Acadia details

The Blackwoods Campground has been recommended to us, and I have picked out a pair of sites tucked in back that I will attempt to reserve with appropriate interest. We are allowed 6 people on each site, 2 tents, but only 1 car. I am assuming that we will be able to park extra cars at the registration building, but carpooling sounds like a dandy idea too.

I believe the sites are $20 per night, so this trip may be a bit more expensive, with taxes and crap figure $30 per night, 4 nights, 2 sites, divided by the number of participants on a given day. Perhaps we will do 1 site for the first 2 nights and 2 sites for the second 2 nights?

Be forewarned that the "No Accelerants" rule has been self-imposed, so there will likely be a great deal of swearing before we achieve fire. If you've ever wondered how people make fire without matches or lighters, this will be your opportunity to point and laugh as a group of grown men fritter about on their hands and knees until things go from smoulder to burn, like my love for you.

Additionally, be aware that transporting wood from Massachusetts can be potentially disasterous on account of the Asian Longhorned Beetle. All wood should be preburned, soaked in caustic chemicals, taken from unwanted furniture, or procured up north.

2009 Camping Season

BEHOLD! The power of organization. This year we're going to try something a little different to get our camping trips up and running. The mass e-mail threads must get really annoying for people who aren't participating, and the thread tool on E-vite worked very well last year for getting people together, so I thought we'd try a centralized location for the whole season, found here at the Team Extra Gold Camp Adventures blog. As camping trips come up, I will post details here, we can all RSVP and converse in the discussion threads, and finalized details will go up in new posts as they become solidified.

Thusfar, there are two camping trips tentatively on the docket.

One trip in May, an overnight hike out and back along the MidState trail. We'll lock this one down a bit more an post on it later.

The most relevant trip right now is planned for Wednesday, June 10 through Sunday, June 14 at Acadia National Park in ME. It's about 6 hours north of Boston and is one of the shining beacons of parkdom in New England. The hiking is legendary, the scenery is gorgeous, the drive is tenuously amusing, and the company is what you keep.

I need to make reservations for this trip this month, and even then it might already be fully booked. Please let us know via the Comments section if you are down for one or both of these trips so the planning can go beyond dates.

Also please let us know if there are any places you would like to see a trip organized for or particularly good times later in the summer for you to go outside.