Booshway
| Welcome to the fire Yeller Knife.
"Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad." Thomas Paine
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Graybeard
| Welcome to campfire! I live just north of you in Idaho, where they recently made hunting a constitutional right. I also know that there's a redezvous in Ogden Easter weekend, co-sponcered by the city of Ogden. I occasionally go to it, and I know of some other rendezvous in Idaho and Utah that may not be that far from you.
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| Posts: 226 | Location: Fort Hall, ID | Registered: 11 October 2009 |
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Greenhorn
| Thanks - appreciate your reply. Yes, the fort Buenaventura rendezvous is in Ogden; I was on the original crew that re-errected the fort on the same corners as the original. That fort burned down and a later crew rebuilt it. However, it's not really a rendezvous these days since the city and the county got into making money out of it, but rather a sort of fair with vendors selling jewelry, face painting, fry bread, cotton candy, global warming awareness, etc. There are areas set aside (alongside) for "mountain men" but I don't believe they wore cowboy boots, tenny runners, levis, and T-shirts in the early 1800s! I absolutely LOVE Idaho - wish I lived there. Maybe someday... |
| Posts: 17 | Location: Great Basin | Registered: 03 March 2013 |
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Graybeard
| I have to agree that redezvous have become more a tourist attraction these days than a true representation of what redezvous where for or like. And there are people who attend the whole event in modern clothing and in RV's, and people not interested in doing it right at all. And clubs are just interested in shoots, and aren't doing anything toward educating the public. We have a replica fort here and when they ask the local club for demonstrations they show up with displays of modern beadwork and a few guns, and just stand there. We need to get people together to form a club with rules somewhere between these shooting only clubs and the American Mountain Man Assoc. rules.
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| Posts: 226 | Location: Fort Hall, ID | Registered: 11 October 2009 |
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