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Dude Camp 2017

Due to conflicts arising from my having so many "jobs", I was only able to join Team Dude Camp for half of its annual work adventure up to Mt. Rainier. But in that time, I still was able to check off most of the Dude Camp highlights and feel like I helped out.

As loyal BdW followers may know, Dude Camp is what I call an annual work trip I make down to a job site just outside of Mt. Rainier National Park. We work hard cleaning, building, restoring, planting, and manicuring the grounds of a private vacation home while using our free time to play horseshoes, frisbee golf, poker, watch dumb (but awesome) movies, eat steaks and as many M&Ms as is justifiable.

Though the name wasn't christened until quite recently, team Dude Camp has been working at the site for almost 30 years from it's humble beginnings until today's not so humble magnificence. It's always great hearing stories about when this was put in, why that was torn out, the year it sleeted non-stop for 2 weeks, etc. Having been along for 5 of the last 6 years, I feel I'm starting to be able to join in on telling the stories and being part of the lore, even if in only the smallest way. All in all, it's a great reminder in stepping back and looking at things on a longer scale and what intense periods of hard work can create over time.

And in the interest of posterity and record keeping, here's a photo of the year's other big project (done by Flip, with my only contribution of my standard lifting heavy rocks with my back.) It's about 7 feet tall and really stunning. It being the first attempt at anything like it, there were some blowouts and hiccups along the way, but miracles prevailed with it being finished in the perfect amount of time with not one rock or glob of concrete wasted.

Anyway, another Dude Camp down and hopefully many more to come!

Thursday May 11 2017

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