bushy's HI hell adventure

[bushy]

I've never felt so worn out in my life Walking 10 Km per day over this kind of terrain is brutal on the feet and cankles. Nothing is flat and everything rolls under-foot. My ankles were black and blue for the first two weeks and my boots were getting shredded. Blisters are part of everyday life. I bought a pair of $185 Vasque boots and another 40 bucks on sock liners and cushion socks. They sure have helped with the foot pain, but will not last month before I tear them up. We lost several people the first week or two to falls and blisters. The young kids have no idea how tough this chit is on us fat old fawkers, but they're whining too. Couple of pics here http://s164.photobucket.com/albums/u23/Brushcrasher/

 

[bushy]

This bouldery terrain is typical of the area. The $hit is like glass and cuts everything that touches it. The gal on the left is a colleague of mine, but couldn't cut it and ended up turtled on the lava and needed help to get back upright. Her knees and ankles were a bloody mess after a week and I sent her home. The flak jackets are more like straight jackets and make it hard to bend your torso. Also weight about 20 pounds with helmet.

 

[tudizzle]

dang thats crazy how the boots are worn down!

Not your typical Hawiian vacation

 

[bushy]

Alright, time to go get some dinner! One more day off so give a shout. 970-222-6405. I'm planning on spending a week or so beyond the 12th. The rent is paid, so I don't see any point in wasting it! Jump a plane and come on over

 

[skibreeze]

Dude, that would be so tempting! Too bad I need to work this month and then I have Nov and Dec off basically. That looks like you should be in good shape for sledding.

 

[bdubs]

dude, where are all the dirty old man pictures from the beach??




holla when you get back

 

[bushy]

Flying out tomorrow....will have some good beach pics for ya.

 

[bushy]

Brett Favre wouldn't last a week on the A'A' with his wimpy cankles!

 

[bushy]

Interesting the raw tuna directly below the raw tuna. Poke they call it. Tasty chit

 

[bushy]

Jason's girl couldn't haul her own board out. hmmm

 

[bushy]

Another showoff... She was posing out front for a good five minutes! all of 16 i'm sure..

 

[bdubs]

Looks rough. Now let's hear about all the shenanigans that went on

 

[bushy]

Had to kick a bunch of potential freeloaders out. Once they heard the places were paid up for the month, they were all planning on vacationing on CSU's dime.

WRONG! CSU had a similar fiasco a few years ago with some dirt bag prof's.

Be damned if my name is associated with some dirtbaggery.

I tossed them all to the curb and a few were pretty busted up about it.

Thieven whooores and johns, alll of em. lol

employees are chit bags out to suck your teet as long as they kin.

sad we can't all just get along.....but no, their azz is done!

had a few of the wenches really try to get shiny prize at the end.

I dumped em like a bag of rancid garbage. Sorry, no sexual harassment for ya here! lol

 

[bushy]

Looks rough. Now let's hear about all the shenanigans that went on

Ha ha, it was a freakshow, as usual...but I'm used to it...

 

[bushy]

My motley crew

 

[bdubs]

Dude you had hulk hogan and Shaun white workin for ya?

 

[bushy]

Ya got the sociopath with some D ta'ta's on my right. Nuttier than walnut tree though. The insanely positive one....On the left was a nice little japanese gal. I doubt she'll show up on my door. nice rack! Two to the right was Dawn...a local girl with guns, and a an appetite to match. A mother of 4 with one in the marines! She forked my hand just behnind and to the right. Actually brought up on Sexual harassment charges of a male co-worker....as I understand it...

 

[bushy]

Dude you had hulk hogan and Shaun white workin for ya?

lol, yeah 6'9" Dave looked like that little runt. Hulk was in charge of my other crew (we split into 2). With so many people it's tough for me to "
Boss" them all so I tend to kick back and just get involved with the big fires. Everybody pretty much knew what was expected of them so it's not like they needed much supervision.

 

[bushy]

had a little party on Hono'li'i' beach near Hilo after the work wrapped up. Couple of my locals surfed.

 

[bushy]

The place damn near bested me, but after 3 weeks I bucked up

The terrain was mostly that bouldery A'A' lava chit. Most of it was spit out of the volcanoe within the last 500 to 1000 years so it was very sharp and rugged. It's hard to describe the hazard of this terrain, but suffice to say that a pair of top end Vasque boots were shredded within a month on this terrain.

this was around week two on these boots. Now they have not indication of tread on the sole and are worn down to an 1/8" of rubber. Just ****in destroyed!