Stumpy,

"Hints?"  We don't need no stinkin' hints!! (nor Jamboree badges, neither!)  

What we need, Stumpy, are GREAT door prizes!  

And guess what????   At Jamboree & Jimboree, we WILL have them!!!        

COME ONE, COME ALL!!  IT IS NOW ONLY 69 SHORT DAYS UNTIL THE BLACK FLIES SEPARATE THE MEN FROM THE BOYS, THE WOMEN FROM THE GIRLS, & THE MANY WOULD-BE BUSHWHACKERS FROM EITHER: A) WHAT'S LEFT OF THEIR SANITY or B) THEIR VERY DUBIOUS CLAIM TO FAME... CHARTER MEMBERSHIP IN THE B.U.G.B.I.T. CLUB!!!!     COME SEE STUMPY TAKE ON WOODS WALKER IN THE JAMBOREE ARM WRASTLIN' CHAMPIONSHIP!!  COME SEE STUMPY TRY TO DEFEAT QP FOR THE JAMBOREE FROG LEGS FRYIN' TITLE!!!  BE THERE TO WITNESS BUSHWHACKERS CHALLENGE EACH OTHER TO ACTUALLY "DRINK" CHUB POND WATER!!!!!  DON'T MISS THIS CHANCE OF A LIFETIME TO WATCH B.U.G.B.I.T. CHARTER MEMBERS "RE-CREATE" MANY OTHER AUTHENTIC, BIZARRE, AND MOSTLY POINTLESS "COMPETITIONS" IN TRUE VOYAGEUR "RENDEZVOUS" STYLE & TRADITION!!!!

Just 69 days....

Jimbo   8)

Stumpy -

Fire walk in kilts??  Sounds like a real weenie roast. 

I'll pass on THAT competition, thanks.   

Nevertheless...   

IN ONLY 68 DAYS A FORTUNATE FEW WILL BEHOLD THE SPECTACLE OF THE MODERN VOYAGEUR AGE!!  A TRUE CANOE COUNTRY HAPPENING!!  A CHANCE TO ENCOUNTER EXOTIC NORTHERN LIFE FORMS... AS THEY PARADE THEIR MEANDERING WAY TO THE CHUB POND, OR ALTERNATIVE RANDOM DESTINATIONS, WHICHEVER THE CASE MAY BE.   

And don't forget those fabulous DOOR PRIZES for the first several voyageurs who stumble their way into Bushwhacker's Paradise!!   

Jimbo   8)

Old_Salt,

Everyone knows that Stumpy will be the guy in blue leotards,  red cape, & with a big "S" emblazoned upon his chest. 

It shouldn't be THAT hard to pick him out, even if the satellite picture quality is somewhat lacking....

Jimbo   8)

Hmmmmmm, great picture PJ!!  However, it prompts this question:

Just ONE "float plane"???  

I suspect we should be talking to Stumpy about the logistics of tethering a heavy-duty "dirigible" at the Chub Pond....

Jimbo   8)

Bruce,

PJ welcomed me to a "regional" QJ chapter meeting nearly two years ago with a bagpipe solo serenade.  It was as fine a performance as anyone in the North Country could ever hope to hear.

The man is a true professional & artist with the pipes.

Sure, I give him a lot of crap about the occasional pig-strangling sound qualities of those pipes in general (in the hands of an amateur) AND of their serving double-duty providing a "sonic cone of protection" against bears, bugs, & such.  Nevertheless, I fairly often DO think about something PJ posted, many moons ago.  In that post, PJ set up an intriguing Quetico fantasy scene at twilight.  He asked us to imagine the somber, wavering chords of "Amazing Grace", reverberating across the waters in evening stillness as the sun went down.

IMHO, there could be no more fitting way to end a first day of Jamboree than to hear him play that tune. 

In fact, I hope my kids hire the guy to do JUST THAT when they scatter my ashes over Cirrus Lake (somewhere west of the birch bark beetle "infestation" area, of course).  They would be doing us BOTH a big favor.

PJ has always DREAMED of writing off Quetico as a "business trip"....

Jimbo   8)