Grandfather Mt Games 2008

**Kiltedmusiclover** · 15th July 08, 12:23 PM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

You said a mouthfull, pardner.

Best

AA

As some of my red neck friends would say.

Give it a whirl now.

See my prior post for some video of the weekend.

**Jamais Arriere** · 15th July 08, 03:00 PM

Here's a few of mine

Great to be back on the mountain

This is my son right before he broke his foot in the wrestling clinic

Me making chili for Mcvillage pot luck

Fairys even

A Douglass!, A Douglass!

Me piping The Point

**Drillagent** · 15th July 08, 04:05 PM

Ok, here are some of my pics.
My son and I in front of the mountain

Campsite jam session.

My friend from work, MSG Jones and I at the heavy athletic clinic.

Massed bands

**turpin** · 15th July 08, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by Jamais Arriere

Here's a few of mine

Me making chili for Mcvillage pot luck

That was your chili? Man, it was really tasty!!

Here are a few of my own. Long on the camping experience and short on the activity on the Meadow.

Not the best pic, but you get the idea. Highlands.

Thousands and thousands.

a young laddie piping at the Gordpn tent

Mushrooms growing on a tree next to the portapotties

My son James at the Gordon USA Annual General Meeting

Haley conquering a rrrreally big rock next to our tent

**turpin** · 15th July 08, 04:59 PM

Barleyjuice playoing in Grove 2, Jimmy Carbomb at the right side (x-marker). What a great sound, and lots of fun.

Gathered round the campfire

Kids carving designs in bamboo for drinking mugs. Cure the wood in a mix of rum and coke

The "trenchers" being set up for the Burns Dinner in MacVillage at the campground.

The trenchers groaning with food. It's amazing what folks can cook after a week of camping. We even had Thai vegetables.

OK, there was't a lot of haggis, but no one went hungry, trust me

Just completing the Bard's immortal poem

**turpin** · 15th July 08, 05:00 PM

Three happy campers. On the left is the founder of the Bat Cave School of Piping in Ashville. And a wonderfule man

Some views of the dinner from a different perspective. does it start to seem as though GMHG isn't all about the actual games? At least for me. These are fine, fine folks.

The mountain laurel (rhododendron) were in bloom

**turpin** · 15th July 08, 05:01 PM

Good Scottish weather. We set up in the rain on Tuesday. It rained on Wed, and thurs. Friday and saturday were good. Sunday started raining at about 3, then poured from about 9 pm on. Monday was clear and cold.

Haley hanging with friends she met last year. Three generations of this family have camped on this campsite for 35 years. Grandpa's ashes are scattered on the site.

Piping the campsite. Someone is piping in the grounds from morning till curfew.

Some of the "Tarpology" practiced here is just amazing

Son James at Casa Turpin. I spread 5 bales of straw to keep the site clean.

I'd love to show pix of the drum circle saturday nite on the McRowdy side of the campgrounds - It went from just after the marshmallow war (a really neat thing itself - Family Side Pipes and Drums lead an invasion of McRowdy armed with marshmallows and are met by a hail of return fire) - until 1:30 a.m. REALLY tribal. And the belly dancers, while not, strictly speaking, a Scottish tradition, would have been accepted at any self-respecting Scot's fire. But I can't drum and shoot pix at the same time and anyway, you really have to be there. Just getting in the zone of the beat and following wherever it takes you. A couple of the drummers from Albannach joined in as well. Really cool.

The games were good too. But you get the idea what I enjoy most at Grandfather. Rain and all, I'll take it over a good day at the office.