And Rondo, just so's you know,,, I'm right with ya on that sled! 

If the weather cooperates, I expect the less adventurous folks at the rondy, will soon be takin' pitchers of 2 old men slidein' down the hill on a sled.

I'll steer,.... you hold the bottle!   

        

Uncle Russ...

Quote from: Ohio Joe on June 20, 2018, 05:26:51 PM

I'll just add a note to Rondo's post above;

They do put out direction "arrow" markers pointing to the Rendezvous site which is (what would you say Rondo - 7 / 8 miles or so off the highway? (you'd think we'd know this after all these years....  )

Yeah,.... it's probably at least that far once you turn off the highway and onto the dirt road. 

I sure hope it snows at this year's rondy,.... I'd love to ride down that hill, and into camp, on a sled. 

   Trust me Rondo, even if it only rains, you gotta a shot it! 

I think it was back in '94 or '95 (It was a Friday night candle shoot - and I had to work Saturday morning) so Cindy said she'd drop me off and go back into Chadron and visit some friends and she'd come back out around midnight to pick me up... So,,, it started raining midway through that candle shoot and we had to call it off... I thought to myself that I better just get up to the road so Cindy wouldn't have to try and drive that Van we had back then down into the parking area on top (you know where I'm talking),,, so I started climbing that hill they call a road - and I damn neared got to the top and I slipped! I rode that slope all the way back down to the bottom on my butt - muddy as all get out! (I felt so damn stupid hoping no one had seen me sliding down that damn hill. 

Anyway,,, I finally made it out of there / forged the creek at the next hill (as you know going down - but I didn't slip, that didn't happen again until I started up the hill on the other side of the creek - then back down I went!    Somehow by the grace of the ol' Mighty, I got back up to the main road, soaking wet and muddy,,, and no Cindy, so I started walking towards town figuring she'd be along...

She finally did come along (slow of course as the main road was muddy also) and like a dummy I stood out in the middle of the road with these headlights slowly baring down on me and me waving her down with my rifle up in the air above my head,,, well she must of taken pitty on me 'cause she stopped (and I was just caked in mud,,, thank god she stopped  ) and if I remember right, the first thing she said was, "You're all muddy!" Naturally I knew that. 

Anyway, I made it home that night and to work the next day, and I do have first hand knowledge that you can in fact, "slide" down that hill without snow,,, rain works just fine!   

I'll just add a note to Rondo's post above;

They do put out direction "arrow" markers pointing to the Rendezvous site which is (what would you say Rondo - 7 / 8 miles or so off the highway? (you'd think we'd know this after all these years....  )

SUPER!!!!   

-Kees-