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[QUOTE="2strok4fun, post: 1078558, member: 29753"] Getting out on time seems always a difficult thing to do for me and my family and with trying to finish a renovation to the kids room and getting the house and yard ready for a upcoming surprise party it was especially difficult to attempt to get ready to leave, let alone leave on time. I was surprised when we were able to pull away at 5:20 am, I was targeting 5:00 to hopefully beat some traffic along with some of the heat desert will generate this time of year. The drive out was uneventful with only 1 stop to grab some fast food breakfast sandwiches. We head up 9 mile canyon and I try to keep my attention to the potentially deadly road as DJ asks me the 10,000 questions ranging from “where does the water in the big water pipe come from?” to “How are the trees growing back from the fire?” OK. Mommy, can you field a few? I got to drive. We arrive at Fish Creek CG at about 10:20, made good time for pulling up the trailer and family. I do notice the DRN- TROY paper plate sign on the bottom of a long string of plate signs. I choose to ignore the TROY portion of the sign thinking maybe somebody is expecting a friend named Troy. Alright, I should have caught it but I have been working off of little sleep for about 10 days now (first excuse of many) Of course there were no familiar rigs / people in Fish but some friendly people offered some soon to be emptied spots. We pull in to Troy overflow (how long has Troy been down for now?) and immediately spot the DRN plate pointing to the left. Thank you for those that took the time to post the directions. I pull up to the spigot in Troy O.F. that someone at Fish said was functioning and proceed to take as much water as I can hold. I spot the familiar vehicles and find that a nice “cull-de-sac” location has been chosen. After some discussion about where to park, I set up and level the trailer only to find that I ended up taking up more than my share of the allotted real estate. (there should be some excuse here but I just dont have a good one) Big schaft and family with 426 pilot and family arrive later and maneuver their rigs into the little space I left for them. Seeing as I wasn’t planning to do any riding on this Saturday, I was able to relax soak up the Sierra fresh air and a few Sierra Nevada’s of the liquid variety, and hang out and socialize with Big Schaft and 426 pilots (but rides a 450) families. Nice people and have some younger kids and dogs that my boys will torment/ play with. Kim, my wife informed me prior to this trip that at the time the battery in the John Deere (the electric car that I said I would never get kids before I had kids) is out, so is the fuel on my 2 wheeled toy. Good thing I made a trip to Wally world to buy a 75 amp hr marine battery to power the battery consuming kids toy, as the provided 12 amp hr battery was done before sunset on Saturday. Some of the gang, Placelast, The Eel, KelsoRat and others returned from their afternoon trip thru the forest. The dirt on all of their faces showed the telltale dusty conditions this area can be known for. We catch up some and I am curious to find how Placelast, (John) is enjoying his new to him KTM rfs big bore 350 something (I remember enjoying a short blast in the dez on this mount, nice), John seems pleased so far. Scar shows up around 4:30 after a hell trip thru holiday traffic and searing heat. Kav shows up and I spot the large fryer he posted about, mmmm this is getting good. I toss some chicken on the smoker and after a couple hours notice the slow progress of the cooking. Seems as tho the mixed hardwood isn’t jetted for the 8000 elevation and didn’t start as hot as it should. I result in turning the smoker into a direct fire bbq and get them finished up in time to eat before it gets too dark. It turns out nothing more than passable but heck it will make easy snakins between loops tomorrow. That evening is typical campfire fare but did lack some of the drawn out conversations that only a group of internet and tech minded geeks find interesting usually resulting in sending the girls of to an early bed. Some marshmallow roastin, stargazing and good ol’ hangin out, then I hit the bed relatively early. Continued………………… [/QUOTE]
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