How fast can a weekend fly by?
This year the dude with the Swedish accent was actually able to locate the location of the event
There were a fair amount of pre-parties going on around the campground and during the afternoon and evening there was a steady flow of people migrating towards the main stage area by SK's house. Great music were played and the discoball had to go up quickly. Ashley (Gris's daughter) helped me locate a ladder and a figured out a good tree between the house and the stage. Up it went but a few minutes later the whole branch on which it sat came crashing down missing a very valuable guitar by two feet or so.....and more importantly there was no "death by discoball" having to be reported from BL 2008. Another tree closer to the stage was selected and this time it stayed up through Sunday
Mtmama among many others made sure thee were no hungry hikers in a 10-mile radius. A lot of familiar and new faces were there and most of the evening was spent socializing and listen to some great bands.....portapotties were arranged for this year and the two were designated "Women" and "Ladies"....hmmmm.....the evening was wicked good
The big discussion regarding hiking was whether to go to Old Speck or Baldfaces.....I ended up with a 10-person group heading for Old Speck. Dr Wu, Giggy, MEB, Little Sister, Gillian, 7Summits, Mountaingirl, DaveBear, JayH and myself met up at the TH and spent about 20 minutes talking about Birmingham Bootie Calls and other hiking related matters before heading up the Eyebrow Trail. Some interesting fixed handholds and steel wires were set up to aid the steep sections. Great views, warm weather and high humidity made us sweat a lot....enjoyed the views from the top of the ledges before we came to the intersection at 2,500 feet where the AT joins in. DaveBear had carved his initials and time stamp on a mushroom here......11:30 DB it said......this gives a hint of how late we started
Moved on up with lenghty breaks and discussions which were interesting to say the least......eventually we made it to the summit and the tower. most of us went up the ladder...someone also skipped the ladder tand scaled the outside all the way up.......
We snacked took pictures of various kind before heading back down and dipped in a creek before coming back to the parkinglot around 5-ish. After buying roadside pies we bought some more food and back to campground were more pre-parties were going on.....and on to BL and loads of fun including dancing, pie-eating, seeing how many people SK's beachbeds could hold......
Wicked wicked fun.......used a brush to keep the discoball going and laser pointers to make it more dramatic.....it was very late before heading back to the tents and a few hours of sleep before the sun came up again......30-40 of us went to thei breakfast place......had some dancing to Billie Jean (M. Jackson song) in the parking lot before invading the restaurant......back to Sk and relaxing with different types of watersport for the rest of the day.
For some reason I didn't take a lot of photos.....it was too much fun to have time to document this fantastic event.....someone else will have to tell more about the music performed..........Thanks SherpaKroto and everyone who made this thing happen!
