Tough Men Clan - 11 JUL 61

11 July 61

T H E
D A I L Y  G L U G G G G   G A Z E T T E

:::  Woke up with the mountain poking up into the middle of a leaky cloud.  Leaky lean-tos too. Patch work and dry out-work before breakfast.  Cocktail Hour of the Red-Eye Whiskey (tomato joos.)  Practice wearing ponchos.

HARD LEARNED LESSON

   Firewood is one of the camp’s most necessary items of survival.  Our warmth, food and morale are centered around our blazing fires.  No blaze, no food and good spirits. Therefore it is necessary to keep some wood covered and dry at all times. True, a blazing fire will ignite a wet log, after a while, but where did the hot flames come from in the first place?  When the sun is out, squirrel-away as much wood as possible because the next hour or the next day and week might bring a cloudbust.  Stash a log-pile in your lean-to, under the cook tent, even under a bush or tree. Then most important of all, kindling split fire should be kept in a tin can with a larger tin can over it for a rain cover. With all these preparations reasoned out BEFORE you need them, you won’t be cold and miserable like us idiots who forgot to think ahead.

Iron Jaw Marcus, 4^th Yr Mt Man

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Take a few basic techniques and grind them in well rather than become over anxious trying to learn everything at once and retaining little.  We have one Permanent Vice President in charge of making Battery Acid, Possum and one for Sterilized water, Wolf.  Most anybody pitches in as VP of the Automatic Dishwasher. 

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NEW MOUNTAIN MEN GIVEN THEIR MEDICINE NAMES

 ** Because he’s young and tender (8 yrs old) and like the 
    delicate things in life, we no longer know who Stuart 
    is because now he answers to GOLDEN TROUT.

 ** His brother, who used to be Thomas Cameron, sat 
    fascinated in front of his lean-to fire, huddled 
    inside of his sleeping bag     warm and secure 
    while it was cold and wet outside, and there his 
    medicine totem was developed: SPARKING COALS.

 ** Let former Scott Kretchmer make his own brag:

    “I am a man Who loves the forest. Who understands why 
    some people are mean and croul to others.  But if 
    I understand them I can live easier with tehm or away 
    from them. I do not mind being alone. I can choos 
    my frends.  That is why in the montens I am called

LONE WOLF!!”

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                      BOOKS ARE OUR BEST FRIENDS

   Books need much better (in fact the BEST) care of anything in camp, because if it rains you can dry most things out, including yourself.

But once a book gets wet or dirty, yu have made a terrible mistke and insult.  Books are the most important tools of a survival camp.  They TEACH. From them you can lean how to stay alive and comfortable and in good morale.  Since we have no nails in the mountains, we use the mountain-man’s nails: rope. I made a book shelf under my lean-to by hanging a borad with rope. 

POSSUM PERLMAN 3^rd Yr Mt Man

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EVENING CONCERT

As the stars were poking out and Coyotes yipping across the Valley of Goodness, a truly rich baritone voice flowed out like rolling thunder: “O sinner-man, where you gonna run to...rocks are a-melting...O on that day...”  Muscle Back singing out with a vast majesty of a spirit growing so deliciously large that it cannot be contained within the heart, so it burst and flows and echoes with its joy of life

Bravo! Encore!! Then a good night’s sleep.