View Full Version : Trashgiving '09 - Date and location if at all?
Title says it all.
Will there be a Trashgiving this year?
Glencliff, Hikers Welcome as usual, Dec 11-13... they chose facebook posting instead of the peanut gallery here.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=201839152532&ref=nf
Glencliff, Hikers Welcome as usual, Dec 11-13... they chose facebook posting instead of the peanut gallery here.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=201839152532&ref=nf
Thank you very much.:)
Crud! I just checked with my wife and I have a wedding to go to in New York that weekend! (well, Saturday anyhow - maybe I can stop by Sat. Night. Hmmmmmm).
mweinstone
12-04-2009, 13:12
when you get to trashgiveing,swim in the indoor pool first. then go in the steam room. then eat . its important.
max patch
12-04-2009, 16:19
Everybody comes back.
Jester2000
12-04-2009, 16:25
Crud! I just checked with my wife and I have a wedding to go to in New York that weekend! (well, Saturday anyhow - maybe I can stop by Sat. Night. Hmmmmmm).
Unless it's your wedding, that's no excuse.
mweinstone
12-07-2009, 08:26
ask your doctor about the purple trashbag. hiker trash may not be preventable but their is hope.
Chaco Taco
12-07-2009, 11:17
You're back! :eek: :D
He never left:D
He said he was. Thread disappeared to where ever threads go at the whim of 'someone'.
Glencliff, Hikers Welcome as usual, Dec 11-13... they chose facebook posting instead of the peanut gallery here.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=201839152532&ref=nf
I don't have facebook can some one explain what this is?
Jack Tarlin
12-07-2009, 15:20
Trashgiving is a post-Thanksgiving holiday that a bunch of us (nearly all former thru-hikers) started around seven years ago when we realized that Thanksgiving was a great holiday, but with two problems: Some of us lived too far from home, couldn't get back, or worse, were perhaps estranged from their families for one reason or another. Consequently these folks always had a lousy Thanksgiving. The other group of folks DID go home for the holiday and had to spend three days dealing with Aunt Enid and Uncle Shmendrick and the 400 people you don't really wanna see who are always asking you when you're going to do something with your life and justify your parents' expenditure on your education, blah, blah. We realized that these people also had a lousy Thanksgiving.
So ultimately we decided that we'd rather get together with friends, and not just families. Usually, this takes place the weekend after Thanksgiving; this year it's one week later, i.e. 11-13 December. Our friends that run the hiker hostel in Glencliff NH have once again very graciously given us the run of the place all weekend and we expect all sorts of folks starting anytime after Friday afternoon.
It's a simple weekend: People that want to hike can do that, as the hostel is just off the A.T. and right at the foot of Mt. Moosilauke. Some years we do some Trail maintenance tho there may be too much snow on the ground this year to get much done. People that wanna cook do that. People that wanna
hang out in the kitchen do that. People that wanna hang out in the living room and play guitar or watch slide shows or whatever do that. We never know who's gonna show up or how many people will be there, as hikers are notorious about not RSVPing , ever.
Anyway, that's Trashgiving, and pretty much anyone who wants to is welcome. This year, instead of 2 or 3 people fronting the whole event (which gets expensive), instead, we're downscaling a bit, and encouragiung folks to bring something along to eat and share, tho there will be plenty of other stuff available all weekend.
Anyway, Slugger, hope this answers your question, and maybe we'll see you there.
Anyone with any questions or is wondering what to bring can get in touch with me or bfitz (The Dude) who is pretty much in charge of things this year.
Hope to see some of you in Glencliff!!
Okay, now that the cat's out of the bag, and that I've realized some folks still remain free of facebook (like the savages in Brave New World), here's a reasonable facsimile of the facebook invite...
Attention, Comrades!
Okay, so in the spirit of Trashgiving, we have obtained permission to host a get together again this year at the hiker's Welcome hostel in Glencliff, NH. If you are reading this, then you are invited. Also, although we're doing it Facebook invitation style rather than open announcement on whiteblaze this year that doesn't mean you shouldn't invite/bring/notify anyone you think should come, just trying to avoid such things as unaccompanied 15 year olds or, [folks who wander in not knowing what to expect and aren't into it...]. There will be swearing and the occassional adult beverage. And perhaps floor show.
The dates are: Dec. 11th - 13th 2009 (we figured push it back so folks could plan....and of course jester's mom needs time to bake...hopefully that was good idea...we'll find out!) At Hiker's Welcome Hostel Glencliff, NH....
Anyhow the general concept will be a bit different this year too. No extravagant feast will be prepared in advance...this is to be a recession-style BYOnecessities/favorite dishes/ingredients(kitchen on hand)/pot luck affair. The company of friends is the main concern so the tradition must not end and if we end up with 16 casseroles and 12 pumpkin pies and everyone comes I'll buy a bucket of whipped cream and we'll be fantastic. I also thought about doing a hiker feast out of all the leftover stuff in the hostel hiker box...it's a sin to waste it, and you know jack can do something with it...but aaaaanyway once we're all together whatever gaps in the menu exist can be fixed along with chipping in for the beer runs Friday and Saturday afternoons or some such thing. This will also avoid Lone Wolf being snippy on the Trashgiving whiteblaze thread about the money thing while folks try to organize the party in advance. Also, BooBoo will be hogtied, probably tranquilized, and put to bed at 7 pm. Shut up BooBoo that's generous and you know it.
So to sum up, you should come and bring your musical instrument and some pie or something. It'll be awesome. White russians daily at five. And generally. Your presence is mandatory. And don't forget to use the invite people tab on the top right panel of this page to invite folks from your friends list!
YIB,
-d
I guess I could have deleted the bit about not announcing it on whiteblaze....
Jack Tarlin
12-07-2009, 15:47
Nicely done, Dude.
Especially the bit about the pie.
mweinstone
12-07-2009, 16:11
move over my friends.
heres the truth about what goes on.
running
jumping
joy
yelling
singing
cooking
eating
sleeping
sex
rock and roll
tarlin toss
dude and tank arguing big bang thery
matthewski eating stuffing and passing out from it
the chick whith the hudge tops who comes and projectile vomits
the couple who comes and steals food
packrats walkthru
panzers spectical of his electricly heated tent
goats electric toothbrush
and other manners of rumpuss
mweinstone
12-07-2009, 16:15
their have been discussions about the low temp reached at different trashgiveings. i believe it was once 5 below. but the thermometer is very very old. can someone bring like a million dollar digital outside thermometer so i can end this . i broke my outside sleeping low temp at glenncliff. in the hostel!
Speaking of, I left a nice propane heater at the hostel which Im 99.9999....% sure is still there, so if anyone brings their partially filled propane tank from their barbecue grill or what-not that extra fuel and tank might come in handy!
mweinstone
12-07-2009, 16:26
dude is the turkey fryer and pot their? how bout the popcorn machine and the sterno stove. knowing the fate of these would help me be a more annoying over poper of corn and a better butter melter and turkey fryer assistant to stonewall at 5 below if we had oil and turkeys.get it? find out?
mweinstone
12-07-2009, 16:32
might start bad hiker poetry notrth contest with mayor jesters permish
heres somethin im still tweekin
their once lived a boy named young baltimore jack tarlin.
who did too much fartin
so was sent to the woods to live
so sad was his partin
then along came the dude
together, they rude!
and apart gave jack time to fart
dude got lonely
dude is the turkey fryer and pot their? how bout the popcorn machine and the sterno stove. knowing the fate of these would help me be a more annoying over poper of corn and a better butter melter and turkey fryer assistant to stonewall at 5 below if we had oil and turkeys.get it? find out?I'm not sure how the fryer came to be there in the first place but unless it's bringer or someone else took it away with them there's a high probability it's still there...
mweinstone
12-07-2009, 16:36
matthewskis before trashgivin to do list
ramp up
pump
chill
groove
find work,girlfriend,god and floss.
I have partial pieces of the fryer, I think, still in storage. The rest can be found someplace up in the hostel. Sorry I will not be able to marry the pieces together since my presence will be void due to employment and house sitting services.
For all those Billvillians out there, I am deeply missing the opportunity to cook for and satisfy your appetites this year. Unfortunately the event I was planning for Trashgiving this year was trumped by a surprising hand. I am sure all attending will have a great time and my thoughts are with ya'll. My heart is certainly empty.
Imagining 20 of you sharing a big tub of whipped cream, I hope the shower is working :jump
To those attending and those not - Have a safe and happy holiday season.
:dance:dance:dance:dance
Title says it all.
Will there be a Trashgiving this year?
So I, the original poster, will not be able to attend! :( A wedding in NY on Sat. afternoon and a mandate to show up on stage at church on Sunday morning ........................
I hope that bringing attention to the event benefits someone!
See you next event (hopefully!).:rolleyes:
Happy holidays, all!
I have partial pieces of the fryer, I think, still in storage. The rest can be found someplace up in the hostel. Sorry I will not be able to marry the pieces together since my presence will be void due to employment and house sitting services.
For all those Billvillians out there, I am deeply missing the opportunity to cook for and satisfy your appetites this year. Unfortunately the event I was planning for Trashgiving this year was trumped by a surprising hand. I am sure all attending will have a great time and my thoughts are with ya'll. My heart is certainly empty.
Imagining 20 of you sharing a big tub of whipped cream, I hope the shower is working :jump
To those attending and those not - Have a safe and happy holiday season.
:dance:dance:dance:danceWow talk of blister satisfying appetites and marrying pieces together and a whipped cream party and invisible hands in the shower (that line was golden) .... I feel like I just listened to a dirty song by the mentors or like I just read a 19th century paper on economics ....considering its billville we're talking about I'm gonna go with dirty. While lack of communication might have cost us a few attendees (Hey, it's billville, we all make a little "booboo" every now and then:banana...well most of us... that's why we're so forgiving...:p) we're definitely tryin to get the word out now!!....So to all who still did not know.. Just two more days....I know with the short notice and the weather and recession and depression it's hard to find a way to make it, but I still know that a few will heed the call this year, we lucky few, we band of others from our mothers planet smothered in whipped cream.....approximately 20 of us, in the shower.... how do you humans say it at your "huddle house"...covered and.....chunked...? :welcome
:dance:dance I like how it's Orco from He-man and the masters of the universe.
yo mattski my phones out...but still gets incoming calls so call me ASAP!!!!
Or anyone who feels like it and has his # give him a call and tell him to call me....dont worry about it being late, blame me!
camojack
12-11-2009, 04:16
There's a possibility that I'll be there, weather permitting. The "Camobile" is in the shop, (no!) thanks to some nitwit making a U-turn right in front of it, but that idiot's insurance company is paying $4,000 to fix it. Anyway, I know I won't be riding the Harley in case of snow, (etc.) and the little rental car might not be up to that either.
What should I bring though, if I can make it?
warraghiyagey
12-11-2009, 08:45
What should I bring though, if I can make it?
Just your dazzling smile. . . :sun
mweinstone
12-11-2009, 14:49
jester and me are leaveing soon. cammo just left. got pinnapples. 6 of those puppys. im feelin roast with marshmallo and chocolate? any questions? you sir in the bannana suit,....what? gross? okay well let jack figure it out. maby bourbonpinnaples in a basket fryed with sour cream? okay, maby the dude can cook....no. how bout i peel them and cut them and eat them. yes. i have blueberry pancakes and you dont. my food bag contains some of the most gifted chocolates in this or any other world of chocolate. as a factor of mat. yup. matterafact. also nessled within the protected borders of the m f b 9000,(matfoodbag9000) are the legendary duo of , yes, none other than biscuts and gravy! lets all give a warm welcome to mr peanut butter and mrs jelly! yeah!
no soup for you!
mweinstone
12-11-2009, 14:50
only you can prevent hiker boxes.
jester and me are leaveing soon. cammo just left. got pinnapples. 6 of those puppys. im feelin roast with marshmallo and chocolate? any questions? you sir in the bannana suit,....what? gross? okay well let jack figure it out. maby bourbonpinnaples in a basket fryed with sour cream? okay, maby the dude can cook....no. how bout i peel them and cut them and eat them. yes. i have blueberry pancakes and you dont. my food bag contains some of the most gifted chocolates in this or any other world of chocolate. as a factor of mat. yup. matterafact. also nessled within the protected borders of the m f b 9000,(matfoodbag9000) are the legendary duo of , yes, none other than biscuts and gravy! lets all give a warm welcome to mr peanut butter and mrs jelly! yeah!
no soup for you!
ah ya little hikahs wit ya little food rambles.....:p
mweinstone
12-11-2009, 15:06
their once hiked a girl named wakapac
whos pack stunk like a funk attack
she stoped and she washed it with sudsy nontoxics
and then put it back on her back
she shacked up with a hika name chaco
something to do with a taco
they hung their boots in ashville
only for a short while you see
for town life made them ill
time to hike with matthewski
their once hiked a girl named wakapac
whos pack stunk like a funk attack
she stoped and she washed it with sudsy nontoxics
and then put it back on her back
she shacked up with a hika name chaco
something to do with a taco
they hung their boots in ashville
only for a short while you see
for town life made them ill
time to hike with matthewski
Awwww Mattie!!
Wish we could go hiking with you!
we can definitely hunt you down while you're in this area though and kidnap you and bring you back to asheville for a bit....
have fun at trashgiving!
oh, hey, as far as I know, my old stinky pack may still be at the Hiker's Welcome Hostel there too. it's the last place I left it.....
so if there's a funk at the hostel...it's not my pack! :o :p
I don't think it was the coldest trashgiving ever but it was close....fortunately the food was hot and the butane heater didn't give us CO2 poisoning...