New Hampshire's White mountains in Septe mber

“OK wit me!”

“4 more days of work, I don't think I can handle it!”

“Got me another hike on the backside of the white trip, Baxter SP, kewl!”

“Also goin to klimb Katahdin, and hike the knife edge trail! Oh boy oh boy!”

“You Lucky Bear!!”

“Pete.. I'm right now I'm thinking of heading back Monday so I can get my son to school Tuesday. Leaving my car at Crawford would be the easiest thing to do in that case.

What I've gotta wrestle with is if I feel right putting him on a bus back to Boston the night before he starts school. He is 15 and he could stay with his Mom Monday night... so I've got a dilemma. Right now I'm thinking I should head back with him.”

“Come on Ped. School is just gonna rot his mind anyway. Stay in the mounmtains where life is free & easy.

Fresh air, sunshine, Good company
vs
Some drug & gun infested school.

hehehe”

“Dude, I gotta admit, you have a point!”

“LOL @ Dude.

Ped you do what you think is right.....it's not like we are gunna come back onto TT and call you a wus or anything like that.

Seriously though you do what is right!”

“WUS LOL, just kiddin. Leave it up to them yanks!Here Amy here Amy, bring them scented candles! Mohaaaaaa!”

“LOL! Wus! Bring it on! I'm sure I can get BacPac and Dr. Laura to back me up on this.”

“I bet you can!”

“Its been at least 6 hours since I've said anything to piss either of them off!”

“OR are they really UUU! R U A troll? EWeeeeeeee! LOL”

“Do yall think bugs will be a problem on this trip?”

“don't think so but I will bring some 100% deet bug juice just in case”

“I think my Olympus camera may be fried. If so, I gotta scrounge up a camera!!”

“How'd you fry yer SLR?”

“It fell in the water for a split second while canoeing in Florida with I-am-OM.”

“...and an alligator munched it?”

“naw. I wouldn't have gotten it back at all then!”

“It would have made a good story 8)”

“.............and as a wresteled my camera from the jaws of the 16 ft gator I knew he could easily take my hand off a any time. Just as he he let go of my Olympus to lunge for my arm, I pulled back, Focused and took a picture!
That was the same one used on the cover of Southern Outdoors Magazine.”

“Them gaitors aren't camera shy.”

“Damn, they've got bit gators in New Hampshires!!!”

“We WILL have good weather, we will have good weather!”

“that's what happened to my foot! I wasn't ever gunna tell anyone the real story because it sounds so dumb. I mean when have you ever heard of a gaitor attack in Jersey before. In light of the new tangent this thread has taken I feel compelled to tell the true story.

Ya see I was about 6 years old and I was using one of those small plastic pools for a boat, floating down the swollen creek in our backyard during a major hurricane. I went into a culvert (tunnel) under the road and while under there I got bumped out of the pool when I hit something that I thought was a rock.

I quickly started to climb back into the craft when all of a sudden I was grabbed from behind by a gaitor! It must have been 25 feet long. It got almost my whole leg into its mouth before I knew what was happening. I guickly responded by attacking back with my 10" bowie knife stabbing several times into it's brain. It laid limp hunched in my craft.
I then emerged from the other side of the culvert but it was too late for I had lost most of my left foot. I jumped out and wrapped the hanging flesh with reeds. I then gutted the beast and hoisted it up over my shoulder and went home. My parents wanted to take me to the hospital but I was more interested in making myself some boots. I still have those boots today. I had them dipped in bronze and they hang on my wall in the living room.”

“WOW, I never imagined! Got any meat leftover. Make some jerky!”

“Was that an official David bowie knife?”

“You can wear gaitors on your feet. Just not Gators.
Gotors on your feet would be bad.

Unless they are Gator Boots. Then you could use gaitors for your gators.”

“Gator.....gaitor, same type of bite mark. hehehe”

“LOL!!!
I spelled it "Gotors" once.
LMMFAO!!!”

“The David Bowie Knife, also called The Gay Blade.”

“BTW, Do yall have any Mountain Gators up in New Hampshire, Ped?”

“Dude I have faced some terrifying Gaiters in the mountains of Northern New England. I don't have the time to make up tell ya the story now.

Kewl story Pete!”

“I did have a ferocious encounter with two particularly ferocious ones on Saddleback Mountain. I managed to dispatch one, and have it stuffed and mounted in the living room near the fireplace.
Here is a pic:

Ped's trophy, it was either him or me”

“Jerbear: I like that theory... that I'm really BacPac. Of course, he would be trolling as PedXing, since BacPac showed up first.

If I'd thought up Dr. Laura, I'd do it, after all I did Plain Hiker. Someone posted as "Satan" on another outdoor board. Now that might be the ultimate troll name!”