VIDEO: Shug & Hickery's PART 3 )))) 8 Night Linville Gorge Wilderness Adventures

**Shug** · 05-24-2010, 22:56

PART 3 ........Friday Night STORM ON ROCK JOCK AT BEAN CAMP!!!!!
Days 4 and 5.
Turk heads home and Hickery and I go on ........and on.
We meet up with HammockForum.net members getting ready to do their Linville Loop as we finish ....
Hickery and I have a terrific storm night on rock Jock trail.... we warned 'em!!!! They experienced the same storm!!!!!!
Hickery and I go back down Conely Cove trail and meet Stormcrow, EagleJ and Cooldays for a night and burn some stoves.
EagleJ made me a sweet woodstove .... Thankee fine Sir!

A bit of the Bill Monroe composition "Jerusalem Ridge" played by me and my friends............

Thankee for comin' along!
All secure in sector seven.........
Shug

Linville Gorge PART 3)))) 8 Day Trip with Shug & Hickery

Some of Hickery's Pictures!!!!!
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Shug's corpse-like foot ... ohhhhh
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Hickery hanging over Hacker
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**JayS** · 05-24-2010, 23:01

Haven't watched it yet but know it's gonna be as good as the first two episodes! Here I go!!!!

(Ten minutes later) Yep... it was great! Gotta get to the Gorge someday. Looks like a great place to grow up.

**Just Jeff** · 05-24-2010, 23:22

Another great video, Shug. I bet you drove your mother crazy as a kid!

Btw...the beginning says Part 2 instead of Part 3.

**Shug** · 05-24-2010, 23:31

Originally Posted by JayS

Haven't watched it yet but know it's gonna be as good as the first two episodes! Here I go!!!!

(Ten minutes later) Yep... it was great! Gotta get to the Gorge someday. Looks like a great place to grow up.

Ahhhh. I loved that storm and was so glad to have captured it!

Originally Posted by Just Jeff

Another great video, Shug. I bet you drove your mother crazy as a kid!

Btw...the beginning says Part 2 instead of Part 3.

Not as crazy as she drove me!!!!!
Thanks on the Part 2 or 3 ..... me so tired.
I fixed it on YT.

**trouthunter** · 05-24-2010, 23:58

Thanks for more great video! And thanks to Hickory for the photos! I really wish I was there after watching all the mayhem.

As posted on YouTube:
The gun doesn't bother me at all, proper handling and some common sense is all that's needed to stay safe. In fact I have found them to be multi purpose on my trips. To save weight I cut most of the handle off my toothbrush, now, I can stick the toothbrush into the barrel of my gun and brush away with a custom grip.
That's thinkin' there!

How cold was the water?
Was the catfish caught in the Linville River?
What became of the tent?

Again, Thanks for sharing!

**Shug** · 05-25-2010, 00:02

Originally Posted by trouthunter

Thanks for more great video! And thanks to Ken for the photos! I really wish I was there after watching all the mayhem.

As posted on YouTube:
The gun doesn't bother me at all, proper handling and some common sense is all that's needed to stay safe. In fact I have found them to be multi purpose on my trips. To save weight I cut most of the handle off my toothbrush, now, I can stick the toothbrush into the barrel of my gun and brush away with a custom grip.
That's thinkin' there!

How cold was the water?
Was the catfish caught in the Linville River?
What became of the tent?

Again, Thanks for sharing!

I know .... Hickery is a partially grown man so I am fine if he totes it!
*Water is cold but exhilarating....
*No ... Food Lion for the catfish ... those scenes are from our first night behind the trailhead....
*We hid it really good.....

**Redwood Guy** · 05-25-2010, 00:29

ah that rain is pretty much a daily occurance here in the Redwood forest!!

Hey shug, what did the two of you use for water filration on that long of a trip? Did you guys just collect and boil or did you chemical filter or use an AquaSimple or some such?

**trouthunter** · 05-25-2010, 00:39

I forgot to add...it looked like hickory was wearing Asolo Fugitives in the photo with his feet on the edge.

**Knotty** · 05-25-2010, 01:04

The lightning and thunder weren't scary but "Shug's corpse-like foot", now that's a horror show!

**Running Feather** · 05-25-2010, 02:26

Thanks for yet another great video Shug. A slice of life in the Gorge is like a whole pie anywhere else.

It's a shame you can't put it all up on YT. Perhaps a vid from the cutting room floor for a finale?