Who: 10 campers
What: The 2020 Mossy Butt Club camping trip. This is essentially a car camping trip with options to day hike. No need to bring ultralight camping gear, just bring what makes you comfortable. My canvas tent, as an example, weighs about 75lbs. No gear scale requirements to join although if you’d like to rock your DCF shelter, knock yourself out.
When: Noon Friday, November 13 through noon Sunday, November 15.
Where: Super sweet campsite about 20 miles east and downhill of the White Pass Summit. The campsite is about 5-ish miles off of highway 12 and accessible to all vehicles.
Since anyone and everyone can read this announcement and we don’t want to ruin this campsite by broadcasting its location to the world, we’ll message the exact location to attendees individually. It’s a beautiful spot with great water access. Code name Idester was kind enough to volunteer to head up there before the event to hold the spot for us.
Why: We’ve tried camping trips and hiking trips. Most have agreed that we can all go backpacking whenever we want and we prefer a camping centric trip that allows for more social distancing friendly socializing with the option to day hike.
How: Respond to this posting, message me, or message Doug. There are two of us already going with room for eight more. Once we reach a total of 10 we will update in a response below that the trip is full.
Notes
- Have a mask available and wear one when appropriate. We’re all adults. We are more than six months into this pandemic and understand what social distancing means at this point. No one is interested in playing the camp nag, just be cool and respect the wishes of others if they desire more distance.
- Bring a comfortable camp chair.
- Expect below-freezing temperatures day and night and perhaps snow.
- Pack it in pack it out.
- This is dispersed camping which means no bathroom facilities. More here https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/okawen/recreation/?cid=fseprd739027
- The campsite is relatively flat with plenty of room for multiple tents. There’s easy water access if you don’t want to haul water in with you.
- Typically importing firewood is frowned upon so we won’t provide any. Link to current fire restrictions or the lack thereof here https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/okawen/alerts-notices/?cid=fsbdev3_053600
- We will not be in the capital W Wilderness area so you’ll be able to drive up to the campsite, hence my 75-pound monstrosity of a tent.
- There are dozens of campsites nearby. If we happen to strike out at the primary site, we will message the attendees with the updated location.
- Historically these haven’t been gear-centric events. Invariably we’ll discuss gear some but there aren’t any organized show-and-tell gear events.
