730 miles later I'm finally home!
Great weekend everyone...thanks Nigal for putting this and for all the great chefs that made sure I didn't go hungry! :-)

Great photos Windi!

I have Honey's bowls btw Nigal...shoot me an email tomorrow and we'll figure out how to get them back to ya...”

“Grace and I had a great trip. It was nice seeing old faces and meeting new ones. She fell asleep last night asking everyone got their trail name...that was fun explaining!”

“Speaking of old faces...glad to see ya made it home UPlover! :) I'll get the bowls from ya at RRG in May, cool?”

“Lol thanks Nigal....I love you too! :p~

And yeah I can bring them along then if you don't need them before that...”

“Here are a few photos from last weekend
http://picasaweb.google.com/UPluver/HockingHills0309#”

“Nice pictures Joe!
I let Joe know you need a towel. Hopefully he'll remember!”

“Cool, Thnx Sass :)”

“Nice Pics, Thanks for sharing!”

“wow...great pics!!!!..thanks for sharing!!!”

“Nice pics, folks. Just wish I'd had a chance to visit more with everyone. There were a lot of us trying to squeeze around that campfire!

My cousin and I are at her house in Kentucky after staying and hiking the rim trail loop at Conkle's Hollow, a loop trail at the Rock House, up and down & up and down at Cantwell Cliff (well worth it, btw), and taking a reunion tour (lol) through Old Man's Cave, the Long Tunnel Trail, and loop trail to Broken Rock Falls. Then on the next day to Tar Hollow SP trails and climbing the fire tower there. No showers open at Tar Hollow, though!

Now we've hiked locally, and are getting set for a paddling trip starting Thursday. Good times!”

“CP, be careful. When you passing thru my area? jerbear@netzero.com”