Man, as usual the Landry/Sokoloff camping trip was a crazy one. My friends, Josh and Jake, and I have a semi-sometimes-multi-annual camping trip to some lakes near Bishop, Ca. These trips always tend to be an unregulated beer, fishing and bar-hopping Hendrix experience. This year was no different.
The Boys, New Years 2005- Jake and Josh are in stripes
Jake and I met Josh up at the campsite on Friday afternoon. Josh and I started cracking beers and then we all went out in a boat on Lake Sabrina. The funny thing is we are about seven hundred pounds of people in a little 10′ foot fishing boat driven by a 30 lb electric motor. Hahaha. Jake and I were rowing just so that we could actually get where we were going in a somewhat timely fashion. The motor helped to even us out though, Jake is a machine and he was rowing with both hands, while I was one-handing the oar and drinking a beer with the other. This whole time passerbys were cracking up ’cause we’re just sitting talking sh*t to one other (hey we’ve been friends a long time, that’s what we do).
We got bored with the lake and evening was coming on, so we made our way back to camp for dinner. Eating on these trips generally consists of meat, meat, more meat, chips, and potatoes in the morning sometimes. We got back to camp had some steaks and then got ready to go down into town. This is were my Friday gets crazy. We get to the bars and have a great time. To make a long story a little shorter, after dancing for a long time this girl and I leave. Now if this happens on one of these trip, we (Josh, Jake, and I) know that we’ll just get a hold of one another in the morning. We’re big boys we don’t need to spend the night waiting for eachother. Anyway, as it turns out I don’t have a place to stay, because she is in town visting family, it was really kind of awkward, and it was info that I could have had before we walked all of town and rolled around on various lawns. So I leave and wander around town looking for a ride to the campground, yeah right, its three am, nobody’s gonna give me a ride. So I wind up getting a hotel at four. Man, if only I had done that before losing the girl. Oh well.
I didn’t have my cell phone the next morning because it was in my jacket in Jake’s car back at camp. Damn. Oh well again. If I can’t find a ride up there, the sheriffs will take me up there. Got through town and almost to the police station, which is on the road up to the campground, and still no rides. I got to the police station and they were closed. WTF? I continue cruising in the direction of the camp and stop into gas stations to inquire about buying rides from folks. Nope. I found out later that I actually missed Jake and Josh in one of the gas stations by about ten minutes.
Finally I decided that I would just buy some water and start my 14 mile treck to the camp and hope that someone would pick me up or I would run into the J’s before I had to walk that far. Eight miles and 30 or so cars passing me by later, two rock climber guys from New York picked me up and took me the rest of the way. That was nice. Didn’t waste much of the day though because it only took me about two hours to cover that ground, and I missed the hardest part thankfully. Bishop is at 4,000 feet and in eight miles I’d made it almost to 6′000 feet, but I got driven up the steep part that takes us to almost 8,000 where the camp is at.
Once I was back at camp, I ate some chicken and chips and downed about 60 oz of water and took a nice refreshing dip in the 40 degree creek. Took a little nap, Josh and Jake showed back up and we went swimming down in the Owens River. There was a sweet rope swing there and suprisingly plenty of eye candy. Too bad Josh lost my sunglasses. Jack a$$.
Later on we went back out to the bars had great times, I got to go make use of a hot tub- take that as you want- and then we all manage to make back up to the camp by 3:30. Good times. Sunday we drove to our respective homes.
All in all I estimate a total beer consumption of 200 between us, 4 lbs of steak, two bags of chips and a piece of corn each. Josh and I also had eggs and potatoes sunday morning. Oh yeah, I walked that entire eight miles on an empty stomach. Total I lost ten pounds of glycogen, water and a little fat. As of today I’ve added 7 back. Thats why my workout was not what it could have been yesterday. Everything felt light, but I ran out of gas in sets about 2 to 4 reps sooner than I expected and well, what ever, it is what it is and today is a back day. I had a great time last weekend and thats what it is all about anyway.
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