East Coast Backpacking!!!

Welcome to the ECB Page . . . This Week's Feature, is the photo extravaganza of Mount Rogers 1999

This website is a growing repository of biographies. When the bug to go backpacking hits, and you need a partner, come and visit. You might consider adding your own bio. Presently, there has been talk of breaking the East Coast Trip into two or three trips. North-South-Midwest type of thing. The southern affiliation of the ECT just completed their howdy's at the ECT Mount Rogers 1999 hoedown. In the mean time, the midwest affiliation has been biding there time, and waiting for the Mount Rogers Expedition to finish up before having a serious discussion about a trip to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in September. Well, the Mount Rogers trip is history and a bunch of fond memories. It is time to reactivate the midwest conversation which can be found at the Pictured Rocks/ECT thread. Todd Ward is the go to guy, and needs your input. So why don't you come on by, set fer a spell, and say howdy to everyone yoreself. We don't bite much.

It was last autumn, when the seed for an East Coast Trip was planted at Trail Talk. You can find everyone's personal bios at, of all places, the ECT Biography Page. Hopefully the ECT will be an ongoing event. Thanks to thebackpacker.com Trail Talk, we had a successful trip to Mount Rogers. Let's be sure to keep in touch, and start planning for our next trip.

Don't forget to join us at Phil's Page O' Pictures of Trail Talk Contributors. It helps to put a face to the names of those you have come to know, love, and respect at Trail Talk.

As far as my First Annual Freeze Your Butt Off Backpacking Trip to West Virginia is concerned, I probably would have froze to death. The week I planned to go, the temperature went down to - 15 degrees Fahrenheit. Well, I may be an Idiot, but I'm not crazy. However, I am disappointed. As an alternative, there is a West Virginia trip report from last December to Thunderstruck Rock & Roaring Plains in the Monongahela National Forest near Dolly Sods that you may wish to read.

If you are looking for any fresh ideas, boy have you come to the wrong place! But if you want some mildly entertaining thoughts and unsound advice regarding backpacking, then visit Idiot BoB's Page of Lame Tips & Lamentations. It has a ways to go, but this stale and unstable brain o' mine will come up with a few idears.

I decided to include a webpage dedicated to my hobby of banjo pickin'. There is a picture of the Kudzu Quartet (that's me on the left) that is in the process of makin' a bid for my banjo pickin' services.

Finally, no website worth a darn doesn't have a Favorite Sausage Links Page. This one is different than those on most other hiking websites. For starters, there's probably fewer links on this one. The links are limited in their scope to two very important topics, Backcountry Safety and Appalachian Environmental Issues. The criteria for selecting websites is their content and the thoughtfulness in which they are presented.

Idiot BoB

Now, will you please take me to the ECT Biography Page?

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