PaddleWisers... I still remember my first trip to Montana to visit family a number of years ago. We were going to paddle on the Stillwater and do some camping and hiking. After hiking a ways I start picking up these beautiful, big feathers ...lots of 'em ! Man, I'm tying them together and making ornamental what-evers ...we all had ponytails back then, non ? Jim finally sees what I'm up to and goes ballistic. "Throw all that away ! Eagle feathers you idiot ...jail time, BIG TIME ! ", he says. What the heck did I know ? Bear bells and eagle feathers, I was way out of my element ! This was not a winter camping trip but I got the coldest that I have ever been in my life. This was a summer time trip ...July 4th to be exact ...but up above 9000 feet we got a 5 inch snow ! ...on July 4th !! If I had not been there I would not have believed it. Jim kept telling me as we packed earlier ...yeah, take that ...better pack that too ...you'll need another jacket. I'm glad I listened to him or I would probably have been more than just 'cold". My cook stove wouldn't work, my small lantern wouldn't work, my fingers wouldn't work ...my nose ran and my feet smelled ! ...midnight head call ? ...Forget it ! I would have pee'd in Jim's boot before going out of that tent. All in all it was a GREAT trip and the Stillwater was anything but still ! Oh, yeah I never did get to try out a recipe that I kept proposing for the duration of the trip ! The locals just sadly shook their heads ...We did cook up something I remember called "Shephards Pie". Had a big spoonful of mashed potatoes on top of a veggie-meat mixture that all sat on bannock bread, I think. Pretty good stuff, but my "Eagle Gumbo" would have been better ! ...adieu, mes amies ...Peyton (Louisiana) ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Dec 02 1999 - 09:41:40 PST
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