Thread: Nelson member camping get together?

Originally Posted by lumberjack

Story time


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Wast us.... I arrived Thurs night at the hut to two interesting characters, slept in the tent. One of them had decided to "fill in blank" and ended up over the bank.

Friday a few forum members rocked on up, set up a safe place to 'sight rifles' and chew the fat. Great meal that evening put on by one of the residents (a stuff up on their numbers and food saw a great meal)
Entertaining? (sure @Pengy @ROKTOY might say otherwise) Night in the hut, glad I was in the tent.
Saturdays mission waste recover the vehicle if we could, all went well and winching couldn't have gone easier with a few other truck showing up at he right time to lend a hand. Saturday night the two residents moved out.... Very enjoyable evening Saturday with a few tales, great beers (who shows up with peanuts in their beer and beer in your bread! and great food. No excuse to go hungry on this trip

Sunday morning @Shearer went for a walk with a rifle and the rest of us packed up and went for a wee explore in the trucks.

When are we doing it next!

It was not one of our`s fortunately.
Couple of guys already at Caves hut had managed to go off the side when " I swerved to miss a deer".
Neither were hurt, but given the amount of booze they were chucking down, my guess is that the deer was a figment of the driver`s imagination. No skid marks or evidence of a sudden swerve either.
Our own Roktoy and 223nut carried out a very efficient recovery.

Originally Posted by Pengy

It was not one of our`s fortunately.
Couple of guys already at Caves hut had managed to go off the side when " I swerved to miss a deer".
Neither were hurt, but given the amount of booze they were chucking down, my guess is that the deer was a figment of the driver`s imagination. No skid marks or evidence of a sudden swerve either.
Our own Roktoy and 223nut carried out a very efficient recovery.

Damn slow typing
There could have been a deer..... But... Some animal sign, next time I'm only bringing one rifle and doing some exercise

Picture may be misleading but fucked if I would be standing there

Originally Posted by Gibo

Picture may be misleading but fucked if I would be standing there

Believe me Gibo, that car was going no where with the way Roktoy had it held in place.

Originally Posted by Gibo

Picture may be misleading but fucked if I would be standing there

Not misleading Gibo, it was pretty damned steep. The vehicle was secured from above by a winch and two straps before anyone worked directly below the car. about an hour or maybe more was spent rigging winch ropes and straps before the recovery was started. Once underway it took 15-20 minutes to winch the rear of the vehicle back up the hill to get it vertical and it was then lowered slowly down on its wheels to the riverbed

Sounds like a bloody good trip. Hopefully able to make the next one. Good stuff on helping out the other fullas to. Looked like a bit of a mish


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Originally Posted by lumberjack

Sounds like a bloody good trip. Hopefully able to make the next one. Good stuff on helping out the other fullas to. Looked like a bit of a mish


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There is more to follow on this story, some of which is a lesson learned for those involved. Watch this space

Oooohhhh, intrigue!

I'm really annoyed that I couldn't make it.

Originally Posted by gadgetman

Oooohhhh, intrigue!

I'm really annoyed that I couldn't make it.

Roktoy or Pengy should tell the story, it involves alcohol, sleep, night mares and fighting...

Originally Posted by 223nut

Roktoy or Pengy should tell the story, it involves alcohol, sleep, night mares and fighting...

I cant wait to hear this one!

Originally Posted by 223nut

Roktoy or Pengy should tell the story, it involves alcohol, sleep, night mares and fighting...

Sounds like a good old fashioned western movie.

Originally Posted by gadgetman

Sounds like a good old fashioned western movie.

It was GM, with a cast of one..
One of the original hut mates that were responsible for the precarious parking of the Mistral, on the first evening of Pengy and myselfs induction into the hut henceforth imbibed reasonably copious quantities of a brown beverage, followed by a volume of a clear sometimes potato based beverage again followed by a quantity of a grain based beverage. Which therefore entailed a night of little sleep for Pengy and myself as the aforementioned individual entered into virtual fights and loud arguments with other individuals in his head on a regular basis for several hours during the night. We are unsure who won, but we lost unfortunately.

Originally Posted by ROKTOY

reasonably copious quantities of a brown beverage, followed by a volume of a clear sometimes potato based beverage again followed by a quantity of a grain based beverage.

Some of which wasn't his and whilst I brought a bottle of grain based beverage to share, having 1/3 bottle evaporate whilst recovering his mates vehicle....

Originally Posted by gadgetman

Oooohhhh, intrigue!

I'm really annoyed that I couldn't make it.

Me too gutted I couldn't make it,got back from fishing to babysitting duty's that were not good and couldn't really leave.