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Current River Float Trip

Here are the pictures, we’ll write something on it later. We floated down the river with the Armstrongs Memorial Day Weekend. It was so much fun.

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Camping with Gainers

We’ve been wanting to go camping with our friends, the Gainers, for a while and after we finally found a weekend that worked for all of us we did. We drove down to Swan Creek and got a campsite, but it wasn’t that great of a campsite (there was a dead rotting fish by the fire pit and a big group of loud drunk people pretty close to us).

Anyway, we were willing to move the fish because it wasn’t that close to us and ignore the people because they weren’t being that loud. So we set up camp, made dinner, and played games. Masen was having a really hard time sleeping and was kind of grumpy. We kept playing games and finally decided to go home when the people camping close to us were being so loud that Masen couldn’t sleep.

We decided go home and so we started packing up camp. We heard some pretty Micky Blue Eyes, I can’t tell you what happened because I fell asleep in the first 10 minutes. So everyone watched the movie and then the next day we went to some garage sales. We got a cook corner shelf that we put in the downstairs bathroom. We had a pretty awesome time with them and we’re going to go camping again with them.

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Table Rock Lake – Canoeing

So we finally got car racks for our toyota corolla so we could attach the canoe that Emily’s parents gave us to the car.  On April 17th and 18th, we went canoeing on the Table Rock Lake.  We had a blast!  It was so beautiful.  I kind of did underestimate the distance of the canoeing.  We ended up going about 8 miles each way.  We started at Cape Fair public use area and canoed into the Piney Creek Wilderness area.  There was a perfect campsite which was at the base of the trail that leads into the wilderness area.  In the morning, when we started canoeing again, it was so pretty.  It has gotten below freezing during the night and so there was tons of steam on the lake and it was really pretty.  There weren’t very many people on the lake, probably due to it not being “perfect” weather.  Emily was a real sport going with me.

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Elevation Profile

# Distance Time Movingtime Speed Max Speed Climb Up Climb Down
1 0.000 mi 0s 0s - - - -
2 1.007 mi 23m 16s 23m 16s 2.60 mph 3.58 mph 112 ft 118 ft
3 2.004 mi 48m 55s 48m 55s 2.46 mph 3.63 mph 180 ft 194 ft
4 3.007 mi 1h 12m 23s 1h 12m 23s 2.49 mph 3.65 mph 243 ft 256 ft
5 4.002 mi 1h 38m 01s 1h 38m 01s 2.45 mph 3.65 mph 318 ft 341 ft
6 5.003 mi 2h 06m 15s 2h 06m 15s 2.38 mph 3.65 mph 410 ft 436 ft
7 6.002 mi 2h 30m 02s 2h 30m 02s 2.40 mph 4.01 mph 492 ft 515 ft
8 7.006 mi 2h 52m 37s 2h 52m 37s 2.44 mph 4.13 mph 597 ft 610 ft
9 8.001 mi 4h 00m 26s 3h 33m 23s 2.00 mph 16.28 mph 928 ft 955 ft
10 9.001 mi 16h 07m 18s 4h 15m 13s 0.56 mph 59.52 mph 1552 ft 1575 ft
11 10.012 mi 16h 28m 30s 4h 36m 25s 0.61 mph 59.52 mph 1591 ft 1614 ft
12 11.010 mi 16h 49m 21s 4h 57m 16s 0.65 mph 59.52 mph 1644 ft 1663 ft
13 12.008 mi 17h 11m 50s 5h 19m 45s 0.70 mph 59.52 mph 1686 ft 1706 ft
14 13.006 mi 17h 36m 46s 5h 44m 41s 0.74 mph 59.52 mph 1814 ft 1841 ft
15 14.007 mi 18h 02m 32s 6h 10m 27s 0.78 mph 59.52 mph 1873 ft 1896 ft
16 15.005 mi 18h 25m 23s 6h 33m 18s 0.81 mph 59.52 mph 1939 ft 1962 ft
17 15.594 mi 18h 57m 19s 6h 46m 10s 0.82 mph 59.52 mph 2037 ft 2024 ft
Summary 15.594 mi 18h 57m 19s 6h 46m 10s

Table Rock Lake

Hercules Glade Wilderness Area

On March 19th to the 20th, we wanted to go camping (well, probably mostly me) and so we went to Hercules Glade Wilderness area.  We didn’t do any hiking but since we haven’t been there for a while, we decided to go.  Emily packed a wonderful meal with dessert.  It was fun.

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Talbot Conservation Area

March 5th to 6th, we went to the Talbot Conservation area on the Spring River Nature Trail that is there.  We hiked the trail which was really pretty.  There were overlook areas to the river which were pretty.  After hiking, we camped in the conservation area’s camping area.  We were the only ones there.  We ended up forgetting our stove’s fuel so we couldn’t cook anything but fortunately we also brought Emily’s homemade crackers and cheeseball so we were fine.  We ended up sleeping in the car and probably didn’t get the best night’s sleep ever.  But it was a fun time.

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Elevation Profile

# Distance Time Movingtime Speed Max Speed Climb Up Climb Down
1 0.000 mi 0s 0s - - - -
2 1.000 mi 30m 08s 29m 19s 1.99 mph 6.29 mph 896 ft 712 ft
3 2.011 mi 1h 14m 08s 1h 12m 21s 1.63 mph 9.40 mph 1394 ft 1240 ft
4 2.081 mi 1h 16m 00s 1h 13m 50s 1.64 mph 9.40 mph 1503 ft 1362 ft
Summary 2.081 mi 1h 16m 00s 1h 13m 50s

Spring River Nature Trail

Camping Deluxe

Emily surprised me when I came home from work on Friday January 15th.  She had everything packed to go camping and wouldn’t tell me where we were going or what we were going to eat.  Well, we ended up camping at the Swan Creek area like we’ve done before.  It was really muddy but we found a spot to put up our tent.  Then Emily set up the stove and warmed up some delicious homemade french bread with spaghetti sauce, breaded chicken and aged New Zealand cheddar cheese I got from work.  It was delicious.  Then we played some games.  Then Emily brought out some creme brulee she had made previously (post on that to come).  Then to top it all off, we had smores.  It was fun.  We slept really well and woke up to the sound of rain on our tent.  That would have been fine under ordinary circumstances; however, the dirt road we drove on to get to the site was really muddy and we actually almost got stuck the night before so we quickly packed everything up and shoved it in the car and drove away.  We then went to Glade Top Trail (which was Emily’s surprise) but I’ll write a separate post about that.

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