morning campfire smoke

Below is a photo taken at the Pinnacle Mt rondy west of Little Rock Saturday. The perfect autumn morning is clouded by early morning smoke from breakfast campfires. This is a nice rondy held every mid-October. The peaks caused the early French hunters to name the area "mamelle" which was corrupted to the present Maumelle. The Arkansas River lies behind the peak in the background. It is a combo of "white" camps, Native American camps & pow-wow dancing, and in the back, modern vendors. The more PC traders row is usually very good, and I found a very nice forged tomahawk this trip...

 

[laffingman67]

Beautiful Picture, Mike. I love the early morning at rondy befor all the flatlanders come in. :hatsoff:

 

Yep! Me too. That is a beautiful sight for a rondevous.

 

Yeah, one thing I like about it is that you have to walk through a woods along a footpath to get to the site--the first thing you see when you exit the woods is that picture...the meadow below Pinnacle Peak. Along the path the first person I met was a longhunter type and his pet wolf...a beautiful animal. There are always plenty of good camps and folks at this event...below is killsmany, his first Pinnacle event, but obviously he is an experienced reenactor:

 

[hawkeye1755]

Thanks for the pics Mike.Looks like a place to be.:thumbsup:
How many people were at the event?Is the normal camp or one of the smaller or bigger one?
:hatsoff:

 

I don't have a count for this year but it seemed as big as the last one which had 94 camps [and 9000 tourists]. This is not a typical rendezvous in many ways, but is a good educational and fun event close to metropolitan Little Rock. The area is a state park and has preserved alot of nature for being so close to civilization. It is also a great geologic park and I used to take field trips there for the rocks...The peaks are huge masses of bedded sandstone that are encased in sheared shale and are thought to be the remnants of submarine channels cut into the ancient slope of the southern midcontinent in the Carboniferous--now thrust up into a chain of mountains--a sort of U.S. Alps in ancient days...

 

[Mulebrain]

I camp a bunch with the Boy Scouts, but this sure looks like a great departure, and a link to the past!

I sure would like to try it, just I don't think I can store any more gear :grin: