The Date is Set for Moyes v. Wild I

All those with working knees mark your calendars for June 12-14. On that weekend the Moyes men, and the junior Moyes men (Steve, Rob, Ryan) will venture into the Eagle Cap Wildnerness in Northeast Oregon to prove our mettle!!!

Moyes vs. Wild - Sleeping Arrangements

I agree with Dustin, I think I will bring my backpacking tent, but first option of shelter is to make your own. I think I will bring my sleeping bag and pad though because its all fun and games until you don't get any sleep for a night or two.

As for woodland fare, YouTube has some good videos on setting snares. I've created and set snares, but I honestly don't remember if we caught anything or not. My main worry is that I don't really know how to skin any creature that may be dumb enough to get snared by me.

By the way, I call no cannibalism...

Moyes vs. Wild - rules

Talking with Gary last night, I think we need to laydown a few ground rules. I just don't know what they are.

One rule I think should be put into place is all fire needs to be made with either:
a.) One of the many friction methods
b.) Pop can and sun
c.) Ice

Here are some other items up for discussion:
To tent or not to tent?
Eating of raw fish?
Snaring of woodland game?

On a side note, Gary doesn't think its possible to snare woodland game. I am taking that as a personal challenge. I don't know if its possible or not, but I think it is.

Discuss

That was Dustin mom, yell at him...

Pee and Poop

Pee and poop, pee and poop.

A Wild Hair

Don't you love the names of small town hair salons? Do they really think they are being creative? I think you have to get a license to cut hair or have a salon, part of that application should be a forbidding of improper spelling of words to form your salon. It's not cute. When Napolean Dynamite said he got his hair cut at the "Cuttin' Corral", those of us from small towns knew instantly that it was spelled Kuttin' Korral. My guess is the sign showed fence posts or logs arranged to form the letters for Kuttin' Korral.

Every town of at least 3000 - 4000 people has a salon called either the Hair Affair, the Wild Hair, or some phonetic K sounding girls name followed by Kurl's (Kathy's Kurls), of course there will always be the tricky spelling of the name as well.

However, I will have to give props to one salon that I saw in the tiny town of Merit, Texas. It's salon name? The Curl up and Dye. I like it.

If I ever started a salon, I'd call it Manelining Hairoin. It would bring in a whole new clientele that typically doesn't get their hair cut.

Or how about If I Cut You, You Will Dye for the goth crowd. I'll bet Edward Scissorhands is jealous I thought of that name first.

Moyes vs. Wild Update

So I guess you've heard our plan to raise money for Frank's surgery is going great... 2 points if you can name the movie.

So I think we've decided that Moyes vs. Wild will take place in the Eagle Cap Wilderness outside of LaGrande, OR. Its got all the elements needed for a true survivalist, its almost equal distance between Portland and Idaho, it has fish in the streams, wood to be burned and bear poo for nut gathering.

We're plannning Moyes vs. Wild in two stages, opposite of what the original plan is. Realizing that there men among us with bad knees (Gary and Dad) and weak constitution (Ryan), we will have the hardcore survival outing/backpacking first, and use the opportunity to scout an area for Moyes vs. Wild II where we can drive to camp spot and have some comforts if needed.

We've started a gear list here for those of you who are interested in the first go around. I have much gear if anyone needs to borrow anything, let me know. http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p2GRyg3N7vgfuSxXIv2ndbw