Like a flag of permanent defeat

Well, I am getting ready to take a week off and head over to the coast. I want to stop at The Crabpot for the Seafeast and shop around at REI. I have also been thinking about hiking Shishi beach and maybe going on a razor clam dig... Good times hopefully. I am also going to see if I can find some Perugia blend while I am there. I intend to leave some time around the 9th and come back before the 18th so I can make it to Octobrewfest.

Current project

May I Present "THE SHED"

In The Begining

Most of the way done. just a little more siding and some shingles...

Why am I so blind with my eyes wide open?

Here are the belated rib pics

A good start towards smoky goodness. Just another 5 hours.

A little Beer to start with.

30+ lbs of ribs.

Bachelor Party

Well last Thursday Chris and i cooked for a little party. We ended up smoking 5 racks of ribs or about 30+ lbs of meat. About twelve guys showed up. What followed can only be described as lots of great eating and drinking. Hopefuly I will get some pics up soon.

The Lake

Trying to get my hands clean in dirty water.

Well, an old friend of mine, Jared, is getting married on Saturday... Funny he finally gets to do this. I just bought my ticket. Be there Saturday afternoon. Crazy.

Backpacking Hunt Lake

Shooting 38's at 50 feet

Out Of Practice

.357 Magnum

Chris playing spooky!

Night

Our Destination: Just to the right of the little notch in the top center of the picture

On Our Way

Brother and Hiking Buddy: Chris With Mount Roothan

The Trail

Rocky Road

Big Rocks

Finding My Way

This seemed More Like Climbing.

Almost There: The Pond Below Hunt Lake.

Almost There 2

Hunt Lake

The Saddle To Fault Lake

Cooking Dinner

Bear Grass

Fishing

Cut Throat Trout

Heading Out

The Backside Of Chimney Rock

Feeling Small

Headed Down

Relaxing in Priest River

Having forgotten how good draft rootbeer is. . .

Well, having taken Friday and Monday off I am starting to get excited about the trip this weekend. That is, Chris and I are going to hike in to Hunt lake and camp. I anticipate a 2 hr or so hike over the boulder field with all the camping gear in our packs. Perhaps we will continue up around the saddle of Gunsite to Fault Lake. There is also the possibility of hiking Mt Roothan or even Chimney Rock. Should be a butt load of fun.

I think I may just have to get fat. . .

Prepped Gazpacho fixins...

Getting my grind on...

Game hens in a 3 hour bath of rootbeer, scallions, cinnamon sticks, corriander seed, ginger and garlic.

Cucumber and onion salad with red pepper.

oiled up, rubbed and ready to go.

Oh look his beer fell out of his hand.

Finaly ready. . .

The Golden bird of tasty goodness.

Time to get my eat on...

My Brother - cleaning up a little mess

The remains of the day.

Death and the dying

Well, my Black Ghostknife died today or last night actually. To bad really, I rather liked that damn fish.

To be home and lost

As she came out of the water
Matt Bauer "The Island Moved In The Storm"
comes out September 2nd.
Look for it.

Mackinaw

Well, this last weekend I went to Priest. . . Caught a nice mackinaw. 5-1/2lbs. 24 inches. A nice trip truth be told.

The Robots

Well, what you have here are a couple of newish toys. I am still way back at the begining in regards to learning to play these bad boys but they sure are fun/aggrivating. I guess the difficulty lies in the split hand technique with one hand trying to keep up with two. I will get there i'm sure. just give me six months. . . or better yet, ten years.

The beauty of a whiskey and cigarette beatdown

So Sunday, Chris and I decided to hike up tower mountain not far from my house to the towers. . . Well, it was an amazing hike. It was not to bad in the begining and it was fairly easy to find a rhythm. Further along it got quite a bit more strenuous. Humorous when you find yourself taking ten steps, resting, then repeating for say the last 100 yards or so only to wind up at about 3800 feet. Not far from the top we spotted a Moose. He was kind of rusling around and then bedded down in a thicket. Soon, we were at the top. I found it rather funny that these giant towers come down to a point on what appeared to be about an eight inch circle. The other weird thing is when you stand at the base and look up it really seems like the tower is leaning over you. I am pretty sure that is some sort of optical illusion. Well, we hiked all the way down the ridge past quite a few towers until we stumbled upon these huge rock formations on the south side of the ridge looking out over the Palouse. I was later told these are the rocks of Sharon.

We looped around till we found another ridge running back north and made the full loop back around to where we parked the car. All in all it was a great hike and I would gladly do it again. I myself returned tick free but Chris brought home two of the little vampires. I am still amazed that I have lived near here several times during my life and I have never known about this place. Crazy.