Pix from VT campin' and skiin'

[moe ghoul]

Approach into Mud City Sunday 11/29

62 lbs on my back, including pack weight. Turns out we needed almost everything I lugged uphill for almost 4 miles.

The cabin

Front entrance to cabin, interior shots'll be posted when I get them off my friend's camera. flash was required.

Creek and waterfall behind the cabin

Awesome outhouse

Testing it out. Mission accomplished. Actually gave a play by play on the walkie talkies and ended up getting recorded on my buddy's iphone. Nixon had tapes. Now I've been taped.

Baked while swinging an axe cutting wood. Still got all my limbs.

[moe ghoul]

Final shot from my camera from the camping portion of trip. This was a masterpiece.

 

[moe ghoul]

Random shots from Kmart Wednesday 12/2 and Friday 12/4. No shots from MRG due to poor visibility and heavy rain.

 

 

Lunch at the "Tailgate". Eff crappy overpriced lodge food.

 

 

 

Amazing sight along Rte. 100 driving towards Rutland on Thursday. Water was shooting out from the rain.

 

In line waiting for the K-1 to open today.

[RootDKJ]

Cool TR. Where there any signs on the cabin?

[Johnny Style]

+1 Nice TR.

[moe ghoul]

Cool TR. Where there any signs on the cabin?

 

Yeah, the camp has a name, but we're keeping it a secret unless anyone can ID it. It's that cool. We couldn't find it on any of the trail or topo maps.

[moe ghoul]

I sort of think I know where the shack is..I have an internet source or two to verify...and your secret is safe with me but I will take a guess backchannel..

 

I have a feeling you guys did up the meals in gourmet fashion..some of the dehydrated pasta dishes from EMS are decent..

 

I did quite a bit of prep before hand. Baked off and sliced up potatoes, made a few pounds of teriyaki jerky on the smoker, had eggs, bacon bits, parsely, chopped up yellow and red onions with shallots which we ate on everything. Swiped every kind of condiment packet from minimarts. Buddy brought 2 thick NY strips, killed a bottle of Cuervo Black and 1/2 a bottle of single barrel bourbon. We ate REALLY well. Made a nice tequila reduction for the steaks. Yummers.

[nick malozzi]

Well done Moe, this is the type of stuff I like to see. With up state new york and vt so close, it kills me that more PASRs aren't getting at the backpacking and skiing. Well done indeed.

[moe ghoul]

Well done Moe, this is the type of stuff I like to see. With up state new york and vt so close, it kills me that more PASRs aren't getting at the backpacking and skiing. Well done indeed.

 

All part of my plan to kick it up a notch with BC as the goal. Rome wasn't built in one day, but I like my progress so far and was pleased as punch that a lot of skills from years ago came back intuitively. Cooking on my old Army issued mess kit I used from my scouting days flooded me with memories of people places and things I thought I had long forgotten. I recently built a small trailer, modular style with the idea that I could custom build several setups for hauling kayaks and even creating a small warming hut on it. Moe's wheels are already spinning away in design mode.

My buddy had a small boat trailer he never finished assembling and was laying in his backyard rotting away covered in ivy. Here's the wheels and axle after I wirebrushed and primed it and reinforced the axle to hold heavier weight.

Modular assembly allows me to take the whole trailer apart in 10 minutes

 

MRG stokage on the fenders.

I drive a Honda Pilot, so it's been christened the "Co-Pilot"

I finished it on Veteran's Day, so I thru some flags on it and emailed the pic to the guy that left it to rot in his yard.

 

Final cost was about $120, not including materials I already had laying around the house and shop. It cost me almost as much to title it and register it.

[nick malozzi]

All part of my plan to kick it up a notch with BC as the goal. Rome wasn't built in one day, but I like my progress so far and was pleased as punch that a lot of skills from years ago came back intuitively. Cooking on my old Army issued mess kit I used from my scouting days flooded me with memories of people places and things I thought I had long forgotten. I recently built a small trailer, modular style with the idea that I could custom build several setups for hauling kayaks and even creating a small warming hut on it. Moe's wheels are already spinning away in design mode.

My buddy had a small boat trailer he never finished assembling and was laying in his backyard rotting away covered in ivy. Here's the wheels and axle after I wirebrushed and primed it and reinforced the axle to hold heavier weight.

Modular assembly allows me to take the whole trailer apart in 10 minutes

 

MRG stokage on the fenders.

I drive a Honda Pilot, so it's been christened the "Co-Pilot"

I finished it on Veteran's Day, so I thru some flags on it and emailed the pic to the guy that left it to rot in his yard.

 

Final cost was about $120, not including materials I already had laying around the house and shop. It cost me almost as much to title it and register it.

Nice... if all goes as planned I'll be building or buying a trailer this spring for my new raft and frame (like I said, if all goes well). I already have the warming hut in the back of my truck, so the trailer will be gear only in my case. Hope yours works out!

[moe ghoul]

Nice... if all goes as planned I'll be building or buying a trailer this spring for my new raft and frame (like I said, if all goes well). I already have the warming hut in the back of my truck, so the trailer will be gear only in my case. Hope yours works out!

 

My motivation to build it initially was to haul my snowblower over to my MIL's house to move snow, but it quickly morphed into potential other uses like I mentioned. FYI, the trailer was a kit by D. Hart Designs Inc. . Trade name T-1000, Max load: 200lbs (I beefed it up to about 400 lbs carrying capacity). Already customized the deck to secure the blower and installed cleats for easy tethering. I'm seriously considering doing residential driveways d/b/a SNONOMOE or SNONOMO' or UNRELIABLE SNO REMOVAL.

[AtomicSkier]

nice pics moe...look like you had fun

 

nice bmw

[Johnny Law]

62 lbs holy shit...props because that's a shit ton of weight

[moe ghoul]

62 lbs holy shit...props because that's a shit ton of weight

 

Props to the new backpack, which made it feel a lot less than that. That said, I'll be scaling back a bit on the next outing.

[moe ghoul]

62 pounds for two nights..what did you bring???

 

We brought enough stuff for at least 3 nites if we decided to extend it. Some of the stuff I had is a bit outdated tech and materialswise, but I didn't want to shell out the money for some fancy micro liteweight replacement at this point in time. My old Army mess kit, a can of salmon, 2 tins of smoked oysters, 2 cans of tuna, 2 lbs of propane, the burner, a cooking pot, a shovel, my bayonet, a full bottle of Cuervo Black prolly came close to 10-12 pounds alone. The pack weighs almost 6.