4th of July Weekend Plans

[cantdog]

Why no ME/NH/VT highpoints? Are you saving them for last?

So what are YOU doing this weekend?

Roadtrip! To Iowa.

State Highpointing trip with my partner-in-arms, Rizzo.

We're definitely hitting the highpoints of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio. From there, I'm not sure if we'll go north and pick up Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, or go south and grab Missouri and Alabama.

We'll see.

Here are the state highpoints that I have so far:

Here's my highpointing web site:
http://turzman.com/projects/highpoints/

 

[bigbog]

Re: working then relaxing

We have to work Sat/Sun at a nice crafts fair, we have a food vending business, right on the ocean just north of Brunswick, Maine....

In the surfzone, just north of Brunswick, and making $$$....not bad observer 8)
...A new carbon tourin' kayak paddle & it looks like two days(Sun & Mon) of sunshine...

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Re: working then relaxing

We have to work Sat/Sun at a nice crafts fair, we have a food vending business, right on the ocean just north of Brunswick, Maine....

In the surfzone, just north of Brunswick, and making $$$....not bad observer 8)
...A new carbon tourin' kayak paddle & it looks like two days(Sun & Mon) of sunshine...

Sounds like the weather IS supposed to be near perfect. Hoping to get to meet ya at the American Folk Festival. Just made reservations for a couple of rooms at Bangor's -3 star motel the Ranger Inn. :lol:

We are at Thomas Point Beach for the United Maine Craftsman Show. Is your new boat for the river or the ocean?

 

[bigbog]

........

observer,
Paddle is for the touring kayaks that I'm still renting :lol: ....mostly intended for the ponds & lakes inland. A great day Sunday, but my balance certainly is rusty when on my butt(instead of on my knees-&-butt..ala canoe-style) :lol: . Stayed in the shallower water for most of the day, although paddling around the edges is usually more interesting. The Festival sounds good.

 

[ChileMass]

turns in tuckerman. one more day...

I envy your dedication! :beer:

hiking for turns on june 1st was dedication, hiking for turns on july 1st is obsession :lol:

LOL Ok, I'll give you that, but I'm still envious! Have a good trip! :beer:

River - did you actually make some turns in Tuckerman's on 7/1? How about a last trip report for the 04-05 season?

 

[ChileMass]

Just back from 4 days on the Cape. The weather was phenomenal, the ice cream was cold and the sun was hot. Everyone had a ball. Marconi Beach in Eastham rules - spent the last 3 days there body-surfing (in 57-62*F water) and getting fried.

I love Cape Cod, but I may have to find another destination on the 4th of July weekend - we thought we'd be smart and leave this AM instead of last night, and we sat in 12 miles of backed-up traffic at noon today to get over the Sagamore bridge. It was f-----g ridiculous. It took 2.5 hours to go from Wellfleet to the bridge. Next year I will go back to the Cape on an off-weekend and go to the Vermont or the Berkshires for the 4th.....

 

[bvibert]

River - did you actually make some turns in Tuckerman's on 7/1? How about a last trip report for the 04-05 season?

I was wondering the same thing... Hook us up man! :beer:

 

[bvibert]

Just back from 4 days on the Cape. The weather was phenomenal, the ice cream was cold and the sun was hot. Everyone had a ball. Marconi Beach in Eastham rules - spent the last 3 days there body-surfing (in 57-62*F water) and getting fried.

I love Cape Cod, but I may have to find another destination on the 4th of July weekend - we thought we'd be smart and leave this AM instead of last night, and we sat in 12 miles of backed-up traffic at noon today to get over the Sagamore bridge. It was f-----g ridiculous. It took 2.5 hours to go from Wellfleet to the bridge. Next year I will go back to the Cape on an off-weekend and go to the Vermont or the Berkshires for the 4th.....

Glad to hear you had a good trip. The traffic is a definate draw back of the Cape to me too. The few times that we've been we always try to do the really early AM thing. Like a few years back we left CT at 1AM, The only problem is when we got to the Cape we couldn't go the house we were renting because we got there too early, so we had to screw around for awhile before we could unpack the cars... No traffic though!

 

[skijay]

I did a family trip to the Northeast Kingdom (Newport, VT) with no border crossing into Canada.

Beautiful weather but we saw 5 dead dear on I-91 in two days and missed two of the strikes by 20 minutes each time.

I stopped to going to York Beach, ME on the 4th due to traffic going up and coming back.

 

[Joshua B]

On Sunday late afternoon/early evening I was at Good Harbor beach in Gloucester, MA. The waves were good and the water temperature was amazingly mild.

On Monday late afternoon/evening I was at Lake Compounce in Bristol, CT enjoying fireworks, fried Oreos, and powerful rides on Boulder Dash Mountain Coaster.

 

[riverc0il]

River - did you actually make some turns in Tuckerman's on 7/1? How about a last trip report for the 04-05 season?

I was wondering the same thing... Hook us up man! :beer:

consider yourselves hooked up

 

[bigbog]

Monday July 4th

What a beautiful weekend up in Maine, as was everywhere in New England(I think/hope).
Took a drive around above Moosehead Lake and took a few pics on Monday. Images are simply of the pick up, point, and shoot variety....the air, sun, and bug-evaporating breeze made it the perfect day....so much so that taking time to read up on adjustments of the camera's settings was just too tough to be occupied with...

*Also....some apologies... when entering the images into Webshots, I thought I was correctly including "captions" for some of them...but only the image #s were showing up on the main page...(#$&^%($&, and I think I began to lose power...or something was happenning lense/shutter-wise on a few. I think it's finally about time to read the User Manual 8)


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