Huntsville Weekend

by Ken Anderson

Roughly 35 people were in the piney woods of Huntsville State Park over the weekend of September 29th to October 1st for this annual HCC event. Everyone got a chance to paddle one another's boats, swap stories, and eat some rather good dutch oven cooking. Two of the cooks practiced their dutch oven skills in order to sharpen their edge at a dutch-oven cookoff scheduled for the following week.

Two relatively-new HCC'ers who drove up for the weekend with their boats with their grandma Christy Long

The event was well organized by Mary Z. We had great weather with neither rain nor bugs and low humidity with mild termperature.

If you got tired from paddling on Lake Raven, or hiking the 15 miles the park offers or even biking the 11- mile trail there were the Boundary Waters cooking lessons taught by experienced outdoor cooks. Here, for example, is our very own Cecilia learning how to cook from experienced hands:
The cooks or were Mary Z and Rudy Rivers, and Chirsty Long. And we ate it all...

Almost everyone helped with the cooking...

Ron Nulley brought one of his hand made boats. He says he builds them to be paddled but some of us think they should be framed as works of art.

One reason for going to Huntsville is we can try out each other's boats on flatwater just to get a feel for what other boats are like and you get to do so on the edge of a national forest.

Already looking forward to next year!