Camps - great, bad and weird

I can''t let this thread die - there are too many good stories out there...

Even the shittiest of holes can be OK if the conditions are right. There was one exploration camp in Newfoundland back in the flow-through funding days, called Cape Ray. It was a muddy, swampy, windy, foggy, treeless moonscape, but the cook was a genius and had a no-limits budget for food, as long as he didn''t waste. It was not uncommon to do your month there and never eat the same thing twice.

I guess it''s all a matter of perspective. One time I was ferrying a Hughes 500 from Pasadena NF to Montreal, and had landed in Sept-Iles for fuel. A gruff looking chap in a competitor''s A-Star was tanking up at the same time and asked me in French where I was going. "Montreal", I replied. He pursed his lips, as Quebeckers do, in consternation, and said "That''s a pretty good camp...."
 
I can''t let this thread die - there are too many good stories out there...

Even the shittiest of holes can be OK if the conditions are right. There was one exploration camp in Newfoundland back in the flow-through funding days, called Cape Ray. It was a muddy, swampy, windy, foggy, treeless moonscape, but the cook was a genius and had a no-limits budget for food, as long as he didn''t waste. It was not uncommon to do your month there and never eat the same thing twice.

I guess it''s all a matter of perspective. One time I was ferrying a Hughes 500 from Pasadena NF to Montreal, and had landed in Sept-Iles for fuel. A gruff looking chap in a competitor''s A-Star was tanking up at the same time and asked me in French where I was going. "Montreal", I replied. He pursed his lips, as Quebeckers do, in consternation, and said "That''s a pretty good camp...."
 
I can''t let this thread die - there are too many good stories out there...

Even the shittiest of holes can be OK if the conditions are right. There was one exploration camp in Newfoundland back in the flow-through funding days, called Cape Ray. It was a muddy, swampy, windy, foggy, treeless moonscape, but the cook was a genius and had a no-limits budget for food, as long as he didn''t waste. It was not uncommon to do your month there and never eat the same thing twice.

I guess it''s all a matter of perspective. One time I was ferrying a Hughes 500 from Pasadena NF to Montreal, and had landed in Sept-Iles for fuel. A gruff looking chap in a competitor''s A-Star was tanking up at the same time and asked me in French where I was going. "Montreal", I replied. He pursed his lips, as Quebeckers do, in consternation, and said "That''s a pretty good camp...."
 
I can''t let this thread die - there are too many good stories out there...

Even the shittiest of holes can be OK if the conditions are right. There was one exploration camp in Newfoundland back in the flow-through funding days, called Cape Ray. It was a muddy, swampy, windy, foggy, treeless moonscape, but the cook was a genius and had a no-limits budget for food, as long as he didn''t waste. It was not uncommon to do your month there and never eat the same thing twice.

I guess it''s all a matter of perspective. One time I was ferrying a Hughes 500 from Pasadena NF to Montreal, and had landed in Sept-Iles for fuel. A gruff looking chap in a competitor''s A-Star was tanking up at the same time and asked me in French where I was going. "Montreal", I replied. He pursed his lips, as Quebeckers do, in consternation, and said "That''s a pretty good camp...."
 
Someone earlier mentioned Bobby Burns Lodge, what a camp, I had to spend the day there today, and gotta go back tomorrow, what a life. I hope you flatland boys are enjoying your boiled porkchops on the open fire out there in Nothern Alberta, I''ll be thinking of you when I''m flying the Photo shoot and the pretty Models in the Burns tomorrow
 
Someone earlier mentioned Bobby Burns Lodge, what a camp, I had to spend the day there today, and gotta go back tomorrow, what a life. I hope you flatland boys are enjoying your boiled porkchops on the open fire out there in Nothern Alberta, I''ll be thinking of you when I''m flying the Photo shoot and the pretty Models in the Burns tomorrow
 
Someone earlier mentioned Bobby Burns Lodge, what a camp, I had to spend the day there today, and gotta go back tomorrow, what a life. I hope you flatland boys are enjoying your boiled porkchops on the open fire out there in Nothern Alberta, I''ll be thinking of you when I''m flying the Photo shoot and the pretty Models in the Burns tomorrow
 
Someone earlier mentioned Bobby Burns Lodge, what a camp, I had to spend the day there today, and gotta go back tomorrow, what a life. I hope you flatland boys are enjoying your boiled porkchops on the open fire out there in Nothern Alberta, I''ll be thinking of you when I''m flying the Photo shoot and the pretty Models in the Burns tomorrow
 
Someone earlier mentioned Bobby Burns Lodge, what a camp, I had to spend the day there today, and gotta go back tomorrow, what a life. I hope you flatland boys are enjoying your boiled porkchops on the open fire out there in Nothern Alberta, I''ll be thinking of you when I''m flying the Photo shoot and the pretty Models in the Burns tomorrow
 
Someone earlier mentioned Bobby Burns Lodge, what a camp, I had to spend the day there today, and gotta go back tomorrow, what a life. I hope you flatland boys are enjoying your boiled porkchops on the open fire out there in Nothern Alberta, I''ll be thinking of you when I''m flying the Photo shoot and the pretty Models in the Burns tomorrow
 
Someone earlier mentioned Bobby Burns Lodge, what a camp, I had to spend the day there today, and gotta go back tomorrow, what a life. I hope you flatland boys are enjoying your boiled porkchops on the open fire out there in Nothern Alberta, I''ll be thinking of you when I''m flying the Photo shoot and the pretty Models in the Burns tomorrow
 
Someone earlier mentioned Bobby Burns Lodge, what a camp, I had to spend the day there today, and gotta go back tomorrow, what a life. I hope you flatland boys are enjoying your boiled porkchops on the open fire out there in Nothern Alberta, I''ll be thinking of you when I''m flying the Photo shoot and the pretty Models in the Burns tomorrow
 
Someone earlier mentioned Bobby Burns Lodge, what a camp, I had to spend the day there today, and gotta go back tomorrow, what a life. I hope you flatland boys are enjoying your boiled porkchops on the open fire out there in Nothern Alberta, I''ll be thinking of you when I''m flying the Photo shoot and the pretty Models in the Burns tomorrow
 
ShortRanger, funny story about Red-earth, you forgot to mention your near death experience with that S-55T, you haven''t been the same since. I always thought you got yerself sick and exhaust-burned so you could come home to that red-headded girlfriend. Look what tooubles she''s caused you since? how many kids are you up to now? 5-6?
 
ShortRanger, funny story about Red-earth, you forgot to mention your near death experience with that S-55T, you haven''t been the same since. I always thought you got yerself sick and exhaust-burned so you could come home to that red-headded girlfriend. Look what tooubles she''s caused you since? how many kids are you up to now? 5-6?
 
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