bigmacbear | Kamp Kodiak -- highlights

gmjambear, Brandy and I spent the weekend with the Northwest Bears at Kamp Kodiak. The weekend went very well, I think, but I'm just a bit sore and tired and slept a few hours almost as soon as we got into the door.

Amazing how bad traffic is even in the remote corners of King and Snohomish Counties.
Arrived Friday afternoon just in time for a mixer and weenie roast. Lots of bears and their dogs. Brandy was better behaved than I expected, letting her roam a bit helped.
Friday night we saw Murder by Death out behind the meal tent. They were going to play A Dirty Shame afterwards but people were too tired to stick around and watch.
Sleeping on the air mattress with the flannel sheets and two sleeping bags made for a toasty night's sleep despite the chill in the air.
After Saturday breakfast we sat around playing "Catch Phrase" for a while.
Cute tattooed cub was flirting with me all morning. Playful sort, enough said.
Gary and I took Brandy to the river overlook, I went down to the river and went skinny-dipping, but all those rocks made my feet hurt and I went into the water rather faster than I'd intended.
Saturday afternoon we played Hollywood Squares before dinner.
Dinner was excellent!
After dinner we had drinks at the campsite across the way from us, where the campers (one from Dallas) had set up a little tableau from Brokeback Mountain, complete with a tent (about the right size for Brandy), the two shirts, and a sign made with rope tacked to a board that read "I wish I knew how to quit you" (with a little add-on sign "ewe").
After dinner was a "Best Buns" contest.
Afterwards folks played board games, we brought "Apples to Apples" which was a big hit; others were playing "Pictionary" and I don't know how they were supposed to get "Libya" from a picture of "labia".
Got up early this morning and took pictures of the Miller River. Climbing back up out of the ravine didn't seem so difficult yesterday.

Pictures to follow, and maybe a more coherent retelling of some of the events. Later folks.