So Cloak last weekend invited my up to his Gorge house for the... God knows how many times I've been up there. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Awesome time we had. This is day one.

For day one we decided to go down to Delicourt Hill and move up along the creek.

Here's a pic of Delicourt.



Down the valley and almost at Delicourt facing away.



Ahhh... the Sun is high above us.



Here's a pic of the creek.



Pulled back a little.



Cloak also had his camera and decided to take some pics.

Trail leading up the hill side.



Trail leading down the hill side



Base of Delicourt.



Cloak's RMD. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />



This is from the other side of the creek looking back at the path we took down.

I took this one.


Cloak took this one.
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We found a big pile of fatwood.

Here's me prying off a piece of the rotten bark. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> GOOD STUFF!!!!

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Cloak on the other side of the creek and at the foot of Delicourt.

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Cloak horsing around. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

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We started walking along the other side of the creek but got bored and ultimately decided to do some rock jumping.

Here's one where we are sitting on a rock in the middle of the stream.

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And another. It's so beautiful out here.

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Cloak also had some great shots of the river.

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And knife content. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

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Here's the two of us. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

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On our way back we encountered a rattlesnake. Cloak just barely got a pic of it. It was pretty decently sized.

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It, oddly enough, didn't rattle at us. It slithered right behind Cloak and into the rock. It was good thing that we didn't agitate it. Pretty scary considering Cloaks foot was a mere centimeter away from the snake.

We also found a nice pile of fatwood. Here's me, just using Cloak's flint striker and plain fat wood to start a fire. We didn't use anything else, no matches, no tinder, no dry grass. Just fatwood and flint. It was good.

Cloak took all these pics

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This stuff is really awesome. Notice the steam that is coming from the ashes. Coolest thing I've ever seen. This stuff smells real nice and burns real well.

As I said, we found a big pile of this stuff so when next morning came we set off to get some more fatwood. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />