Greetings comrades, cronies, & contemporaries, As I may have intimated, I'm spending the moeity of the month of August canoe camping on our favorite lake in the Sierras, Utica Reservoir. <http://www.ebiow.yasashi.net/images/UTICA/> It is really lovely here, about 3.5 hours from Oakland at about 7,000 feet, great swimming and hiking, and since this is dispersed camping, you don't have to pay fees, listen to generators or suck SUV fumes. Anywho, I schlepped along a metric buttload of extra gear, so if you feel so inclined, please come on up. I have 3 extra tents, 5 sleeping bags, pads, plates, utensils, stoves, tables, chairs, cooking gear, the whole magila, so you only need to bring your clothes and any food you might want to consume (I'll have plenty of rice and beans, but few other goodies). I'll be here until August 30th because I have a funeral in Watsonville on the 31st. August 2014 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 The problem is where I'm camping is not immediately obvious if you haven't been here before (which many of you have). I'm at Point Edmund, to those who have been here, our favorite spot. And even many of you who have been here do not remember the specific directions well. So best is if you can hook up with my first wife Kathy, who is coming up Friday the 15th at about 1 PM and Thursday the 21st at roughly 5:30 PM. She'll be returning Sundays. She has room for 1 or 2 extra folks on the 15th & maybe 1 on the 21st, but you can caravan with her and she can lead folks to the spot. You can call her on her cell phone at 510-326-9328 or try our home phone at 510-763-0591. Or you can try to hook up with one of the people who has been here before and of course, if you know the way, feel free to come by whenever you want. If there is enough interest I might also go back to the hills in mid-September for a stretch, about the same time as the infamous Occupy Utica <http://www.ebiow.yasashi.net/videos/OccupyUticaLake_2013.avi> escapade last year. The hopes of the free (or at least the very cheap) world go with you, Ed PS: I don't have internet up here and will only be scanning my email periodically from a nearby internet cafe. Those of you with deep pockets and ATT phone service can get reception here. Kathleen is not an internet afficiando. Her schedule is fairly rigid, so if you wish to join her you should be at Slothaven on time.