I’ll have to add some more photos later this week when I’m not quite as tired, but the photo above is one of regrettably few that I took over this weekend.  The weather was beautiful, with partly cloudy skies and the temperature was right around 72 for the duration of the trip.  We did a bit of everything from shooting guns to fishing and going on a short hike.  We also did other manly things like set up camp at night, cut firewood, and forced a bear to strangle another bear that we then rassled into submission and sent him on his merry way.  Seriously, for 4 nerds out in the country we were that badass.

Save for hanging out with some of my closest friends around the fire and goofing off though, I have to say the favorite part of the trip for me was finally getting to finish R.A. Salvatore’s most excellent Sojourn.

A good friend of mine turned me on to Drizzt when he got me the Icewind Dale trilogy for Christmas a few years ago and I’ve been absolutely hooked on the character ever since.  While Jon, Jake, and Kevin went fishing, I preferred the shade of a nearby tree, taking in the remainder of the afternoon engrossed in the tale of Drizzt’s adjustment to the surface world after fleeing Menzoberranzan.

Frankly I don’t get an awful lot of time to just sit and enjoy a good book and being out in the sprawling wilderness of Zeleski State Forest seemed as fitting a backdrop as ever for me to finally do just that.  It was a great read only further enhanced by the atmosphere and was incredibly relaxing.  Of course, while all this reading was happening the guys were busy fishing, but I couldn’t much be bothered to join in being so close to the end of another awesome tale by Salvatore.

Again, this is just a quick post about heading out to camp, but sometime this week after I’ve gathered the rest of the photos I’ll be sure to expand a bit ,maybe with a timeline of what all we got into.  I will say though that if you have the means, I’d highly recommend making a visit there though!