Richard Culpeper wrote: > > Sandykayak_at_aol.com wrote: > --snip-- > > > So, all you winter nude sleepers. What happens when you need to tinkle? > > Funny you should ask. Once I tried to make a quick relief trip outside in a > snowstorm. Got lost. Got VVEERRRRYY CCCCOOOOLLLLDDDD. Since then my sleeping > partner is a Nalgene bottle. > > Cheers, > Richard > (Who to this day has a small white spot to remind him of frostbite) > > That reminds me(and then I promise to shut up)of me "being lost" once. We(the crew and I)had been cutting a hiking trail for almost 2 weeks, on the back side of Sheep Mt(or also called Gunsight Mt. from the other side). We had a large canvas army type tent pitched just above the timber line......, anyway, all good things come to an end. We got a call on the radio late one evening, to "grab personal gear, leave camp setup and prepare to be picked up by copter". There was a fire bust around McGrath(this is all up in Alaska, BTW), and we were being flown up there now. GRRRRRR. McGrath is noted for many things, one of them is an ample supply of mosquitoes! Anyway, we went from one wall tent to anouther one just like it in McGrath, awaiting to be flown out to a fire. So far so good. Early morning found me yielding to the call of nature. No problem, my still sleepy mind said, as I walked out the frount of the tent a couple of feet and started to "do my thing", like I had done for the past two weeks, high on a mountain. Standing there with my eyes still closed I heard laughter. Why was I hearing laughter on this mountain?!? I opened an eye and to my horrow saw a LONG line of fire fighters(male and female), waiting for the cook shack to open it's door! I calmly zipped up, waved, and walked back into my tent. I guess you might say "I was lost". :-) Upon returning back to Glennallen, my area manager approched me and said, "I hear you made quite a spash at McGrath", and that was the end of the discussion.. James, and sorry about straying off topic. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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