{"id":414,"date":"2010-10-12T02:20:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T02:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernloon.net\/wordpress30\/?p=414"},"modified":"2025-04-21T17:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:41:54","slug":"mancation-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Mancation 3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

More Mancation madness.\u00a0 Attendees:\u00a0 Mike, Guy, Doug, Wes, Tim, and newbie Scott, replacing Derek (poor guy).<\/p>\n

This affair has settled into a comfortable rut.\u00a0 It goes like this: We book a cabin on a scenic lake up north.\u00a0 We dial up, and we get, fabulous weather.\u00a0 We bike cool routes through the woods, we run rivers.\u00a0 We party-float out on our lake late at night, thoroughly shattering the peace and quiet that other denizens of our lake thought they had a lock on when they bought in. We stay up even later and throw our lit up frisbee in a black hole of darkness until most of us are injured.<\/p>\n

This year did not see even a slight deviation from this template.\u00a0 The temps were in the mid 70’s in the day, cool at night.\u00a0 Leaves were turning nicely.\u00a0 Not a drop of rain. The script was followed to the “T”.<\/p>\n

One of these years we’re going to go up there and it’s going to be sleeting the entire weekend.<\/p>\n

Great food was had each night.\u00a0 Mike ran lead with a Mexican motif on Friday, employing some of Tim’s Famous Green Verde.\u00a0 Tim did clean up in an attempt to avoid being Totally Lame after Mike’s tour de’ force. Guy took breakfast lead on Saturday morning.\u00a0 Eggs, bacon, potatoes.\u00a0 He knows what we like.<\/p>\n

Wes was Iron Chef, Italian Division,\u00a0 on Saturday night. Scott dished up some homegrown greens that of themselves provided most of us with the majority of vitamins we’ll ingest for all of 2010. \u00a0Doug was the man on Sunday morning, with Breakfast Burritos, a big hit.\u00a0 Tim again cleaned this up.\u00a0 Thanks for opening 3 cans of beans, Doug.<\/p>\n

Our cabin was on Lake John, near Lakewood, WI.\u00a0 Here’s some scenes of the cabin and the lake itself, taken over the weekend.<\/p>\n

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We(*) rode the Nicholet Roche Mountain Bike Trail on Friday, before checking into the cabin. It was reputed to be a tough ride.\u00a0 Ask Scott more about that.<\/p>\n

The trees were ablaze in this part of the woods.<\/p>\n

(*) That would be everybody but Tim, who managed to drop his disassembled seat post clamp from the back of the car on the way up. It’s not a good idea to ride your mountain bike without a saddle.<\/p>\n

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Saturday was\u00a0 reserved for a sleepy 8 mile run on the Wolf.\u00a0 Did I mention that weather was perfect?\u00a0 The Wolf is very, very scenic.<\/p>\n

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We headed home on Sunday and stopped at Standing Rocks Mt. Bike trails near Stevens Point for our final event.\u00a0 This was good stuff.\u00a0 Almost no one crashed, except Tim (what a jerk), who was riding a borrowed Klein with citrus juicer seat attachment.<\/p>\n

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Personal Damages report:<\/p>\n

Bug bites !: at least 15 good ones.\u00a0 Had to be flies. There were no skeeters.<\/p>\n

Injury report: left hip on BC#1. Both shins, both arms, and a bloody thumb on over-the-front BC#2.\u00a0 Crushed fingers on account of a few guys who throw the Frisbee way, way too hard. Broken glass in finger from picking up broken beer bottle.<\/p>\n

Equipment failures: one seat post, one bike light in the drink, one Pyrex dish. (quote of the day, right before “the shattering”:\u00a0 “Oh, those Pyrex dishes can take jut about anything!”)<\/p>\n

Hangovers: yes.<\/p>\n

Miscellaneous injury of note:\u00a0 One fat lip for Mr. Wilson.\u00a0 It happened in the dark . . in his room . . . late at night.\u00a0 The one he shared with Mike.\u00a0 Don’t ask . . . don’t tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More Mancation madness.\u00a0 Attendees:\u00a0 Mike, Guy, Doug, Wes, Tim, and newbie Scott, replacing Derek (poor guy). This affair has settled into a comfortable rut.\u00a0 It goes like this: We book a cabin on a scenic lake up north.\u00a0 We dial up, and we get, fabulous weather.\u00a0 We bike cool routes through the woods, we run … Continue reading “Mancation 3.0”<\/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-414","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\/414","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=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}