Recent content by Clean Break

I haven't heard that since December, 1989.... it sends chills up my spine. Those Vulcans chewed UP that concrete cinder block barracks...and the guys on the other side of the walls. I'm glad you guys resurrected this thread. I don't post much on this S & W forum much any more. CW

Fishing for salmon: Family: Documenting major events in my life: Photography & Hiking: Jet Boating: Raising Dogs: Wild Chanterelle Mushroom picking and enjoying the wood stove: Traveling to interesting places around the world: Shooting...

Oops I misspelled Kalashnikov! Can a moderator fix my title please or someone tell me how? CB To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield. Tennyson

BBC News - AK-47 maker Kalashnikov gives rifles makeover Anyone shoot it yet? I wonder what the specs are compared with the Ak-47? CB To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield. Tennyson

Any day now a coyote will show. CB To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield. Tennyson

My dad, child of the Great Depression in Alabama, then a T-33 Jet pilot and Instructor and then C-130 pilot in the 50s - 60s: A "Steely Eyed Cold Warrior": And my own experience as a U.S. Army Infantryman in Operation Just Cause, Panama, 1989...

I admire the old wood ones and see a few on the Columbia River: This mahogany Egg Harbor belongs on the next dock over from my aluminum jet sled and is being restored: For lines and class, it is hard to beat this one... I'd love to have a "new" version to row around, this one from Ocean...

We went out looking for chanterelle mushrooms for the first time of the season. Found these and left them (Lobsters?): And then I found a large cauliflower mushroom aka sparassis crispa: Sliced it up and sauteed it in butter, sesame oil, olive oil, thyme from our deck, salt and...

Walked the 2 dogs and my wife yesterday around a three mile mountain loop of logging roads like we do, year round every coupla weeks, at the road end above our house. It's 2,000' + elevation in Sothwestern WA state. In living here 22 years, I've never seen so much fresh coyote and bear scat...

Keys, Gerber LST, Leatherman, 10 rds. of .303 British for my SMLE (coyote... any day now). CB

He's gone through at least four pairs of the light hiking/tennis shoes already and has more for us to mail to various stops en route . There are pics of them in the thread link I posted above . This afternoon my gals and I will boat 9 miles downstream on the Columbia River to Rainier, Oregon...

We recently went camping at Diamond Lake, Oregon to meet up with my son George (age 24) who is hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada (2,650 miles, that is like 101 consecutive Marathons... with a pack!). If you'd like to see a thorough thread about his PCT adventure, click here...

Mud Puddle Dog!

Bingo barked at some deer while we were fishing. They like riding in the jetsled: CB

But I can relate to this funny one: CB