Death in the Desert 2008

Yeah, baby...here's some pictures from our yearly trip to the Mojave Desert, complete with over 60 gallons of homebrew!

the campsite, you can see my new tacoma to the left...beer tent is in the middle:



my buddies landcruiser:



one of the climbing areas:



a nice warm fire for those cold nights:

Wow....Looks awesome...and someone should use that flame in a beer label.

More please....

That looks like an epic good time. I'm gonna have to do that sometime.

smoker action:



for cooking lotsa wonderful meats:



the kegs. we had so many, we used them as a table as we were switching them out!

now starts the fun. here's SOME of our firearms:

you guys shouldn't post so fast!



some fireworks action:



and now we start with the heads. a friend of ours is a hairdresser and she was gracious enough to bring a bag full of manikin heads

now...what on earth are we gonna do with these?

Smoked meat, Beer, Fire, Guns....gee, what more do you need?

Corn on the cob and beans maybe....

But I can't think of much more than that.

well, for starters:







and some more fun...

then the spiders attacked!!!!!





i've never seen so many spiders at the trip before. they were friggin everywhere...even crawled up my roomates leg and onto his ass before he saw it!

here's one last pic of me, trying to finish all the beer on the last night. unfortunately, i had to bring a few full kegs back. oh well



it was a rockin good time and passed far too quickly (i went up thursday and returned sunday)

already looking forward to next year!

:rockin: :rockin:

Revvy said:

Wow....Looks awesome...and someone should use that flame in a beer label.

More please....

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i can get you a better picture if you'd like

Revvy said:

Smoked meat, Beer, Fire, Guns....gee, what more do you need?

Corn on the cob and beans maybe....

But I can't think of much more than that.

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we had beans, but you know, corn on the cob is a damn fine idea. me, being an indigenous to iowa and all should have thought of that.

Looks like fun was had by all.

Okay, I'm coming to live in your backyard and making sure I'm in the back of your truck the next time you go. Toooooooooo fun.

Great pics. Reminds me of the trips that I've been on out there and out in Joshua Tree.

Wow, you seem to have a very nice camera. What camera did you use to take those pictures with?

High powered weapons, explosives, beer... what could go wrong?

indeed, beer, fire, weapons, explosives...in that order

nah, we're careful. everyone is safe and sober when shooting.

fireworks is another story. we have a dog that will attack any fireworks that go off, so we have to keep her locked up. on time she ran over some high-powered stuff and knocked it over, then proceded to charge it with her mouth open as it shot into her face. scared me, i thought she was REALLY hurt. but she seemed just fine after we got her away from the stuff. crazy spaniel...that was two years ago.

Did I hear climbing. Back in my younger days I used to climb at Josuha Tree witha couple of Marine Corp buddies. Great times.

Nice firearms too.

All around looks like a great weekend.

If alcohol and firearms weren't meant to be together, they wouldn't be part of a federal department name.

Nice pics! Especially when it's 40* here and I'm working. How big were those spiders?

DeathBrewer said:

then the spiders attacked!!!!!

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And that's when I left!

Looks like a great trip man

Thats a nice cult, I mean group of friends you have there.

All of the things that redneck disaster videos are made of with the exception of the electrical connections in a swimming pool. Looks like fun, but I'd have to pass on the fricken spiders.

FireBrewer said:

If alcohol and firearms weren't meant to be together, they wouldn't be part of a federal department name.

Nice pics! Especially when it's 40* here and I'm working. How big were those spiders?

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pretty damn big...there was a lovely assortment of them...all the kind that can flick hair at your face, so we kept our distance.

my roommate had one crawl up his leg and he had to brush it off with a .44

it wasn't until after we noticed they were crawling around everywhere that i realized my tent had been open all day. i gave that a pretty thorough check before i laid down again :cross:

no one was drunk, but there were a few new people there that didn't really know how to handle firearms. every time we go, we're going to have everyone read the manual. it may seem like common sense to most of us, but it's always good to go over gun safety.

wildwest450 said:

Thats a nice cult, I mean group of friends you have there.

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no cult...that would imply that we have religious intent

McKBrew said:

All of the things that redneck disaster videos are made of with the exception of the electrical connections in a swimming pool. Looks like fun, but I'd have to pass on the fricken spiders.

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you wheenies! spiders are cool! there were also lotsa bees cuz someone left a soda open, so i played beekeeper and carried the soda away from camp.

snakes are the only animal that i'm tense around.

FireBrewer said:

If alcohol and firearms weren't meant to be together, they wouldn't be part of a federal department name.

Nice pics! Especially when it's 40* here and I'm working. How big were those spiders?

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ATF - Alcohol Tobacco Firearms.... Who's bringing the chips?!!

DeathBrewer said:

you wheenies! spiders are cool!
snakes are the only animal that i'm tense around.

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Sorry, anything with more legs than my dog gets danced upon until it's unrecognizable. Snakes on the other hand, don't bother me a bit.

DeathBrewer said:

no one was drunk, but there were a few new people there that didn't really know how to handle firearms. every time we go, we're going to have everyone read the manual. it may seem like common sense to most of us, but it's always good to go over gun safety.

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Haha I lent my friend my .45 once and he ended up shooting the first shot at the target and the rest in the air.... that was right after I was explaining target acquisition with clay pigeons and he turned around waving a loaded shotgun everywhere!

its such a simple thing its amazing how people dont get it.
dont aim at anything you dont want to kill,
dont have your finger on the trigger unless you intend to fire,
and always empty a gun and leave it open before setting it down!

here is one of the madmen...he said i could post this picture, cuz it's so friggin made of awesome

jawsome!

hey! you don't brew beer!

You have a 30 year old female under your bed, DeathBrewer?! I usually keep mine in the basement...

it's actually a little creepier than that...

what? why's it creepy?

the beard kinda makes it creepy. i check under my bed every night for hairy monsters.