{"id":1576,"date":"2014-09-19T14:30:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T14:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2025-04-21T17:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:41:54","slug":"mancation-7-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=1576","title":{"rendered":"Mancation 7 – 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can it be seven years? \u00a0Mancation is showing it’s age and the effects of pestilence and injury. \u00a0Last year I didn’t make it – some horrid bug laid me low. \u00a0I heard after the fact that Scott came, then laid around on the couch, ill.<\/p>\n

This year the our numbers were further decimated. \u00a0Wes was suffering from his 8th or 9th concussion and a broken collarbone. \u00a0Jeremy had a shoulder and ankle injury, combined with sleep deprivation from working 70 hours a week. \u00a0Scott also bowed out.<\/p>\n

So it was down to Mike, Doug, Guy, and Tim. \u00a0I think that Mike and Doug are the only ones who have never missed a year. \u00a0Guy is a close second, having missed only one year, maybe?<\/p>\n

No one planned a damn thing this year, we were so up in the air, so at the last minute we decided to eschew a cabin and just camp. Hartman Creek fit the bill: \u00a0close at a mere 100 miles, with biking and boating nearby. \u00a0I hauled my camper up to stand in for a cabin.<\/p>\n

And it worked to great effect. \u00a0The weather came and went. \u00a0It was cool and it rained at night. Despite the late date, the skeeters were out in force, so for three nights in a row we partied it up in the camper. \u00a0Ranger Betty came around one night and had her pistol half out of the holster before we turned it down, just in time. (Later she told me she actually didn’t hear the music at all, \u00a0just Doug – all the way back at the Ranger shack.)<\/p>\n

Final tally: lots of mountain biking. \u00a0Hartman has enough of it to make it worth going that way. \u00a0One lake float, two river floats: the Little Wolf (aka River of Crashing and Bashing), and the Mecan (River of No Worries.) \u00a0Lots of music and good food. \u00a0One swollen lip, one cracked boat. \u00a0And the distinction of “lowest cost trip ever”.<\/p>\n

Here’s the pics, in one big chronological schmear.<\/p>\n

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Can it be seven years? \u00a0Mancation is showing it’s age and the effects of pestilence and injury. \u00a0Last year I didn’t make it – some horrid bug laid me low. \u00a0I heard after the fact that Scott came, then laid around on the couch, ill. This year the our numbers were further decimated. \u00a0Wes was … Continue reading “Mancation 7 – 2014”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camping","category-photo","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}