4:00am...Wake up time. Get ready head to Jason's.
5:00am...Met Jason at his house and packed up and went to John's house.
6:15am...Got to John's and had to go to someone else's house to pick a basket that was made to carry our stuff and attach it to Jason's jeep.
7:00am...We realize that we cannot attach the basket because we didn't have the tools t attach the basket to the trailer hitch
7:00am...Panicking we buy WD-40 to lube up the the metal so we can hopefully attach the basket and get going
7:10am...We frantically call to see if anyone is up and John gets ahold of a coworker and landlord to borrow tools to attach the basket safely. After using a block and banging the crap out of the basket it goes into the hitch and bulllllaaaaaaahhh
7:45am...Went to eat some Bogangle's and drank some coffee. We get back to John's house to load up, and realize we do not have any safe way of tieing down our gear to the newly installed basket and have to find a hardware store to get some tie down straps.
9:30am...Finally got to the hardware store and bought 7 tiedown straps to hold four backpacks loaded to an excess of 50pds a piece to the newly installed basket attach to Jason's jeep.
10:30am...Stop to get gas and finally got on the road for a four hour journey to Panthertown Valley.
In order to tell you how our trip went I had to give a detailed description of the events that took place before we left on Friday. We stopped several times to use the facilities and finally got to Panthertown about 3:30pm. The hike in was great. The sun faded quickly as we hiked to our destination for camping. We had to set up in the dark as night fell upon us very quickly. We had a collage of things for dinner and retired soon after.
Saturday John and I woke up early to enjoy the little bit of sun that we had that day. We started building the fire and enjoying conversation. Jason and Landon took the opportunity to sleep in a little late. We were soon greeted with rain that lasted the rest of the afternoon and evening. Getting a fire going and keeping it lit was very difficult but we managed to keep it going enough to eat dinner. Soon after we retired from the wet and played a couple of rounds of cards then settle in for the night.
Sunday morning was greeted with a very warming and well needed sun. John and I spent most of our early morning trying to lit a portable camp stove that only Jason seemed to be able to light. After about a good 30 minutes we went and woke Jason to give us a hand. As the morning went on we were able to built the best fire we could and enjoyed a steak and eggs breakfast cooked over the campfire. We were able to dry all that was wet in the warm sun on Sunday afternoon. We then packed up and made the journey back up the mountain to get back to were we started from late Friday afternoon.
It was a great time a good fellowship for all of us. We have talked about moving the camping trip to a new location next year. So thank you to Panthertown Valley and all your beauty. We truly enjoyed it.
5:00am...Met Jason at his house and packed up and went to John's house.
6:15am...Got to John's and had to go to someone else's house to pick a basket that was made to carry our stuff and attach it to Jason's jeep.
7:00am...We realize that we cannot attach the basket because we didn't have the tools t attach the basket to the trailer hitch
7:00am...Panicking we buy WD-40 to lube up the the metal so we can hopefully attach the basket and get going
7:10am...We frantically call to see if anyone is up and John gets ahold of a coworker and landlord to borrow tools to attach the basket safely. After using a block and banging the crap out of the basket it goes into the hitch and bulllllaaaaaaahhh
7:45am...Went to eat some Bogangle's and drank some coffee. We get back to John's house to load up, and realize we do not have any safe way of tieing down our gear to the newly installed basket and have to find a hardware store to get some tie down straps.
9:30am...Finally got to the hardware store and bought 7 tiedown straps to hold four backpacks loaded to an excess of 50pds a piece to the newly installed basket attach to Jason's jeep.
10:30am...Stop to get gas and finally got on the road for a four hour journey to Panthertown Valley.
In order to tell you how our trip went I had to give a detailed description of the events that took place before we left on Friday. We stopped several times to use the facilities and finally got to Panthertown about 3:30pm. The hike in was great. The sun faded quickly as we hiked to our destination for camping. We had to set up in the dark as night fell upon us very quickly. We had a collage of things for dinner and retired soon after.
Saturday John and I woke up early to enjoy the little bit of sun that we had that day. We started building the fire and enjoying conversation. Jason and Landon took the opportunity to sleep in a little late. We were soon greeted with rain that lasted the rest of the afternoon and evening. Getting a fire going and keeping it lit was very difficult but we managed to keep it going enough to eat dinner. Soon after we retired from the wet and played a couple of rounds of cards then settle in for the night.
Sunday morning was greeted with a very warming and well needed sun. John and I spent most of our early morning trying to lit a portable camp stove that only Jason seemed to be able to light. After about a good 30 minutes we went and woke Jason to give us a hand. As the morning went on we were able to built the best fire we could and enjoyed a steak and eggs breakfast cooked over the campfire. We were able to dry all that was wet in the warm sun on Sunday afternoon. We then packed up and made the journey back up the mountain to get back to were we started from late Friday afternoon.
It was a great time a good fellowship for all of us. We have talked about moving the camping trip to a new location next year. So thank you to Panthertown Valley and all your beauty. We truly enjoyed it.
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