RE: September 26-28, 2003 Hickory Run Trip

[SheBantam]

 dee106
Tracy, Have not heard from Jackie. Not sure where she is or what she is doing???
 
 Dee, I will probably take that Friday off and leave out early (26th) Raymond and Jeffrey will come up after school and work or on Saturday AM. it is harder to take the camper through Rush hour on the Blue Route than it is to take the Corolla...
 
 Whitestar, I won t tell her about the bears if you don t...unless you are wanting to back out and go to Westmoreland with Tim and them[]

[whitestar505]

 SheBantam
Paula,
 
    The bears are one thing but the rain I am tired of. We will have to see as we get closer. I will be just coming back from a two week work session in N.J. also.

[SheBantam]

 dee106
Does your wife tow? If so you could meet her there.

 dee106
Sorry guys, we (Wild Wild Qwest) cancelled today. Our pet sitters (In-Laws) have been stressed with our new addition, so I called the park to inquire if they would make an exception for us to bring our puppy  Smokey  They said there are no exceptions and were not listening to my BS. We were scheduled to be on site #253, so if there are any others who would still like to go, give the park a call at 888-PA-PARKS...
 
 Woof!

[whitestar505]

 tlhdoc
Folks,
 
    After talking it over the wife, we are a little concerned about the bears with two dogs with us. Of course the wife is afraid also. We may be changing our plans to go to Westmoreland VA with statepartgirl and the rest. Still up in the air yet... [&:]

[HersheyGirl]

 dee106
The bears are too busy trying to gain their 150 pounds that they need to survive the winter, to bother with us.  We saw NO bears last year when we went to HR in Oct.  I would not let bears scare you away from a camping trip. My scouts, a couple of weeks ago were hiking 50 miles of the AT in Shenandoah NP, some bears tried to get into their bear bags, which were hanging high, the bears did not bother the boys at all, they just wanted food.  I would not worry about bears, just keep the food in the car.[8D][8D][8D]

[tlhdoc]

 dee106
Hi Beckie,
 
 Glad to see you made it home.[]

[whitestar505]

 tlhdoc
Tracy,
 
    Sorry to say, but we are going to cancel out.. Bears are ok with us just not in  the camp site. I had site 209 and have not canceled yet. Does anyone want it, and if so is there a way to change names? We decided to go south to Westmoreland with stateparkgrl and crew for this trip. Hopefully we can get together soon.. whitestar505

[tlhdoc]

 dee106
Whitestar sorry to miss you again.
 
 Wild Wild Quest if you are still interested in camping with us, site 209 is a pet site and now available.
 
 If anyone has an email address for Wild Wild Quest please send them an email and let them know the site is open.

[DiW]

 dee106
Tracy,
 I think WWQ opted out of the HR trip to go to Westmoreland. I see they ve already booked with the other group.
 Di

[tlhdoc]

 dee106
Thanks Di.

[debbiedee1957]

 dee106
It s cold & wet in the Pocono s....feel s like Fall already!!!!!  I am wondering if I am crazy to camp in late Sep??  I think we just may freeze our you know what s off!!!  Burrrrrrrr.  It really has been a cool summer here, only a handful of days warmer than low 80 s.  The locals & oldtimers say it s supposed to be a very hard winter here, worse than last year & that was bad enough for me.  Last year we had over a inch of snow on the ground while trick or treating and it didn t stop for the most part until late March, early April.
 I have to try to get a ceramic heater before we go, I have been looking at the stores but haven t seen them out yet.
 I plan on bringing a lot of wood for a big fire!
 

[tlhdoc]

 dee106
Debbie that sounds like a good idea.  Last year we camped in October on the last weekend the campground was open.  It was cool, but not frigid.

[DiW]

 dee106
We ll just have to sit real close together around the campfire. Tracy & Beckie, don t forget your down booties [].
 Di

[tlhdoc]

 dee106
Di we keep them in the PU so we don t have to pack them each trip.[]