db wrote on Dec 6^th, 2013 at 7:15am:

Refresh my memory please, who here has shown up at the predetermined Bushwhackers Jamboree lake at the Bushwhackers Jamboree appointed time besides pghportager and crew because that seems (to me) what they enjoy doing anyway? This is the third scheduled Jamboree right?

As for me, I converted from Jamboree's to Jimboree's when I waved the white flag on the very first outing.  You REALLY need to consider the lay of the land when you initially position yourself to do these things... & we hadn't done a good job of that.  The only good approach was from other side of Stumpy's selected land mass.  My error stared me right in the face; when the fog & deluge of rain let up, slippery dripping cliffs loomed above me and my canoe party retreated to follow other pursuits.

As I understand it, there WAS a second Jamboree (5 years later) at which a large number of adventurers actually "made it."  Apparently, a small industrious group arrived a couple days early & lumber-jacked a reasonable facsimile of the New Jersey Turnpike (ie. portage) straight to the selected destination... exponentially reducing the effort required to reach it from a major canoeing thoroughfare.  I guess you can't hold back "progress."  Rumor has it that groups of 90 year old great grandmothers now frequent this route to basecamp at the site of Bushwhacker's Jamboree #2.

So, yes, this will be the year of Bushwhacker Jamboree #3.  As it will also be the occasion of Bushwhacker Jimboree #15 (we like to think we have 5 times as much fun), I may once again try to arrange my event in general vicinity of their more "aggressive" venture.  Our outings, on the other hand, require no particular aptitude other than it helps if you can tell a decent tale around the campfire.  Chances are, many of our tales will be about the OTHER event... and the howls of misery that emanate from the depths of nearby wilderness.

To each their own.  I will certainly make a toast to these more industrious, intrepid warriors... probably several.

Jimbo   8-)