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Oh yeah man these longer trips can make or break a friendship for sure! I don’t ever backpack either anyone I don’t know well and trust to pull their own weight. Last thing I want is to have to bury a body in the backcountry.

I will say that the enjoyment I get from these trips is different from that of a hunting or fishing trip because the point is just being there together and little more rather than filling tags or coolers. For me it turns the entire trip into the relaxing and leisurely time hunting and fishing allow at sunrise and over campfires.

Keeps me in shape for hunting & fishing too...

The comment made earlier by someone about how important regular guy time is resonates with me. I go out for day hikes, breakfasts, dinners, fishing evenings, local hunts, group chore times, etc with guys at least 5-10x/month. I keep a core group go a few guys real close by and make clear to them that if I’m doing something stupid they have the responsibility to tell em so even if it pisses me off.

I need friends who want better for me than I am willing to settle for. This is something I’ve pounded into my kids too. I can’t imagine the errors I’d have maintained if I hadn’t had guys around who’d set me straight.

Plenty of "Man Trips" on the planet during the 2nd chapter of my life.
3rd and final chapter now.

Slumlord, my kid brother from another mother.
We do alot of stuff together.
Sometimes 3 or 4 weeks can go by and we dont do things.
Sometimes we have had some bad incidents in our friendship breaking down for months to a little over a year.
Schit that would 100% destroy a friendship for others.
But we always gravitate back to each other, let the schit be water under the bridge and our friendship gains from it actually.
Cause I think neither of us can really find a freind that either of us trust or up to the standards we both have.
It's Hard to explain....

We do alot of favors for each other.
Not out of obligation, but outta the sense of helping each other.
Only a phone call away.

I'm a hard person to make friends with.
Even harder person to get to bleed out schitt in my noggin.
Slumlord has heard things I have done.
Things I wont tell anyone else.
The man has seen me cry....
That says something to me.


Cold hard to the point discussion about anything between me and him.

It's what real friends do.

Not this outer orbit of acquaintance stuff some call friends.

Yes Sir CaribouJack, another damn bonus of us being North of the grass huh? plus, the talent, professionalism and patriotism, those old Guys take with them when they leave this spinning rock, only to be replaced by spoiled, entitled obese little land walruses on the lower end, it aint going to gin out in the country's favor Sir, only a matter of time before this big bitch implodes.

I used to hang with a group of fellows that enjoyed these 'man trips'. I rarely go anymore, because it's turned into, or perhaps always was, just an excuse to get stinking drunk. I got tired of being the only sober fellow there. The one that always drove the boat back home, fixed the meals or tended the fire. I like a drink as much as the next fellow, but just not as much of it at a sitting.

I don't understand excluding people from a guest list for a social event based solely on biological sex rather than lack of commonality of interest in the object of the social event.

Plenty of "Man Trips" on the planet during the 2nd chapter of my life.
3rd and final chapter now.

Slumlord, my kid brother from another mother.
We do alot of stuff together.
Sometimes 3 or 4 weeks can go by and we dont do things.
Sometimes we have had some bad incidents in our friendship breaking down for months to a little over a year.
Schit that would 100% destroy a friendship for others.
But we always gravitate back to each other, let the schit be water under the bridge and our friendship gains from it actually.
Cause I think neither of us can really find a freind that either of us trust or up to the standards we both have.
It's Hard to explain....

We do alot of favors for each other.
Not out of obligation, but outta the sense of helping each other.
Only a phone call away.

I'm a hard person to make friends with.
Even harder person to get to bleed out schitt in my noggin.
Slumlord has heard things I have done.
Things I wont tell anyone else.
The man has seen me cry....
That says something to me.


Cold hard to the point discussion about anything between me and him.

It's what real friends do.

Not this outer orbit of acquaintance stuff some call friends.

Sounds like true friendship^^^^^^^
Yeah, I never wept when my Dad and Brother passed away, but cried my eyes out when my life long friend died. I think it was because some have to be your friend because of a blood relationship, nobody forced the friendship with my buddy, we chose to be friends.

Other than going hunting or fishing, I've never just took off and did anything with the guys. (Not that I want to do much else.) The Movie "Bachelor Party" comes to mind.

Some of my customers are on a "boy's night out" kinda deal and it makes me think.

I don't understand excluding people from a guest list for a social event based solely on biological sex rather than lack of commonality of interest in the object of the social event.

Simple.

Because when there is a bleeder(s) involved, sooner or later there is going to be drama.

It's inevitable.

Other than going hunting or fishing, I've never just took off and did anything with the guys. (Not that I want to do much else.) The Movie "Bachelor Party" comes to mind.

Some of my customers are on a "boy's night out" kinda deal and it makes me think.

Other than going hunting or fishing, I've never just took off and did anything with the guys. (Not that I want to do much else.) The Movie "Bachelor Party" comes to mind.

Some of my customers are on a "boy's night out" kinda deal and it makes me think.