Rendezvous calling all mountain men!

Fellas. pardon me fer chimin' in but I have a story too! the group I helped to found(The Wills Mtn Renegades)were doing what I fondly call "color" for an International Whitewater race event and I was there with my set-up dressed "period" doing the living history for all the locals and tourists; got up this one morning and fried out a ration of bacon over the fire and had just hunkered down lifting a piece to my mouth when I looked straight in front of me and here is this oriental group of tourists complete with video cameras and one of their members is hunkered down panning on that bite going into my mouth! Somewhere in Japan is a tape of my tonsils and I would love the translation that goes with it! I used to throw a pretty mean 'hawk and if I heard "Boy am I glad I'm not married to her; you think skillets is bad!" once then I have heard it a hunnert times...was pretty funny to watch grown men flinch..heheheh Oh, lordy the memories! Had a friend used to love putting on a show with, he had a bunch of hawks and we used to take turns placing all of em in the butt without takeing any out..chipped a few blades and splintered a few handles but for the most part was awesome the crowd reaction when placed the last one clean from an underhand throw....YUP; me a skinner don't need no fire nor jug to spin tales!

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That's a good'en, gonna pass that one along to my daughter, she will appreciate that story.
We had our share of japanese tourists also, lots of T.V. crews for some reason?

We were at rendezvous at Prairie du Chien, WI, at the park, next to the Villa Louis mansion. pretty big, about 700 lodges, held on Fathers Day every year.
This is right on the banks of the Mississippi river, so we were down in the river (hot) with our skins on, sorta scrubbing so of the dirt off the skins with sand, when one of the japanese T.V. crews started filming.
So, of course one of the shinners started telling the crew that we came down here once a year, to wash-up, stock up, have a shinning time, then go back up to the mountains for the rest of the year.
So, Bee, your not the only one on japanese T.V.

Hear tell of a contract one of the traders at rendezvous, for 300 tanned elk hides supposed to go to Japan to build a 30 ft tipi for some exhibit, can't say it's true.............