| Cannon Party | October 2005 |
| FRIDAY | October 14, 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| When Jefe arrived early in the evening, most of the vehicles were already present. Mark and Mike had arrived the day before.
Later on Friday night, Paco sang guitar while Kathy followed along on her 1747 Strad violin. | | SATURDAY | October 15, 2005
| A busy day! Cannon shooting, BBM, Bar-B-Q, Hike, Rockets, 4WD Trek to Burro Schmidt Tunnel.
|  Road waving in distance Saturday Morning
|         Kathy and Mike chit-chatting before a cannon shot  Mike loading cannonball BBM
|   Lighting Cassidy's new re-built BBM  Waiting for BBM to go up Saturday hike (MAP)
|          Late afternoon
|     John's smoker in action  Mike measuring his load  Eric and one of his creations  Homestead III before the big storm  Mike's cannon  Drinking a brew by the firing line Sunset Time
|   Paco aiming cannon with Kathy watching  Mara's camp      Cannon at end of the rainbow                 Jack-O-Lantern cut up for Halloween  Mike  Raymo  Kathy (smudge-stick)  Paco and ? looking for cannonballs   Firing line      Twilight Time
|  Firing line before sunset  Mike and his cannon at sunset  Kathy by fire at moonrise  Mark eating steak dinner at moonrise  Ashes from fire at moonrise  Fire at moonrise Saturday Night
|  Seppo, Raymo, Paco, Kathy  War of the Worlds snake eyeing Kathy's cooking Actually, a tent light sticking to a shovel  Kathy in her kitchen Burrow Schmidt Tunnel
|  Plaque at entrance  Mark and Paco at entrance  Kathy and Jef at entrance  Kathy in tunnel  Kathy further along in tunnel  Kathy at door to alcove in mid-tunnel  Kathy by spur to mid-tunnel alcove  Paco and Mark approaching the T in the tunnel  Warning sign signaling the T in the tunnel  Kathy doing limbo at exit above Koehn's Dry Lake view  Mark, Paco, and Kathy admiring view of valley under moonlight - moon is above. Photo does not register the dimly lit valley below, but views were spectacular!  Mark 'marking' the spot, while pointing out the scenery  On way back, Mark hefts a loose rail in tunnel  Mysterious ghost haunting tunnel!  Mark examining colourful rock ore in mid-tunnel  Kathy approaching tunnel entrance  Kathy just inside tunnel entrance  Paco, Kathy, and Mark just inside tunnel entrance SUNDAY | October 16, 2005
| Jefe and Kathy bugged out about 11:30 on this morning. There was some happenings, however.
|  Paco responding to nature calling  Kathy examining firework remnants of night before - Petri had arrived at 3 a.m., and woke her up to the spectacular display  Alexis and Lauren  Mark showing off his rock -- complete with backrest!  Mark's cannonball factory  Kathy at campsite while packing up Mapping Targets (TARGET MAP) (OVERVIEW MAP)
|  Musical target (70 yards)  100 yard target  175 yard target  225 yard target  375 yard, off center target  The target dance, or "The Dance of the 7 Layers of Clothes", at the 500 yard target | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
