Comments on: Wahtum Lake http://www.rexgoode.com/?p=122 My work, my ideas, my faith, my life Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:14:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Eric D. Dixon http://www.rexgoode.com/?p=122&cpage=1#comment-265 Eric D. Dixon Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:39:04 +0000 http://www.rexgoode.com/?p=122#comment-265 "Once you’re on a trail like that, just sitting down and giving up is not an option." -- Rex Goode "If you're going through hell, keep going." -- Winston Churchill “Once you’re on a trail like that, just sitting down and giving up is not an option.” — Rex Goode

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill

]]> By: Rex Goode http://www.rexgoode.com/?p=122&cpage=1#comment-224 Rex Goode Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:49:12 +0000 http://www.rexgoode.com/?p=122#comment-224 Well, you made Scouting fun for me. I really didn't want to do it, but after getting to know you and the others, I loved it! Well, you made Scouting fun for me. I really didn’t want to do it, but after getting to know you and the others, I loved it!

]]> By: Matt http://www.rexgoode.com/?p=122&cpage=1#comment-223 Matt Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:48:57 +0000 http://www.rexgoode.com/?p=122#comment-223 You're absolutely right - just stopping midtrail really isn't a good option on a hike like that. The simple truth is, I was awfully soft and lazy, and a hike like that just wasn't within the realm of my own reality at that point. I actually do have some pretty fun memories of that hike - and tons and tons of good memories of scouting with you - it's just more fun to mine the experience for comedy gold! I felt pretty guilty at the time for quitting, but there just wasn't any other way that could have played out, given my own poor preparation. But I'm glad as many finished it as did! You’re absolutely right – just stopping midtrail really isn’t a good option on a hike like that. The simple truth is, I was awfully soft and lazy, and a hike like that just wasn’t within the realm of my own reality at that point. I actually do have some pretty fun memories of that hike – and tons and tons of good memories of scouting with you – it’s just more fun to mine the experience for comedy gold! I felt pretty guilty at the time for quitting, but there just wasn’t any other way that could have played out, given my own poor preparation. But I’m glad as many finished it as did!

]]> By: Rex Goode http://www.rexgoode.com/?p=122&cpage=1#comment-221 Rex Goode Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:57:18 +0000 http://www.rexgoode.com/?p=122#comment-221 I learned a bit too. I'm sorry it was at your expense. On future hikes, I insisted on knowing what they were packing the week before we went. That I didn't think of that so you could have gone the whole way is my regret. One common dilemma I've always had on hikes when I feel responsible is that I feel responsible for the group as a whole. When one isn't able to do it, I couldn't slow it up for everyone. That's not as callous as it seems. I was also concerned for you. Once you're on a trail like that, just sitting down and giving up is not an option. By the time we got to the rendezvous point with Phil W., you were really too exhausted to want to carry on. There wasn't really a way to change your mind. Well, the rest of it was fun in a masochistic sort of way. :) Either way, they're days to be remembered. I learned a bit too. I’m sorry it was at your expense. On future hikes, I insisted on knowing what they were packing the week before we went. That I didn’t think of that so you could have gone the whole way is my regret.

One common dilemma I’ve always had on hikes when I feel responsible is that I feel responsible for the group as a whole. When one isn’t able to do it, I couldn’t slow it up for everyone. That’s not as callous as it seems. I was also concerned for you. Once you’re on a trail like that, just sitting down and giving up is not an option.

By the time we got to the rendezvous point with Phil W., you were really too exhausted to want to carry on. There wasn’t really a way to change your mind. Well, the rest of it was fun in a masochistic sort of way. :)

Either way, they’re days to be remembered.

]]> By: Matt http://www.rexgoode.com/?p=122&cpage=1#comment-220 Matt Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:05:01 +0000 http://www.rexgoode.com/?p=122#comment-220 I think you're right about the map - I sure whined a lot, but it really was my own fault for not being prepared. For what it's worth, I think I learned more from that trip by NOT being prepared than I would have by BEING prepared. Honestly, my dad thought he was doing me a favor by getting all that canned food - spaghettios, beefaroni, stuff like that - but neither of us considered the inconvenient matter of exactly how that food was going to get from the parking lot to the campsite. I think I even had some Kraft macaroni and cheese in there! How the @#$!$ was I supposed to cook that on a campout??? Oh well, I ate it all when I got home (LOL!) Good times, though, even if I have always regretted not finishing the hike (and I honestly have). I think you’re right about the map – I sure whined a lot, but it really was my own fault for not being prepared. For what it’s worth, I think I learned more from that trip by NOT being prepared than I would have by BEING prepared. Honestly, my dad thought he was doing me a favor by getting all that canned food – spaghettios, beefaroni, stuff like that – but neither of us considered the inconvenient matter of exactly how that food was going to get from the parking lot to the campsite. I think I even had some Kraft macaroni and cheese in there! How the @#$!$ was I supposed to cook that on a campout??? Oh well, I ate it all when I got home (LOL!) Good times, though, even if I have always regretted not finishing the hike (and I honestly have).

]]> By: Rex Goode http://www.rexgoode.com/?p=122&cpage=1#comment-218 Rex Goode Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:07:38 +0000 http://www.rexgoode.com/?p=122#comment-218 I hated to see you go. You were a lot of fun. I hated to see you go. You were a lot of fun.

]]> By: Rex Goode http://www.rexgoode.com/?p=122&cpage=1#comment-217 Rex Goode Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:06:29 +0000 http://www.rexgoode.com/?p=122#comment-217 I think it was my idea to not let you see the map. :) I think it was my idea to not let you see the map. :)

]]> By: Matt http://www.rexgoode.com/?p=122&cpage=1#comment-216 Matt Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:27:40 +0000 http://www.rexgoode.com/?p=122#comment-216 I remember that horrible, awful, hellish trip like it was yesterday! That was the last time I ever let anybody talk me into something as idiotic as hiking 50 miles into the wilderness, wearing tennis shoes and an overloaded and ill-adjusted backpack, and carrying a giant duffel bag filled with canned goods that my dad bought for the trip!!! What could I possibly have been thinking??? I was not bred for that kind of toil! I don't get it though: the guys in the scout manual sure looked like they were having fun oh *their* hike (they were even carrying CANOES, for crying out loud! How come we never canoed?!), so why was I being punished so cruelly? Thank Heaven for the ever patient and longsuffering Phil Willoughby and his big green van! Like all forms of Church sports, 50-mile hikes are one of the things that I've learned to avoid, no matter how strong the feeling of obligation to participate. But you were a great scoutmaster, Rex, even if you did keep telling me, "We're almost there - it's just around the corner!" for, like, 4 hours...funny how nobody would ever let me see the map...And just whose job was it to make sure we hiked along every 12-inch wide, 1,000 foot high cliff in the Cascade Range? Seriously, though, that is the just about the only bad memory I have of scouting, so you must have done something right! Glad to hear from you, Rex! I remember that horrible, awful, hellish trip like it was yesterday! That was the last time I ever let anybody talk me into something as idiotic as hiking 50 miles into the wilderness, wearing tennis shoes and an overloaded and ill-adjusted backpack, and carrying a giant duffel bag filled with canned goods that my dad bought for the trip!!! What could I possibly have been thinking??? I was not bred for that kind of toil! I don’t get it though: the guys in the scout manual sure looked like they were having fun oh *their* hike (they were even carrying CANOES, for crying out loud! How come we never canoed?!), so why was I being punished so cruelly? Thank Heaven for the ever patient and longsuffering Phil Willoughby and his big green van! Like all forms of Church sports, 50-mile hikes are one of the things that I’ve learned to avoid, no matter how strong the feeling of obligation to participate. But you were a great scoutmaster, Rex, even if you did keep telling me, “We’re almost there – it’s just around the corner!” for, like, 4 hours…funny how nobody would ever let me see the map…And just whose job was it to make sure we hiked along every 12-inch wide, 1,000 foot high cliff in the Cascade Range? Seriously, though, that is the just about the only bad memory I have of scouting, so you must have done something right! Glad to hear from you, Rex!

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