Annals of Kanoe - Volume XVI-XX

When: July 27-28, 2002

Who attended:

Pave, Fish, Wil, Grass, Rocky, and Furree*

5th Annual Friday Night Awards (for Kanoe 15 performance and achievements):

• "Wil" presented Kanoester of the year: "Pound-for-Pound" Furree.

Most memorable events:

• Furree drank too much on Shirt Night, and was too sick to make it on the actual Kanoe trip! Thus, the asterisk by his name. An unprecedented performance by Pound-for-Pound!
• Somebody took our campsite, so we camped at alternate camp site #2, which was over on Fisher land.
• Rocky was shaking in his boots due to the proximity of slamming car doors up on the road. He was afraid we were about to be Deliveranced by Poolies.
• Dud told some great stories about his new girlfriend - an accomplishment given that Dud is no story-teller.
• Fish felt that it was the worst Kanoe ever, saying: "Let us leave this place and never speak of it again."
• Contrary to popular opinion, it was not so bad (even though it rained overnight).

Click on these picture icons to expand some images from before/after the trip (courtesy of Mr. Furree) ... we don't seem to have any from the trip itself:

Sick Furree 1	Sick Furree 2	Sick Furree 3
The Lineup	Three Kanoes	Rocky and Dud
Pave and Fish	Sunday Breakfast	Sunday Breakfast
Sunday Breakfast	Sunday Breakfast

When: July 26-27, 2003

Who attended:

Pave, Fish, Furree, Vich, Wil, Grass, and sort of Jones

6th Annual Friday Night Awards (for Kanoe 16 performance and achievements):

• For the first time, Friday night festivities were held somewhere besides the Place. This year it was at the Furree house, where we had a surprise bachelor party (entertainment by Ashton) for Furree (yes, his wedding was 2 weeks earlier, but better late than never). It was quite an event. ("Not bad for a softy.")
• Furree, after reviewing the votes of the Kanoesters who actually attended last year's trip, awarded Kanoester of the Year to Grass. Grass then did the unprecedented act of giving the trophy to Mr. and Mrs. Furree as Honorary Kanoesters of the Year. They will hold onto it for the next year.
• Grass also got the storyteller of the year for the Towanda Country Club bar story.
• Jones missed the stumble (and most of the bachelor party), as he spent it in the bathroom sick from food poisoning. He then missed Kanoe on Saturday, following in Furree's footsteps from last year.

Most memorable events:

• The river was as high as it's ever been. Because of this, for the first time in years we carried all of our gear (rather than ferry it the short distance up from the take-out spot, which would have been impossible this year due to the current). We made it to the Stone in only 1 hour!
• We arrived at the site and were stunned to see our Kanoe sign relocated from its position back in the woods to a tree at the site. Fortunately it had been treated with respect. Nevertheless, when we left, we took it with us. Pave will restore it in the off-season and we'll bring it back next year.
• Grass once again cleared away any story-teller competition with his two impressive stories (Las Vegas and Dupont Dawn).
• Wil and Grass dominated the evening's pig tournament. Fish and Furree were competitive, while Vich and Pave were cursed and performed pitifully.

Click on these picture icons to expand some memorable images from the trip:

When: July 24-25, 2004

Who attended:

Pave, Fish, Furree, Vich, Wil, Jones, sort of Grass, ... and McKay (see below)!

7th Annual Friday Night Awards (for Kanoe 17 performance and achievements):

• Dud presented Kanoester of the year: Mr. and Mrs. Furree for hosting Furree's bachelor party ... unprecedented: a non-Kanoester won Kanoester of the year!
• Dud presented Storyteller of the year: Jones for many years of serving as the technique-demonstration body.
• Dud then skipped out on the stumble (but not before gunning an OM pounder, thereby winning the shotgunner of the year without even making the trip!) and the rest of the weekend because he had to work the overnight shifts at DuPont on both Friday and Saturday nights.
• With Bulls' Pub now out of business, the stumble only hit 2 places: Finlan's and Copper Bar. Surprisingly, Finlan's has turned into quite a hot place (although with no change in decor).
• It was a relatively early stumble night, with no "casualties".

Most memorable events:

• The river was high again this year. We again carried most of our gear, and made it to the Stone in about 1.5 hrs.
• We arrived at the site and were stunned to find 5 tents set up at the site. Only one had gear in it, but after a couple of beers, and a couple of votes, we decided not to camp at the site.
• We did re-install the restored Kanoe sign, though.
• We took out our Kanoes and headed to Jones' family's land in Sullivan county near the beginning of the Loyalsock trail.
• After a few hours at the campfire, we headed into the cabin (no tents this year) to play pigs at 10:30. At about 10:45 the door flew open (scaring me to death, given that we were in the middle of nowhere), and in came McKay, who none of us knew was planning on coming to Kanoe this year. He tried to surprise us at the site, but not finding us there, he tracked us down with the help of Mrs. Christini, who tracked down Leah Jones, who then drove the 40 minute trip to Laporte and led McKay to us. It took him about 3 hours, but he tracked us down.
• He rejuvenated the party, and we had a couple more hours around the campsite.
• Sunday morning we had breakfast at Pam's in Dushore, and then parted company.

Click on these picture icons to expand some memorable images from the trip:

Lineup	Pave, Cole, Furree, and Olivia	Kanoesters in disarray
Floating	Rehanging sign	Rehanging sign
By the sign 1	By the sign 2
Outside Ponderosa III	Reenactment of McKay's arrival	By the fire

When: July 30-31, 2005

Who attended:

Pave, Fish, Furree, Vich, Wil, Jones, Grass, and Rocky

8th Annual Friday Night Awards (for Kanoe 18 performance and achievements):

• Fish, Wil, Furree, and Dud went to the stone (with kids) on Friday afternoon to set up a junk tent and "reserve" the site for us for Saturday. The hope was that we wouldn't lose the site again this year ... it worked.
• We actually forgot to give the awards ... but on Saturday at the site, the Kanoester of the Year was awarded to McKay (in absentia) for his surprise appearance last year.
• No storyteller of the year award was given.
• Again, the stumble only hit 2 places: Finlan's and Copper Bar.
• It was a relatively early stumble night, with no "casualties".

Most memorable events:

• The river was very low this year.
• The guy we ordered the kanoes from didn't show up (we waited from 12:00 to 12:50). So we took the flagship and all the gear to Standing Stone and shuttled everything across.
• Thus, we unfortunately didn't get to paddle down the river this year. Because of this, we were set up and ready to go by about 2pm ... very early.
• Not too much unusual this year. The highlight was probably the target shooting competitions we had using the bb-gun Vich brought.
• Dud, as usual, won the gunner of the year award. Notably, he was joined by Vich for a shotgun - Vich's first in years.
• Vich also staked out a strong claim for "Storyteller of the year" for next year.

Click on these picture icons to expand some memorable images from the trip:

Friday	Friday at the sign	Wil and Sara
Dud gunnin' on Friday	Wil and family	Dionne and Cole
Ready to launch	Furree with pellet gun	At the sign
At the sign with ghost Dud	pigs	Dud and Vich gunnin'

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