Happy New Year

Happy holidays from the Cleavers!!! I hope everyone has had a great holiday season. I am about to take on the assembly of the cataraft frame and get her set up for the next day over 50 deg F so we can take her out. I got the ITCH and I don't think any ointment will help.

Smell A

Another beautiful Xmas in So Cal.

Can't touch D in a box, but here goes.

We hit Silver Mt. in Kellog for Christmas. 7 new on 9 old soft soft soft and carvy. Roster: Team Stockman (a one planker and an alpiner), Jester (alpiner), Mikey (telly wus), and Dillon Keith (retro alpiner). We were so busy skiing, I forgot to take pictures. These are of the Bowl on the 26th.

We skied bell to bell and loved every minute.

Lines courtesy of K2, Mikey's dope new truck, El Nino, sticky icky, gange ola and yo mama.


Highlights: Looking back uphill on the first run and seeing the rest of the roster ripping the fn sht out of some powder. Getting to the top of an 8 minute hike and hearing Mikey bitch. Skiing the best line of the day after listening to Mikey bitch about where I brought him. Jumping over an "out of bounds" rope and clearing it by two inches. 360. Getting to the bottom of what was supposed to be our last run, nodding to eachother and getting back on the chair without a word. Gange ola.

Happy Festivus People

A PRESENT FOR YOU
(CLICK ON THE WORDS)

Boatin in December

It's interesting to see how rafting equipment handles freezing weather. Coooold!

Cherry Mistmas

Jose Cuervo Christmas Cookies

1 cup of water
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup of brown sugar
1 cup lemon juice
4 large eggs
1 cup nuts
2 cups of dried fruit
1 bottle Jose Cuervo Tequila

Sample the Cuervo to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the Cuervo
again, to be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.

Turn on the electric mixer...Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.

Add one teaspoon of sugar...Beat again.
At this point it's best to make sure the Cuervo is still OK, try another cup .... just in case.

Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break 2 eggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit, Pick the
frigging fruit off floor... Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers just pry it loose with
a drewscriver. Sample the Cuervo to check for tonsisticity.

Next, sift two cups of salt, or something. Who giveshz a sheet. Check the Jose Cuervo again for consistancy.
Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find. Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over. Don't forget to beat off the turner.
Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish the Cose Juervo and make sure to put the stove in the dishwasher.
CHERRY MISTMAS

REGULATE THE RIVERS!!!!

For My Democrat Friends:

"Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere, and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishes. By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher."

For My Republican Friends:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Poker? Hardly Know Er!

I can't believe no one has put up anything on this.

Poker Joe up your ass.

Opinions are like assholes. Way to safely skirt the middle, Missoulian. Applause. God forbid you take a stand. Jesus.

LONG LIVE THE MONTANA STREAM ACCESS LAW, even if we have to shoot ourselves out of cannons to access state waters.

Yeah, I am surly. It is slow around here and they are drilling in the walls behind my head. There is a great sticker on a cooler that sums it up for me "FUCK WORK!"

DO YOU KNOW THIS GUY?

His name is Ralph Heinert and is a Republican legislator from Libby. He is also the ass-face that is proposing/sponsoring legislation to implement a permit system for floating Rock Creek in Granite Co. As you all know, when there is a permit system, there are implementation and administrative costs, so there will need to be fees. Here is the link to the bill:
http://laws.leg.mt.gov/pls/laws07/LAW0210w$BSIV.ActionQuery?P_BILL_DFT_NO5=LC0972&Z_ACTION=Find


As proven above, the Groove is not lying to you. Potentially next spring you will have to be rewarded a permit and then pay fees to float Rock Creek. Float fishing the salmon fly hatch could be a thing of the past, or similar to getting a July Middle Fork Salmon Permit. So you ask what you can do about this...write/talk to your legislators and get this bill stopped! Maybe Jester can get something published and even interview this pole-smoker.

Remember, if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem!

Argentina

Gotta get a new photo up.


My buddy's hike in Argentina

4 RIVERS

YO! Get on it! Nanner's hungry. Like I gotta say it but, deadline: Jan 31

http://www.fs.fed.us/r4/sc/recreation/4rivers/index.shtml



Tropical Night Lives!

BSC for BSU!!!!!!!!!

Amazing, Boise is headed to the Fiesta bowl to face the 7 time national champion Oaki Sooners. The 7 time national, 7 time, national, national, 7, champs, national, big, large, puppies landing on my face. Sorry, I spaced out there. GO BSU. Big bucks for BSU and the WAC,. @3.5 million for BSU alone. Tough game. I've heard 8 1/2- 40 point spreads. GO BSU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got me a wigeon

I even had to fetch it myself. It fell too far in the current for Wilma to get. I however, had a motor boat so I wasn't too mad at her.

 

Undead

How about a photo of something not dead?


Hint: it is from a river in Idaho. . .

Fred

This is Fred. Fred is dead.

Meat in the freeza', time to go skiin'.

Nanner For Sale

Auto and I are selling the Nanner, so we can purchase a round boat. There are no patches/leaks, and the only thing wrong with her is the previous owner put a ding in the frame. We are going to sell her loaded: oars, cooler, second seat, cooler mount and the straps that hold her together. $1300 to a friend, $1500 to others, anyone interested?

Dr. Stocker!!

Congrats Keith!

 

Hank the Tank

Here is Hank, he was once a beautiful deer. Now he is dead, gutted and hanging in our garage.

Man Against Beast

Went out to the family ranch outside of Imnotpostingitonline Montana this weekend where I could legally shoot either sex muley. I had dreams and aspirations of shooting a great big buck, so I could ridicule you bastards online. We arrived Friday night and as we were driving onto the ranch, Auto stated that I’ll have the best chances for deer if I wake up and hunt near the hay bales. Anyway, after staying up until 1:30 AM drinking 2/3 of a bottle of Blackberry Brandy plus beers with her 85ish year old grandpa, he has me convinced that I need to go to a different place. I figure it is his ranch, so I should listen to him and not my beloved wife.

After Miles woke me up at 4:30 AM because he wanted to go eat cat turds, and then woke me up again at 6 to go eat some more, I got out of bed blurry eyed and sharp as a butter knife. Miles then proceeded to run away and I whistled, cursed him, and called his name. After a bit, I give up and decided that I was going hunting. Figured I’d shoot either a deer or a lab.

It was still dark and I crunched the whole way on cottonwood leaves to where grandpa Earl had told me to go, and I had opportunities at a few does that I passed up. Then I climbed a hill and saw a couple little bucks with a bunch of does right next to the straw bales where Auto told me to go (there have been several I told you so’s, and she was right), put the sneak on them, had the buck in the picture at 100 yards broadside and I had a decent rest on a fencepost, so I thought to myself, self…you could pass this one up because there are bigger deer around, then again, I thought back to the year where I passed up a little 1X2, and then I never had another shot the rest of the season…so I shot him and Auto named him Hank.

The next morning, I went out to feed the dogs and take a leak, and sure enough there was a four point 50 yards from the back of the shop where I was relieving myself. He had his nose so far up this does cooter that he didn’t even notice me until Miles came looking for me and I had to restrain him from going after the deer. Oh well, he’ll be bigger next year and there will be smoked polish sausage and jerky in the freezer in a few days.

Hunting with Zach

Mikey: That looks like an elk.
Zach: Well, put your scope on it.
Mikey: I think it's a cow
Zach: I think it has horns...."BOOM!"

No elk, missed cleanly. At the end of the day, Mikey let Zach shoot a 4 point whitey because it was his last day of the season in Montana.

Random Pics

Last day of work for the year...found some photos I took of the Meadow Fire this past summer.

Upcoming lottery

Any thought as to what rivers and days we want to float this year? I'm looking for an early spring middlefork or maybe a selway. Any thoughts? Is anyone thinking of pre season selway this year? This will help in the decision process.

P.S. Looks like the dude on the left is taking a dump, or trying to make the tail look heavy.

This fishie is named Filbert, thanks Connie.

'Merica! F- Yeah!

Burns is out! Tester in as Montana's new U.S. Senator!

This is going to be great for Montana! Thanks for voting Walt.

Fuck-A-Duck!!!

Anyone wanna take tomorrow off and meet me on the Lochsa???

One Green Head and Three Types of Pork

Voted absentee, so went duck hunting this morning and it was a fabulous hunt. Went out to Reverend Larry's where his property is adjacent to a stream fed pond and all the ground surrounding the thing is private. Were walking down to set up 1/2 hour before shooting hours and spooked a ton of geese, some swans, and a bunch of ducks. Anyway, we were hoping for the geese to come back, so passed up a bunch of ducks in the early morning so as not to spook all the birds away since this pond does not get hunted. Then around 9 we lost faith that the geese were coming back to the pond, so we started shooting at ducks. One green head in the bag and a few more spent shells at missed ducks later, we noticed a highway patrolman at the opposite end of the pond. After we packed up our decoys, got stuck in the slime (light cotton socks bad with large wader boots), we got done hunting and were received by a county sheriff, a highway patrolman, and a game warden. No shit, three popo for one greenhead.

Anyway, the game warden checked our licenses and we were completely legal, and since Larry owns property down to the pond, the sheriff and highway patrol apologized for wasting our time. We had offended all of the neighbors and I even got a hate note left on my truck. All and all a great morning of hunting, and God Damn if I am not going to have to write another letter to the editor telling assholes to go fuck themselves and if they don't want hunting near their property, they should move into town.

Moral of the story, don't throw stones in glass houses. I plan on buying Larry a skeet thrower for Christmas. I know a great place we can go, anyone interested...Cheers!

Groover

Cornbread Burns

Whoah! Busted a gut reading this one.

"My fact sheet was headlined crude oil in grand canyon national park. It had a nice picture of the Grand Canyon on it. I was going to be Matthew Taibbi, Government Relations adviser for Dosko, a fictional Russian firm representing various energy interests, including a fictional oil company called PerDuNefteGaz that wanted to drill for oil in the Grand Canyon. My friend ratified the plan as the perfect lobbyist's pitch: shady foreign company seeking to violate, with a long metal phallus, America's most sacred natural landmark. I'd be welcomed with open arms, he said."

Want more?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9519839/how_to_be_a_lobbyist_without_trying

Who is this Connie???

A mystery indeed...
but what do we know of her???
bacon makes her crazy,
she can be lured with cheese,
she is 30, a liberal
and likes to spend time
with ed and autumn...
hmmm....
reveal yourself!!!! (leave the shirt on though)

Feed ME!

These folks will outfit food on the Grand Canyon. www.canyonreo.com

They also do shuttles, boats, coolers, dry boxes, toilets. . . whatever you want!

It is just a thought.

Ode to the incept

Andrea was the only one to recover from this one. Didn't quite hit her squared up. One of very few times that I had issues in her. It didn't take long after this for me to set the frame up differently.

Kill the National Park Service!!!!

Dear Mr. Sullivan,
My name is Walter Bernauer and I'm writing you today in regards to the lottery that was just held. I'm sure you know all too well about the computer program problems that evolved during the last step of the lottery. On Wednesday I checked my profile and my Status was "Congratulations, your application has been selected". I can't begin to tell you how I felt. From the highest of highs, I hit the lowest of lows when on Thursday I checked my Status and it stated "lottery still in progress". I imediately called your office and was told that in fact I did have a permit but they were just double checking the results. To my dismay, this morning, of course, my Status read "unfortunately you were not......".
I understand that there are 25 left over dates to be put into a second lottery. I am asking you today to please consider giving those who were told they had a permit an opportunity to obtain those dates before the lottery.
Regards,
Walter Bernauer
(406) 949-0544
walterbernauer@bresnan.net

Lochsa Follies

Good times rolling on Auto's banana boat. I didn't know if you all had seen this one from this year. Our yellow banana boat is sold and we are picking up Artie's 16' cat. I'll be sad to see the round boat go. Lot's of fond memories. Auto's boat is the new Nanner now. Let's hope she can live up to to the reputaion of the Incept.

Alaska fishing trip

Just trying to see if this post will work. (Yep, Walt, it only took about a year, but finally got it figured out - - I think.) Here's a pic from my Alaska fishing trip in August. Cleaver.

Tickle my balls.....

Status: Congratulations, your application has been selected!

We're going on the Grand!

Excuse me while I go drink.....

packin' out

B and me went back on sunday to pack it out...that's a hind quarter on her back and uugghhh...two quarters on my back(dumbass!). Luckly it was only half a mile or so to the road.

Sittin' there readin' my book and.....

......here comes a bull walking down the trail I'm sitting on. Shot it at 11 yards.

Lets talk huntin

Bern-T-Boater Page

Tis the season to discuss issues other than rafting and diseased racoons. This was early rifle out of Cook City...not mine. Makes me think about heavier grained bullets. Who wants to form an elk pack-out call list?

10 days left.....

You all have ten days left to put in for the Grand. Please don't pull a "Doc" and just hope someone else pulls a permit!

 

The Lower

Auto pulls out the shirt.The Colemans
We entered Africa on our layover day.