You may be right then.

Here are my Camp Swank 2008 photos

Here are some highlights:

Okay, I'm impatient. Please forgive me for reposting things I'd accidentally posted in the Sooo... thread:

Okay, time for some pics.


I arrived Friday night/Saturday morning at about 2:30am (give or take), so I slept in my car that first night. Didn't sleep long, of course, so I was up with the morning crowd.

Thurston finds himself in a bit of a pickle


Alex arrived shortly after I got up, camera in hand.


DP and FP lounge it up while the breakfast team gets cracking


Thurston is still in a pickle


Mommy? A little help please? (Actually, I include this because I have only a few pics that include Susan, and this is one of them)


My home away from home


Thurston gets lovies


Thurston gets delightfully dirty. Note the goatee of dirt


Morning on "our" river. Or is it evening? I slept through the middle of the day, so this could be either half.


The essence of Camp Swank



More to come...

And some more:

Capt Jack "The Taquito Kid" takes another bite


Mmm... campfire (it was freakishly cold that night, even for camping), and a dutch oven full of Susan's hand-rolled taquitos


Without the flash, it was actually this dark




Okay, actually, this is about right


Squirrel!


Just one part of the "Estate du Swank"


One thing I tried on this trip was to focus a bit more on portraits (I usually photograph landscapes almost exclusively). So here's Kevy.


So, Zumwalt Meadows?


Pretty! (Can't help it, I love landscapes)










Avant Garde waterfall worship




Spider Ken, Spider Ken, does whatever a Spider Ken does...

More pics





Gemini Cricket in repose




There's like, rocks and stuff




















Capt Jack takes a picture of swankers on the bridge

And the last of my accidentally-posted-to-the-Sooo...-thread-pics:

I'm Sammy the Snake and I sing about the letter Ssssssssss.... oh yessss...




I'll post more later. Hopefully in the right thread ;)

It's the hat. They should never be allowed to camp with the same hat.

We brought some. But it was gray. And it went unused

If you went to sites 13 & 14, you found them empty. Those were our sites used strictly for extra parking and bear boxes (the one thing that was wrong with Sheep Creek was the fact that there is only one bear box per site).

Us too, but we resolved that problem by bringing a queen sized bed with linens (including a feather mattress and comforter).

Did someone mention Joyce?



Kevy kept his pants on to prevent roasting.

I had a hard time falling asleep last night without the sounds of the river.

Following the leader, the leader, the leader...




"The Old Couple"... they were cute, and they did eventually make it back ;)










NA re-enacts the early days of the Sierra Club on Muir's Pulpit




I just LOVE this picture

I've uploaded all of my pics here (and I do mean all).

A few highlights:

The first bear sighting. Thurston went nuts barking at these guys in the drive thru line in Oakhurst.




Can we go home now?


GC relaxing at the Awahnee.



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