Northeast Side by Side Classic - June 4, 5, and 6

[Opening Day]

Originally Posted by Kenny Graft

I would like to join the fun too! Do they have camping set up area? I may have to bring my Gordon setter with me.

Kenny, talk to Edgar he camped there last year.

[edgarspencer]

Allan McLane and I have camped twice. The first year we were the only ones there, several more last year. True tent camping beats a motel any day.

[C.O.B.]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

True tent camping beats a motel any day.

Who needs a nice comfortable bed, hot shower, and indoor piumbing

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Rich Anderson

Who needs a nice comfortable bed, hot shower, and indoor piumbing

Apparently you do. My air mattress and cot are about as comfortable as it gets, and I'll take skeeters over bed bugs any day.

[Allan McLane]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

Allan McLane and I have camped twice. The first year we were the only ones there, several more last year. True tent camping beats a motel any day.

Last year we were joined by Matt Valinsky and Craig Smith, among others.

There's a big advantage to being able to nurse an adult beverage well into the evening with pleasant company and not having to worry about going anywhere else!

[Dean Romig]

Kenny, a few folks pitch tents up in the end of the parking field. No electricity, no water, no toilet facilities up there... and probably no open fires.

[Dean Romig]

Self-serving rationalizing....

[OH Osthaus]

yup - absolutely

I camped for years of French and Indian war reenacting - no modern nothing -

a bed and breakfast is rough enough of us these days

[Cold Spring]

So our landscape people were here today for spring cleanup. My owner friend told me one of his crews was doing some gas pipeline remedial work out near Hausmann's on Tuesday of this week. And believe it or not they ran into frost in the ground at a depth of 2.5 feet. Coldest winter in exactly 100 years according to the records. Maybe things will thaw by June?

[Allan McLane]

Originally Posted by Frank Srebro

So
... And believe it or not they ran into frost in the ground at a depth of 2.5 feet.

I had a first-hand report from an excavator operator of frozen ground 5' deep in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.