You know, I didn't do a lot of trips this season, but the trip I did with the young men my daughters went to school with was pretty cool, and seeing all those guys would have to be the neatest thing I got to see, and they all had some pretty cool gear too.

I also got into a little squabble with some older friends who wanted to cut some trees and build a shelter on the top of a bluff at a spot that I had brought them too. They did build a fire ring there and moved some stuff around before I got there one evening but I managed to convince them not to cut a swath so they could "See the view better" and probably from erecting a townhouse. I've spent quite a few nights alone there sleeping on the ground under the trees and don't see any reason to change a thing. So, the next neatest thing I saw was that they ditched their plans