WHOOHAH,GOTTATROPHYBUCKANDIT'SALLTIEDUPONTHEBACKOFMYTRUCK

here's a brief recap of some recent goings-on.

halloween happened, i don't think i did anything.


did a lonely solo clammin run two weekends ago. got my limit of razors friday night but didn't stick around long enough for low tide on saturday. cleaned 'em by truck light that night. it's gonna be CHOWDAH time this xmas. found a handful of chanterelles in the capitol forest on my way home. neat.





been doing the dehydrator thing again lately. lotsa cinamon apple chips.

so i'm a late bloomer to the hunting scene. when i took hunters education a few years ago i sat in back with all the Dads. they would ask me which kid in the class was mine and they would look at me funny when they realized i was actually taking the class.

the last few years i'd make it into the woods a couple days a year trying to get a deer. when you're pretty much teaching yourself/learning as you go/etc., and you don't have any 'beginners luck' it can get pretty discouraging and it's easy to get frustrated, deterred, pissed, etc. especially when you spend all damn day in the woods and never even see a friggin deer.

but after 3 seasons of deer hunting, i got my first deer last weekend. it was a 1x2 white tail buck. not too big, but i'm very proud/excited about it. i had a lot of help from a nice spokane resident that showed me around his home hunting turf. if i ever get around to it, there are several nice stories to type about that experience. until then, here's a few pics:

ground blind

ground blind again. the blind helped keep us dry during the sleet and rain, but the buck was not taken while in the blind.

about 6 bowls of venison were aged in my fridge. had to buy a chest freezer this week. some of the meat was made into potato sausage and chorizo last week thanks to help from CZ. gonna work on jerky soon.

earlier this season snowman, wiltron, and i hunted some other areas. here's some memories!

wiltron with mega porcini

just goats, no deer

purdy

after several hours of hunting in cold rain it's pretty easy to get grumpy. stoked to be eating warm food in back of damp truck. these are happy faces!

THIS MEANS SOMETHING

fatty.

CRAP

Damn rigged lottos.

"Hello,

Thank you so much for entering the 2011 Legendary Banked Slalom Lottery. We had 528 people apply for 110 spots, and unfortunately you were not chosen during our lottery selection.

Thanks again for applying for the lottery and we hope to see you at the 2011 Legendary Banked Slalom on February 11, 12, & 13 at Mt. Baker!

-Laura Bruhns
Registration Coordinator
Legendary Banked Slalom
Mt. Baker Ski Area"

HIPPIE TIME

it's fall. haven't gone fishing since labor day. first deer hunt was fun but not successful. went huckleberry picking last weekend. the berries aren't too plentiful this year but i brought a few home. baked some huckleberry muffins tonight. found a few chanterelles in the woods earlier this week. gonna try for more tomorrow. rumor is the matsutake and porcinis are still to be found this side of the pass. we'll see.



there might be a razor clam dig next weekend. hoping to make it.

CRABBIN RECAP

crabbing ended on labor day weekend. we crabbed hard and got 4 keepers that weekend. the bounty was shared. here's a few more crabbing pics. can't wait for next season. gonna save up all kinds of stinky stuff in the freezer to bring those little fellas to our traps next year.


















p.s. if you have anything that glows in the dark that you don't need, please send it my way. crabs love to rave dance.

PACKLERS

i went to my first packers game yesterday. this was the first NFL game that i have been to, it was just a pre-season game though. ZEEKERS picked up about 8 tickets for $20 a piece and it was time to reunite with the wicso football crew. the bus ride down to the stadium was a little painful because there was a little thing called hempfest happening in seattle today. traffic was messed and there were ripping high teenagers running in and out of traffic. ugghhh, hippies and ravers, my two favorite scenes. the bus driver honked a lot and almost lost it a few times. at one point he disembarked the bus near pike place to go to a tully's coffee shop. i got off early, wished the driver luck with the rest of his route, and footed it to the bar our posse was gonna meet at.

there was a pretty good mix of packer and hawks fans wandering around downtown. some of the hawks fans were kinda d-bags, but overall there seemed to be a pretty good 'my team is superior to your team but we don't need to fight about it' vibe going on. preseason, c'mon. the bar we met at had free peanuts! ZEEKERS had a backpack of green n gold stuff to wear, so we geared up. after a few beers i filled my hat with peanuts and we hiked to the stadium.

on the way to the stadium, GMOZ (aka Donald Driver) scalped some extra tickets. RDRR! after that i put my peanut filled hat on and we proceeded through security. security man made me take off my hat and several peanuts fell to the ground. security man thought it was funny. apparently you are allowed to bring your own food into the stadium. i guess i didn't know.

wheelin & dealin



peanut hat

i left a mess of peanut dust on this dudes fancy hawks jacket. "HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?"

beers in the stadium cost $8.50. they stopped serving after halftime. wtf? saved me some money i suppose.


go pack!


nice view

there was a large group of japanese kids sitting behind us and at one point one of the ladies asked to wear GMOZ's cheese hat for a photo shoot. one of the japanese dudes got a little bent out of shape about it because they were rooting for the hawks. rdrr.

peace!

the packers won! i'm pretty sure if you're good in the pre-season you're gonna suck come regular season but whatever.

got a little bit of crabbin in this week. a total of seven crabs and one starfish in the pots. only one legal dungeness though.


purdy

purdier

MELTING CHEESE

went on the first backpacking trip of the summer this weekend. one nighter in the alpine lakes wilderness. super tuff guy posse consisted of me, snowman, and duke (aka: a-man). target destination was thompson lake. snowman and i tried to get to thompson lake twice last year, both trips were busts. hit the trail at about 4:20 pm and got to the lake around 8:15 p.m. i think the trail was somewhere between 7 or 8 miles with pretty steep ups and downs. not super gnar i guess but i don't think i could have done much more, wuss.


snowman is fast. a-man broke his wrist 3 months ago and hasn't been exercising much, he is still pretty fast. i'm a little less fast than them. not too many people on the trail and we had the whole lake to ourselves, pretty sweet and very rare. had a nice dinner, drank some whiskey, swatted at bugs, and jammed out to some johnny cash played on snowman's cellphone. brought fishin poles but never bothered fishin.


hike out today was hot and there were lots of hosers on the trail. it was hot, 95 degrees in seattle today. there were definitely times during this trip that i was hurting with chest pains, blisters, mega sweat, etc. but now that i'm back home i wish i was back in the mountains. uber nice having this stuff so close to the city!


oh, i found another mylar balloon. on every backpacking trip i've been on in the last few years i have found a mylar balloon. balloons go to heaven in the mountains.

PICS!

shortly after the 1985 ASTRO got us to the trailhead


motorin'


snowman. his fising pole died on this trip. RIP.


mason lake. rumor is they 'treated' this lake to kill the fish. wtf? greenie hippies boil the blood.


sick


trail, don't go left


hoodlum or artist?



awwww


rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey, bourbon too


TRON was smart enough to bring flip flops, i was not.


view from camp. thompson lake is pretty big for a mtn. lake. pic doesn't do justice.


camp. no tent sharing here.


THIS IS MY NATURE VALLEY. OH MAN, RDRR!


where the trees at?


"yeah i've been cooking a bit too. i've been experimenting with melting cheese on different shit."

p.s. found one boletus mirabilis when i was pooping this morning. (it's a mushroom.)

DURN DURN DURN

crapboobfartisthdurngalldamneffitall. truck got sick thursday on the way to do some crabbin. doctor bills were just shy of 1K. JOOSE easing the pain. sad face.

I'M IN UR TENT, DRINKIN ALL UR BEERZ

I GOT CRABS BRAH

mega long time since last post. since the last post a gripo stuff happened. went on two toobin party boozy floats, flew to the midwest for a wedding, ali picked roberto, went crabbing a few times, became a landlord, moved yet another friend to ballard, drank smuggled whiskey at an M's game, did some wyldestyle wakeskating, skated a 6' mini, and proabably some more crap. no time for word stories, so here are the picture stories! no order.

webslinger

frozirra

good pals

jims gettin rad. dropping in is my best trick so far.

dream rig

midwest

dance champs!


this dog is old enough to buy smokes. seriously 18 people years


show off

crabs

seabass


future guides!


so good

bday party time!

still haven't backpacked yet this summer. not good.