Holiday Weekend Plans

“This upcoming weekend is Memorial Day Weekend the unofficial beginning of the summer backpacking season. Who has plans and where will y'all be going. I'm heading up to Siskiyou Wilderness to meet a few other TT'ers for 3-4 days of remote and rugged backpacking. Just got my fishing liscense too so I'm hoping to supplement my meals with some fresh hungry trout.”

“I'll be working Saturday and Sunday.

I hope y'all have a great time and catch big, not so hungry, fish. The kind that have had plenty to eat but hungry enough to bite. :o)”

“I'm heading up to Michigan to see the folks. I might get out for a night or two of camping at a little spot I know.”

“My condolences, what do you do that requires you to work this weekend? I hope you'll be able to hit the trail soon. This early in the season the trout tend to be a bit feisty but I'm hopin' their fat enough to eat but as you said, hungry enough to bite.

Cheers!”

“Hiking and camping in the Chircahua Mountains in SE AZ. Saturday is a 3000 foot hump up a mountain, steep one I am told. Then cooking pancakes for the group 20+/- Sunday morning.”

“Going to Mt. Hood in Oregon, 12,200 or so feet, and see if we can climb it. I've never done Hood, but have seen it from many peaks in Washington, and it give me incentive (fear) to get in shape. Wish me luck!”

“Going to Mt. Hood in Oregon, 12,200 or so feet, and see if we can climb it. I've never done Hood, but have seen it from many peaks in Washington, and it gives me incentive (fear) to get in shape. Wish me luck!”

“Jordan River Pathway”

“Three day patrol with the Forest Service in the San Gorgonio Wilderness. I AM STOKED.”

“Baxter State Park.”

“I'm going with Dunk to scare the fish away.

Hey Idaho, Mt. Hood is actually 11,235 feet. We're a little touchy about mountains gaining elevation around here. Check Why.
Bring your crampons, ice axe and a few buddies to rope up with, it's still pretty snowy up there.”

“Red River Gorge in Kentucky. I am hoping to run into Daniel Boone's Ghost.”

“My wife and I will be hiking Mt Whiteface in New Hampshire on the 26th. We will probably do another day hike on the 27th as well.”

“Idaho Bob-
Here's hoping that Hood doesn't blow chunks on ya!

I'm going to the Cranberry Wilderness in the Monongehela N F in West Virginia with two of my boys and a cousin or two.

Dolly Sods is nice but on Memorial Day weekend the place will be a zoo.
Those of you who are going there, careful where you step.”

“beer and tubing in florida. whoo-hoo!”

“Grilling with the family. Everyone is coming out to the lake. We'll probably see some movies and dayhike a little.

Actually, I've been hiking a lot lately and it'll be nice just to bumble around a little.”

“Thanks, ChinaChas, lower elevation is good news to me. I can't wait to have a weekend away from my yard projects.”

“Off to the Dakotas for Badlands and Black Hills, maybe as early as Thursday if I can get my act together. Finishing grading paperwork (or supposed to be) as I write this.”

“St. Mary's Wilderness with running girl and boy.”

“ChinaChas, the others with us may want to eat them trout you're threatening to scare away. Oh, and the best way to scare 'em is by being very quiet.”

“Lets see, where can I go on Memorial Day weekend? Where is a place where there are no people? That would have to be my bathtub, but that wouldn't be much of a vacation :{}”

“Okay Dunk, I'll be REAL quiet while I wash more shorts in the lake.”

“If you live within a hundred miles of the border, head to Canada. Victoria Day was last weekend. All the parks will be empty.”

“Dunk, if they perfected cloning, I'd be up there with ya... that trout fishing sounds great, but I'm hoping to angle a few in Desolation... you guys gonna schedule another one up there?”

“Putting down a new floor in the Living room.
fun fun fun

*gun to my head* BANG!!!”

“Working Friday-Monday. pay X 2.5 and comp. day off. Not too bad I guess.”

“Starting on a 2 week hike thru GA.”

“Damn Evergreen, with the exception of the location, you have the best gig goin'.”

“I'm working next weekend. I got out yesterday--went to Blue Springs on the Little Colorado-- my shoulders are sore from climbing.”

“Mark Knopfler......Saturday night....Chastain Park....
Hotlanta!... I will gain thousands of feet of elevation when he plays that geetar and sings for me.....”

“Well I'm headed up to Dinkey Lakes Wilderness. I called the Kern County Ranger again today and they don't plan on the road being open yet, but I know a back way into that area from a different area. It's only a couple miles longer. I just made up meal plans for the trip. I'm hopein ta get in on some of them jumpin trout. I've even got the dirty on which lake has the golden trout. :) I made up a meal list and I'm useing Ramen as altrenatives to fish if I don't do so hot.”

“Oh, and I'm planning on climbing the Three Sisters too, thats not the oregon ones”

“Some where on the AT in Maine, probably near Andover or Saddleback.”

“Family Graduation party! S#@T!#$% Damm kids, and NO not mine! I do not have any.Butt I love my nieces!And one is my Godchild! And my sister informed me that I WOULD be there! Yo bear!”

“East coast weather is gonna be nasty??”

“nasty?

i don't think so. it'll be about mid 80's. perfect beer-tubing weather.”

“Weather in the Monogehela N F looks good...partly cloudy, highs 60-70, lows 40-50”

“I was hoping to go with wanderer and the rest of the TTers to Desolation (California), can't due to a slow recovery from foot surgery. So to console myself, I'm going car camping in the Trinities (also California).”

“I am so stoked about the Desolation Wilderness, I'll try to have fun for the both of us, SP.

Woo Hoo!!! Sierras!!!!!”

“Well good. I thought I heard something on CNN today about bum weather. Musta been mistook.”

“the weather is NEVER like CNN or the weather channel tells it.....at least not for the southeast.....gotta check out the real time sattelite view then go outside or go.....
besides.....no such thing as bad weather right? just improper clothing......”

“i hope it's not in the north too! they are predicting lows of 45 degrees and rain all weekend! yuck. definately will change our plans if it is as predicted.”

“Going west--Colorado. Leaving tomorrow, visiting a friend from college, doing research for work on Thurs & Fri, then visiting the mountains on Sat & Sun. Then Monday is the BIG EVENT--the Bolder Boulder. Woo-Hoo, we've been planning to do it for a year.”

“Got no plans...yet! This is the first 3-day holiday weekend in a looooong time, that I can think of, that I haven't had any plans.

May go back to WV!”

“I'm going to do some work at the cemetery like planting flowers and weeding. Probably plant a garden at the house too. I don't like going out on the trails on a holiday weekend because it's just too crowded so I'll go when everyone else is out of the woods. I will get out to do some flyfishing.”

“I'm thinkin' the 3-4 days we're on the trail we won't see another person outside our group. What d'ya think ChinaChas and Trinity Trekker?”

“I may opt for motorcycling to the San Juan Islands in WA. Motorcycles get preference and are loaded on the ferry first while people in cars have to wait for hours.

I think I would prefer to kayak instead of hike to avoid the crowds.”

“Agreed Dunk. I would be amazed to see anyone beyond our band of brave warriors. Once you head out of the "Gap" and into the valley, you pretty much leave the tourists behind. ;)”

“I'm leaving Thurs. for a 4-5 day solo in Yolla Bolly Wilderness (California also). I really doubt I'll see anybody either.”

“hey, pantscandy. great name! and great pics on your site!”