Yep! A while back, I proposed a thread about a Glacier Nat’l Park-based Dopefest/Campout in Montana.
Well, it seems I’ve got a tentative return date, and I will suggest the planning date of 1 July 2006 for our “git together”. Why so far in advance? Because I’m deployed right now, but I’m relatively sure I’ll be home just before then.
And if’n y’all are interested (and intrepid enough), I’ll suggest we go camping at a real ghost town: Bannack, MT during that week.
So, mark your calendars, and bring your favorite beer mug. I’m thinking Saint Mary’s campground for Camp Cecil . . . but I’m open to suggestion. I’ll make reservations later on this week or early the next.
Tripler
Ghost stories ‘n’ beer. A perfect retreat.
Aw, man, I’ll be in Glacier around June 1. shakes angry fist at the sky
I don’t know if you’re aware of this (and if you are, I apologize), but Bannack is pretty far from Glacier (like 300+ miles). There’s a ghost town much closer called Alton, near St. Mary, which is right outside the park to the east. I don’t know if you can camp there, though.
I knew it was a little ways away, but didn’t realize it was 300 miles. :smack:
Well, since I will have two weeks off, I had planned on hitting up some ghost towns, with the keystone event being “Camp Cecil”. Either way, I think a ghost town and Glacier would be a cool combination if people have the time.
DUDE. When you have to drive 45 minutes for groceries in a grocery store maybe three times the size of my living room and 90 minutes for a trip to the nearest bookstore…
The western part of the state is growing in population, actually – it’s the eastern part (where I live) that’s seeing folks drift away. We’ve been having years of drought (though last year’s spring was very wet) that’s really hurting the ranches and farms out here, and there aren’t too many other things to do out here. Sure is pretty, though.
I’m way the hell out in Rosebud County, ~2 hours east of Billings, right off the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. My town has 500 people. And isn’t it sad that as soon as I typed that I thought, “500 people…I really shouldn’t be complaining.” (I moved here 2 years ago from the DC Metro area, though, so I should be excused.)
But you know you’re in the sticks when you run out of milk at 8 pm and there is nowhere you can go to buy more.
My wife should be good and pregnant by then. I tried talking her into another camping trip to Montana this summer, but so far I’ve only been able to get her as far as the Black Hills. And then only in June. She’s due mid-August, so I guess I wouldn’t want a long hot road trip if I had to carry the baby.
I’ll PayPal you enough cash to have a beer or twelve though. As a thanks for your work in Afghanistan.
Man had you done this a couple of years ago like I thought you wanted to I’d have been there. But now I can’t make the 2000 mile trip and come back in a few days since I’ve got a baby now. I’d so be there if I could though.
Once I get back (around 24 June), I’ll be back for just under a month before I move to Georgia (19 July). So this means:
SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!! YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SEE TRIPLER IN THE WILD! For a limited time only! See a real-live Doper build a campfire like he’s never built one before! Hurry before it’s too late!
Tripler
Tickets available at a box office near you.
I work at school, so I checked the student calendar. Looks like we’ll be closed for July 3rd and 4th (yay!). I’ll be there… but Tripler, can I beg for that weekend to fall near the west part of Montana? It would be much more convenient for me because that “long” weekend will still be only 5 days of vacation for me, minus two for travelling. Please and thanks (whatever you decide is best for you).
Also, Tinkertoy, if you’re still interested in going… I live in SE ID (Idaho Falls, specifically) and was wondering if you’d like to carpool or something.
Um, I know. I apologize. When it was mentioned that you wanted to do Bannack, and then gallows fodder said it was 300ish miles from Glacier, I assumed that it was 300 miles to the east of GNP.
Seeing as it’s actually south of GNP and very near me (less than a three hour drive), either location would work for me.*
*Cause it’s all about me, dontcha know. I kid. And I apologize. Yet again.
Maybe next time.
