This Should Be Interesting...

[Bushav8er]

Based on the "What Do You Bring" thread, I though it may make good reading to make a list of...

Whats the strangest Thing You've Seen People Bring to Camp

Pilots for work or customers for the week, doesn't matter. I'll start -

- water pump, a big honking gas one
- satellite dish/receiver, tv and a generator (it was play offs, they never did find the signal)
- a pick-up and larger trailer for 4 guys fishing for a week.

(memory sucks, I'm sure I've seen better ones then that)

[Liquid Charlie]

I can remember a couple having 3000 lbs of gear for 3 days camping -- oh ya -- they did have a kitchen sink -- --

[stef]

A wild cat stuffed in a duffle bag...to clean the mice out of camp.

[bornagain1340]

3 people going to an outpost cabin for 3 days that had to be flown in with the piston otter because of all their gear...and they still had to leave stuff behind!
Old guys bringing generators to power their breathing machines for when they were asleep (kinda spooky).
Satellite dishes and DVD players but no generator
My memory is also bad...I'm sure there's much that I just shook my head and looked the other way.

[fortis risk]

A lear 35 leaving Calgary loaded with duck decoys and a stuffed moose head for a duck hunting trip in Manitoba. There was no room on the aircraft for pax so a second jet carried them.

[Rowdy]

I had one guy bring his entire wireless setup.. probably 200lbs of radio gear.

Another trip for 4 guys for a week brought 900lbs of booze, a few CASES of wine a couple cases of scotch, countless cases of beer and a few random bottles of fine liqeurs... They drank all but one case of beer! apparently it wasnt to be touched as it was the 'pilots tip'

I flew in an ice cream cake for one guys 40th birthday

One guy brought a water pump and 50ft of forestry fire hose and a nozle, I guess the last trip he'd been on mid season.. a fire had threatened the outhouse. haha

hmm.. plenty of other oddities, I'll see what else comes to mind. Killing time in singapore right now.

[Bushav8er]

Another trip for 4 guys for a week brought 900lbs of booze, a few CASES of wine a couple cases of scotch, countless cases of beer and a few random bottles of fine liqeurs... They drank all but one case of beer! apparently it wasnt to be touched as it was the 'pilots tip'

I recall one. A group of 6 had the Otter booked for themselves and gear. When they arrived they had so much booze that a second Otter was required just for it! Although a DHC2 was available it was an actual Otter load. They drank all of it.

[sarg]

X country skis for their mid July fishing trip in "Northern" Canada. (really NW Ont. temp. at the time was high 20's)

[Liquid Charlie]

Steamer Trunk full of dirt for a school teacher in KAS

[CFMartin]

A complete Beaver load of logs into the wood.
The gentleman owning the camp preferred the smell of burning maple to pine and birch in the fireplace.


A Cessna 185 flight for a chinese restaurant meal and jelly beans. Talk about "roughing it".


A Cessna 185 load of grass seeds: the guy had an acre of land on the side of the lake, and would go to his camp every week to mow the lawn afterward.


A 100-mile Beaver trip for an ice cream scoop. Makes prettier mashed potatoes servings.


A guy going in to the same lake year after year on a fishing trip WITHOUT A ROD... and getting out with about 200 pounds of rocks to bring back to the States. Geologists are a different breed.


Does anybody else hate these Turkey deepfriers that end up getting your hands alll greasy when they hand them to you?

[FastFlyBy]

A home-made (heavy) toilet.

[Liquid Charlie]

Should extend this to external loads --

[roger.roger]

Flowers, inculding a potted tree into the bush

[Mr. North]

When I was a dockhand there was an Otter overload for a group of eight guys. They had two milk crates staked with the usual porno... or so we thought. The first couple of layers were the usual Playboys and Hustler, everything else underneath was dirty choda-licking gay porn!!!!! There was also an unusual amount of wine?? WTF were they doing out there?!!



On another occasion I was helping the CP load his B18, and after loading an endless amount of bottled water the CP leaned over to the leader of the group and said..
"With all the 'effing water you guys are taking in, makes me wonder if you brought along your own sand when you invaded Iraq!!" -This being at the height of the war, their faces were priceless!!!

[Cat Driver]

The first couple of layers were the usual Playboys and Hustler, everything else underneath was dirty choda-licking gay porn!!!!! There was also an unusual amount of wine?? WTF were they doing out there?!!

CBC?

[beaverbob]

A seadoo tied to the left float of a beaver.

A complete off highway truck rear end with axles and brake drums in an Islander

A goat in a C185 for a logging camp where a young child could not drink cow's milk

A full beaver load of supplies for two people for only two days fishing on the west coast including lots of tubs of ice to keep the potential fish cold.


A cook for a logging camp who was also a hooker in Quesnel: ---- She knew how to please a logging camp (not exactly supplies, but worth mentioning anyway.)

BB

[200hr Wonder]

A cook for a logging camp who was also a hooker in Quesnel: ---- She knew how to please a logging camp (not exactly supplies, but worth mentioning anyway.)

BB

I am sure there are some loggers that would argue that point, maybe even Cat!

[A2G]

... who was also a hooker in Quesnel:
BB

How do you know?

[Bushav8er]

But could she cook??

[beaverbob]

Actually, she was a great cook. She only lasted for three days though and the boss had to let her go. Multi Talented you might say.
Have you ever been propositioned whilst flying a C-185?
BB

[twinotter3H]

Generators, DVD and satellites are common enough in some Cree camps.

The other day i was loading up and said something along the lines of, "we'll take those tent poles now", referring to a bunch of aluminum poles all wrapped together. I was then corrected and told that it was a full size trampoline! I couldn't believe they had a trampoline in the bush with them.

[KT111]

Have you ever been propositioned whilst flying a C-185?
BB

Not exactly but a good friend of mine had his girlfriend go down on him in the back of my C172 during a x-country... I had to politely ask him to remove his headset.

[CLguy]

Have you ever been propositioned whilst flying a C-185?

Yep!! It just took a little longer to get to the lodge!!!

[Rudy]

.1?

[black hole]

three blow up women and a compressor.

BH