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Camping, AFKs
« on: September 07, 2006, 05:34:36 pm »
Just so you all know, I'm going camping this weekend.  I'm leaving first thing tomorrow morning (Friday) and coming back on Monday, probably late afternoon/early evening. 

I'm going to Beresford Lake, which is in Nopiming park.  It's about a 4 hour drive north-east of Winnipeg, near the Manitoba-Ontario border. 

You can find a map here].  Although it's not marked in Google Maps, if you look at where the road turns like a ), it's just on the left side of that turn.  Going north, the road crosses a river (manigitogin, or something), then goes around Beresford lake, then makes a right-angle turn near Long Lake (the long one :P), which is where my grandparents' cottage is.

I'm going to bring my camera, and hopefully we see some wildlife that isn't bears.  I'll let y'all know how it went when I get back.


You probably don't care about how it goes.  But the thing is, if anything happens to my server after tomorrow morning, it's probably dead till Monday.  Sorry!

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Re: Camping, AFKs
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2006, 05:57:41 pm »
I love the last paragraph. In the case it dies, all discussion that would be made on these boards will be taken to iago's forum on vL so he has a lot of new posts to sort through when he gets home and buys a UPS and static IP. :)
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: Camping, AFKs
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2006, 10:34:25 pm »
Oh cool! My uncle's cottage is right beside Nopiming Provincial park! Nice area. :D

Except you have to drive on gravel road for like 20-30 minutes in order to get to it.. :(
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Re: Camping, AFKs
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2006, 05:43:18 pm »
There's only two roads through Nopiming, and I've been down both 100 times -- which lake is your grandpa's cottage at?  I'm sure I know it :)

It's about 2 hours on gravel for where we were, but it's totally worth it. 

Anyways, I'm home, and I'm glad to see the site still works.  I'll post more details later, a lot of funny/stupid stuff happened.  And I only saw one bear, and it was from the safety of the car, so I didn't get eaten :)

More later!

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Re: Camping, AFKs
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2006, 05:44:40 pm »
And I only saw one bear, and it was from the safety of the car, so I didn't get eaten :)

pshh, the real question is did you eat the bear or woman out?

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Re: Camping, AFKs
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2006, 06:08:57 pm »
In reality, iago saw a picture of himself in a bear suit on slayer, who rode in the passenger seat. I've heard of people giving themselves blowjobs (don't ask, it wasn't voluntairly discussed on my part) but I sure hope he didn't try.
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: Camping, AFKs
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2006, 06:39:43 pm »
And I only saw one bear, and it was from the safety of the car, so I didn't get eaten :)

pshh, the real question is did you eat the bear or woman out?
It was running down the road for about 2 seconds, saw me, and ran into the woods.  But you can be sure that if he hadn't, I probably would have fought him with my bare hands.

In reality, iago saw a picture of himself in a bear suit on slayer, who rode in the passenger seat. I've heard of people giving themselves blowjobs (don't ask, it wasn't voluntairly discussed on my part) but I sure hope he didn't try.
I have no idea what you're talking about.  But if you're talking about 'slayer' my laptop, it doesn't contain that picture, nor did it come with me.  It stayed right here where it's safe. 

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« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2006, 06:45:17 pm »
But you can be sure that if he hadn't, I probably would have fought him with my bare hands.

You'd kick its ass too.  After you killed it, you'd probably rip its heart out and eat it!

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Re: Camping, AFKs
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2006, 07:09:25 pm »
And I only saw one bear, and it was from the safety of the car, so I didn't get eaten :)

pshh, the real question is did you eat the bear or woman out?
It was running down the road for about 2 seconds, saw me, and ran into the woods.  But you can be sure that if he hadn't, I probably would have fought him with my bare hands.
I don't find you that scary looking :(!
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Re: Camping, AFKs
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2006, 08:08:54 pm »
But you can be sure that if he hadn't, I probably would have fought him with my bare hands.

You'd kick its ass too.  After you killed it, you'd probably rip its heart out and eat it!

Duh.  How else would I get his power?

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Re: Camping, AFKs
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2006, 09:38:29 pm »
There's only two roads through Nopiming, and I've been down both 100 times -- which lake is your grandpa's cottage at?  I'm sure I know it :)

It's about 2 hours on gravel for where we were, but it's totally worth it. 

Anyways, I'm home, and I'm glad to see the site still works.  I'll post more details later, a lot of funny/stupid stuff happened.  And I only saw one bear, and it was from the safety of the car, so I didn't get eaten :)

More later!
*Uncle and it's Booster Lake, I think.

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Re: Camping, AFKs
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2006, 11:20:46 pm »
Grandpa, Uncle, whatever! :P.  And hmm, I don't know Booster Lake, I guess I don't know lakes that far away from Nopiming.  Oh well! 

Anyway, I upload pictures: http://www.javaop.com/~ron/ospap/show_category.php?category_id=34

And, here's the story for anybody who feels like reading.  I'll try to keep it brief, while explaining everything .....

We left Friday morning.  We drove about 4 hours to get there in our rental car.  It was just me and a friend.  Our car was packed tight, and we thought we had everything.  Ha.  We both like the same music, sort of, so we had a good time going there.  We stopped for gas half way, in a town called Lac Du Bonnet.  Then we passed my friend's friend's cottage, which is on Bird River, which was pretty cool.  Eventually, we saw a couple deer, and later a bunch of prairie chickens.  I am convinced that Prairie Chickens are the dumbest animals ever, when I stopped right behind them and honked and they kept looking around like feathered little morons.  The only other event on the way in was stopping at Shoe Lake to use the washrooms. 

We got there, and set up the tent and table and everything, and that went smoothly.  Eventually, we realized that we forgot to bring a can opener, which sucked because eating canned food would be tricky.  When my friend asked for the camp-stove, I handed her the camp-barbecue.  She asked me where the stove was.  I thought that WAS the stove!  Since I packed, we didn't have one.  Uh oh! 

After getting set up, we did a little drive to my grandparent's cottage, which is at Long Lake.  They just happened to have a little stove and a spare can opener.  They were happy to see we got there safely (the roads are a little treacherous at times).  So we got what we needed from them, with a promise I'd visit them on Saturday or Sunday, and went back to cook dinner.  On the way back we saw a fox carrying a rabbit.  It ran down a road towards an old goldmine, so we followed it but it quickly lost us.  We walked around some old ruins there, they were neat. 

So we go to cook, and start to realize we're missing things (like milk and butter -- made it hard to make Kraft Dinner).  Eventually it occurred to me that we were missing everything we'd bought at Wal-Mart, which was mostly everything we bought.  For supper, I had Kraft Dinner with no milk/butter and some smokies cooked over the fire.  My friend had bacon. 

We were both tired, so we made a camp fire and listened to music and stuff for the evening.  She turned in about 8pm or so, and I stayed up till about 10.  I sat by the lake in the cold, watching the mist come up, with a full moon, reading Edger Allan Poe stories with a flashlight.  That was pretty amazing.  Eventually, I went for a walk around the campground (without a flashlight, the moon was so bright).  There were only 2 other sites in use, and no bears.

On Saturday, my friend slept in late, till around 12:00pm (16 hours!).  I got up pretty early, warmed up by the fire (I was totally frozen), then read my book for a few hours.  For breakfast, I had pizza pops cooked over the fire (I don't think you have those in the US, but they're pizza fillings in a bread shell thing).  For lunch, I had dry instant noodles.  Eventually, we went to a drive to the nearest town, Bissett, which is about an hour away.  We bought groceries (for outrageous prices -- it's a mining town of less than 1000 people with one store).  The lady running the store was a total loudmouth bitch, we loved her.  I backed the rental car into a giant tire outside the store, hopefully they won't notice the black mark when I take it back :-o.  There's something about tiny isolated mining towns that scares me.  I always feel like an outsider, and I'm always sure that they have some kind of horrible secret that they can't tell anybody about.  They're all vampires or they worship Satan or they sacrifice children or something, who knows?  Later, we went fishing by our campsite.  After about an hour, my friend got bored and left.  5 minutes later, I caught a jackfish (see my pictures).  It wasn't huge, but my friend was totally upset, having never fished before (I've fished lots). The hook was wedged really good in his mouth, so I had to use the glove thing to get a good grip on it.   

Saturday night, we read a book of campfire ghost stories.  Of course, we tried to scare each other in stupid ways, such as:
Her: can you get me the Oreos?
Me: how have you already eaten half of them? 
Her: I haven't opened them yet!
Me: Then who did (dududu!)
Throughout the story, I could hear rustling in the forest behind me.  My friend kept saying that I was trying to scare her, because she couldn't hear it, but I kept hearing it without seeing what was causing it.  I figured it was a rabbit or a vole or something.  It wasn't until the next night that I caught it -- it was a frog. 

On Sunday, I went to my grandparents' for a couple hours, and visited their neighbours.  On my way there, I saw a bear walking down the road.  My friend was totally disappointed because she wanted to see a bear so badly.  Apparently the Neighbours (the Andersonses) saw the bear while out for a walk, and they walked backwards back to their cottage.  The rest of the day, I read some more and not much else.  Our barbecue broke, so we cooked hamburgers over the fire pit.  I wish I got pictures, it was a pretty huge flame. 

Then today, we came back home.  We stopped at Chicken Chef on the way home and had a good meal, and got home, unpacked, and here we are! 

So yeah, enjoy the pictures :)

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Re: Camping, AFKs
« Reply #12 on: September 11, 2006, 11:42:18 pm »
You went to a secluded area with a chick and didn't get any?  And why the fuck is the moon as bright as the sun?  Canadaland isn't THAT different....

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« Reply #13 on: September 11, 2006, 11:44:59 pm »
You went to a secluded area with a chick and didn't get any?
Who say he didn't :O!
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« Reply #14 on: September 11, 2006, 11:48:10 pm »
Because we're just good friends.  Nothing romantic.  You can be friends with a female, you know! 

And the reason it's so bright (as I explained in the caption) is that I had it on high-exposure, the only way to get a good picture in the dark.  The shutter was open for 800ms (iirc), which lets in a lot of light.