Must've been a good weekend, eh?
So here's how things went down. JBook, unfortunately, had to bow out last minute, but we're looking forward to seeing him next time, for sure. Pete, I didn't see that post of yours until today, but we're planning on some group day hikes in the snow and another Indy Moot come spring, possibly before the due date of your contest, so there's plenty of time for that.
Attendance racked up to be myself, Odigan, an old friend of his named Dave (who has recently joined the forum, in fact!), and Lori. For the first (to my knowledge) true trekking moot on the forum, it wasn't a bad showing.
We hiked in on friday around a gorgeous, pristine small lake through indiana's fine forest terrain.
We set up camp alongside a streambed on a raised portion of the forest bed that sloped into the creek, just in case the weather turned wet.
Odigan's Lean-to Shelter
Everyone brought their own food, but diets varied from corn mash to wheat bread to a whole roast chicken, with the best salt in the shire, naturally.
And, of course, we did some stump shooting. There are a plethora of rotten stumps and logs around the hills throughout the area, and we're making plans to, on the next moot when we have some more attendees, hold a roving Archery contest, and possibly a modified speed shooting "combat" contest that we've got in the works. In short, this location would be worth the trip, if you're interested!
Odigan:
The weather was supposed to drop down to the mid 20's at night, but the weatherman was wrong, and the evenings didn't drop below the 40's. It was rather comfortable. I know Odigan has more photos, but this is all that was on my camera, so enjoy until he has a chance to hop on and throw up his.
This was also Lori's first time camping with me while in my gear. Hopefully by the next time we go out I'll have a kit finished and ready to go for her as well. No bird yet this time (stupid paperwork and such), but we're on our way! I'm going to head on over to the old "lessons learned" thread and throw up some insights and mistakes made this time around. The more you go out into the woods, the more you learn and the more there is to discuss here, so if I may be subtle...get out there!
