Ape Cave Trip -- August 25, 2007

Today we took off on another wild expedition seeking to put the Ad in Venturing. The Odyssey served the six of us well and helped us rock out to lots of Weird Al and enjoy fine quality entertainment such as "Nacho Libre". My wife will be pleased that we did not get it all muddy. We met at 7 AM and were back in Astoria by a little after 4 PM. Linner was at Burgerville in Woodland, and I learned that Steven and Sean have no trouble putting away Ultimate 1/2 pound cheeseburgers, Dean is very very into blackberries (having them in both forms: shake AND lemonade), Burgerville serves the largest onion rings known to man, and if they drop a few of the fries from your basket they'll bring you a whole 'nuther basket more (which the Bishop and Dean will help you with). I love saying "a whole 'nuther", by the way. In any case, we all had lots of fun and nobody got broken.


Um, yeah. We picked up J.J. from the Cougar Recreation Area Campground on our way up to the cave. Evidently they must have trouble with people recreating in the campsites, when clearly that must be done in the area exclusively set aside for recreating. Dang it, if I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times: these campsites are for CAMPING!! :-) We also felt very thoroughly warned about the Slow Children, which actually appeared to be pretty fast. Lastly, it would seem to me that a recreation area for cougars and slow children would be a bad combination.


Steven, Sean, J.J., Bishop H, Dean, and I (taking the photo) arrived and quickly established our headquarters. We arrived at the cave entrance by 9:45 AM, and this was great because the crowds hadn't shown up yet. So, if you're heading up there, go early! People were waiting for our parking spot by the time we left, and there were tons of cars lining the road on the way out.