camping spots

hey ppl

 

Ahhhh... I got my wish, ran a creek that I hadn't run before, and launched a few sweet drops today, and Steve's right, it's the chill within the intense chaos that I crave, the crazier the drops, the more the chill, it's wild like that. The first and last drops were the nicest, the first a twelve foot waterfall into a pool, and the last was more like eight, but it was trickier 'cause you had to avoid the rocks at the bottom. Saw a hawk on the river, I love scopin' birds of prey on the rivah...

Mystical imagery and obscureness sounds like a good place to be, I was hopin' to pick up something to help get me there this weekend, but it's all good, I can get close enough without it....next weekend.....

 

Sloth Outta Here!

 

Hey Carol,

Thanks for the compliment, I spent hours uploading that stuff last weekend, now I can't get any of those photos in my gallery to display in my posts for some reason, what's up with that? Maybe it's my browser, but it worked before. I took all those myself, 'cept that one of Donovan, and the Bush-chimp comparison (someone emailed that one to me, if you need a good laugh, scope it out).

The wild thing about this creek I ran yesterday is it's down near New Haven where the Housatonic meets the ocean (it runs into the Housatonic). Not too far from Brooklyn. I live up in the Northeast part of CT near RI and MA, where it's rural, men are men, and sheep are nervous LOL.

The city's definitely a trade off. I have a friend I grew up with who's an artist, and he lives in Manhattan, he loves it! It's like I was telling Steve a while back on the howdy thread, NYC is like a zoo of humanity, so much diversity and ethnicity, a great place to hang out and people-watch. It's true most everything is concrete, but a couple hours North is some fine country. Some of the finest whitewater in the Northeast is in upstate New York, the Catskills and the Adirondacks. If you want a major rush, raft the Hudson in the Spring, I plan to hit that one this Spring.

Be well, and Hippie Holidays,

Mark

 

Finally figured out how to make the picture thing work, thanks to some help from my friends here on the forum.

Winter camping at it's best, folks:



We found this lake in Vermont while backpacking a couple years ago. The water was pristine, and we camped there fourth of July weekend. There were some cliffs on the other side of the lake to jump off. As you can imagine, there weren't too many people there at that time, just us and the caretaker, and a ton of bugs. Luckily we had plenty of food, beer, and smoke with us, so we were able to hide from the bugs...

Then we went back last Winter, we thought we'd be fine without the snow shoes 'cause there wasn't much snow on the ground at the trail head. We were wrong! Everything was fine till we got to the last half mile, a steep uphill climb through waist deep powder with huge packs on our backs, plus the sun was going down. We ended up getting there and setting up the tent in the dark, and we froze our asses off that night. The next day we woke up, the wind died, it got warmer, and the sun came out, it was beautiful! Not a soul around except us and some birds flying over the lake. So we hung out there till early afternoon, had breakfast, smoked and drank wine, and made love, it was one of those memories made in heaven...

 

Another nice pic Mark, I've toyed with the idea of getting a digital camera, everytime I start getting serious about buying technology jumps and prices drop, I guess I'm waiting for digital quality to equal film, I have a Pentax 35mm, with a macro lens, and a all purpose lens. I'm still learning how to get the most out of it.


You all ever look at a web site called Erowid? I was floored by the amount of drug info there. There was one particular plant, the Sacred Datura, that I used to grow as an ornamental, I knew it could be used but was afraid to try it, the only person I knew who tried it ended up in the hospital. Seems some have good experiences with it.

Thanks for keeping the thread going in my absence.

 

The cost of digital cameras has dropped dramatically in the last few years, you can get a good one for under 300 bucks these days, though if you want one of those 35 mm jobs with the detachable lenses, that'll probably cost you more. Another option is to scan your photos, I got this scanner/printer free with a PC I bought, and I'll be damned if it didn't do a fine job on those Havasu pics!

A few years ago I went down to Key West with some friends and we were jonesin', y'know? We did eventually hook up, but before we did we went into this head shop and they had this stuff for sale, I forgot what the name of it was, but it was perfectly legal, and it was a hallucinogen. That stuff was powerful, but it only lasted like 30 seconds. I'll see if I can find that websight, but I'll wait till I'm not at work LOL.

Take it easy,
Mark

 

Mimosa, I saw your stage name listed on the Erowid site, mimosa is a plant that causes halucinations. It's interesting to read to posts on that site, people write about their experiences on whatever drug and also combinations of different drugs. You name it it's on there. Like taking melatonin with vitamin B-6, or nutmeg tea. There was a recipe for making lysergic acid from morning glory seeds. Alot of what I read was people comparing their experiences to marijuana, a good plant, why aint it legal? Damn war on drugs.

 

What about nutmeg? Is it all bullshit? How much jimson weed did you do? People spoke of eating 15 seeds. I tried smoking a joint of it once, no effect.

 

When I think of Mimosa, I think of the morning drink I have at the music festivals consisting of champagne and OJ (never heard of the other reference). It's my ritual y'see, I get up, run like five miles, get back to the camp sight, drink a mimosa and go sneak a few tokes on the sly prior to making the family breakfast. And from what I know of Mimosa on this forum, she reminds me of the drink, festive and happy...

As for alternative sources of recreational drug use, I like to stick with the stuff I know these days, I don't have the ability I used to to bounce back. I'm reminded of my first interaction with Steve, he asked me if I'd tried banana peels, and advised me against it when I said I hadn't *heh, heh*.

I was at a party a while back at which my lady and I were amoung the minority of folks that weren't on ecstasy, and they were all our age and older (40's and 50's), yet everyone assumed we were on it, so it was kind of a goof. I kinda wished I'd tried some, and afterward I found it would've been supplied to me had I asked, but by then it was too late (like 11 or 12pm, they said I'd be up all night). Oh well, at least the host was kind enough to give me a big ol' wad of 'shrooms, so it ended up being a great evening of deep spiritual conversation, and I met a group of guys who were older than me, yet shared the same philosophy as I do for living life: Embrace the inner child, work out every day to stay healthy, and party your brains out...