Just took the last weekend in July off from work (fri-mon). Looking forward to another year of karaoke on an LCD (generator powered), turducken roasted over the campfire, way too much beer/food, tabletop battleship with shots, and making the girl row the canoe. Hoping for relatively shallow water levels, clear skies, no bugs, and less douchebags at fiddlehead!

1.) your Karaoke nights are not the real Karaoke nights
2.) your Saco trips arent the real Saco trips.

id be into this, but only if it's laserdisk karaoke

3.) Buurrrnnnnnn

i plan on missing both trips equally for reasons beyond my control

I've seen pictures of the glum faces in near-autumn scenery from your saco "trips," aril. I'm sure it's just because you want the chance to show off your metal shirt wardrobe, whereas I pride myself with exposing my hairy navel for the whole weekend. And what do you know about karaoke? I heard you were afraid of singing non-grim vocals.

those Saco trips are the real Saco trips.

change "canoe" to "rock climbing" and i'm sold.

FYI, boats are "rowed" and canoes are "paddled".

ITT: Boats and hoes

Thanks. Our Saco trips aren't a "paddling" and carry-the-canoe competition. We get in, crack beers, and let the current take us down until we find a nice secluded camping spot.

Only what you do is real? SUBJECTIVE

fake is the new real

July= douches everywhere. Dice K and the Douchebags

only climbing is real.


bennyhillifier

lol@exerting energy on anything besides sex and mountain biking

only september on an empty river is drunk.

i do this enough with friends and my dad but this would be kinda fun with the right people.

Im pretty sure I dislike 80% of the rttp posters IRL though.


Also...has anyone seen that movie 127 Hours with James Franco? people into outdoor adventuring should def see it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1542344/

:c

I try to be disliked here and not one rttp person has tried to fight about it :(

I think I'm probably closer to the 90% mark.

I would put it at 95%.

I like everyone except for 3 people that don't post much.

Boatpaddlers.

i would back this, except i'm a motorboatin' son of a bitch.

excellent flick

also, electronics have no place when on a trip like this. leave your bullshit at home.

who's the technocrat that brought the generator?

oh I thought I was invited. sigh.

rev you can bring your iPad only if you are menstruating

Yezz

I'm always menstruating.

My drummer is an electrician and several of us are geeks. Nature and canoeing/camping are still enjoyed, but it's fun to have a project work out, like doing one night of river karaoke on a 32" lcd. Apologies to the chipmunks for offending them with our voices.

Also, the look on the rangers' faces as they speed by on their boats is pretty priceless.

the only other people we saw in the whole river were a group that flipped their canoe when they were loading it, and a portly gentleman taking a dip.

I like being in the water when it's warm out. I understand the reason you guys go on the off-season though. To each his own.

LOVES WARM WATER

..DOESNT GO WHEN THE OAKS ARE BARREN

i bring an ipod/phone on camping trips for pictures and tunes...

NO TECHNOLOGY. NO SUN. NO FUN.

Geothermal powered portable vinyl player or false

set up and easle and paint the view you want to photograph or gaysexual

actually we did have tunes one night, we were yelling out the evil that men do

Do a Jordan about it.

LOL for reel big fish

I'm suprised Hoser isn't in this thread telling you all how much he hates you and everyone else that does the saco river trip.

Alex, your trip sounds like a blast. I can imagine the looks on the patrol guys' faces! We were belting out Maiden in the middle of the night and there wasn't another soul around for at least a mile to hear it. Good times.
I know a ton of people who like going in the summertime and that's fine for them, but I started organizing the September trip to get away from people, internet, and modern luxuries. Its good to disconnect / reset at least once a year if not more often. Plus I genuinely enjoy the challenge of minimalist hiking / camping. If I knew more about foraging and had the opportunity to learn bow/spear hunting, I'd make myself rely on those skills rather than packing hot dogs and dehydrated meals in bags. Buuut I grew up in the city and have never had anyone to teach me that stuff. Oh well.

Just buy a fishing rod and a license. Tip a roostertail spinner with a worm and troll it behind the canoe. You'll catch something.

Water was/is too shallow for good fish. The lake at the end would be great, though.

somehow i doubt that water was too shallow for fish.

GOOD fish.

Yeah, all there are in there are minnows and brown trout

ha! i own land in new hampshire, and on that land is a stretch of river much too shallow to ever even think about bringing a canoe/kayak down....i routinely catch fish 8-14 inches long

All you do is find deeper holes behind a run. Trout/bass/whatever will stack up there and wait for the river to bring food to them.

You would all starve in the woods.

I am not convinced that there'd be many GOOD fish on the Saco stretch that is the most frequently used recreational river in the country. Yes, there's probably some, but i'd throw money down on it. especially last year, I didnt see one fish unless we were closer to a larger body of water.

And by good, I mean meaty. Obviously theres fish, but I'd want to go elsewhere if we're talking about good fish to eat.

Haha, if you could SEE all the fish, so could the osprey and any other predator. Trout use natural camo in shallow water to remain elusive. If you don't wet a line, you'll never know.

In before "I'd rather snort a line than wet a line".

Id rather wet a line nilla

My "in before" wasn't directed at you.

Outdoors > anything else. The more I'm surrounded by people, the more I want to leave and go off of the grid.

only rock climbing is real...

Are you into rock climbing at all, Duke?

No, i just get my friends to take pictures of me on lead on a multipitch route for shits and giggles.

That's awesome.

Just bought for this year's trip: www.amazon.com/Intex-58827E-River-Run-II/dp/B001DAWY1Y/

Paddles always got in the way of my beer anyway.

This still stands.

Fiscal year reports are all due around 10/1, I'd be grimacing with y'all in the fall if it made sense.