Favorite pipe smoking story

[the85boro]

What is your favorite pipe smoking story? The place, the pipe, the blend, the memories?
Mine is last October at a friend's compound in the woods. We had a huge campfire and were watching the stars. We had some telescopes set up and food for 20 people (only 4 of us present). We smoked and laughed all night. I was smoking a Nording Ocaso 2003 with some Devil's Holiday and it was glorious.

 

[lawdawg]

My favorite pipe smoking memory took place almost exactly four years ago while fishing with one of my best friends on a large creek that runs through his granddad's property.
After nearly a decade of living in Chicago, I decided to move back to the rural Indiana area where I grew up. When I first accepted a new job offer, quit my big city job, and committed to moving back home, I was a little nervous that I might come to regret it, and concerned that maybe I had idealized the rural life too much while taking for granted all the amenities of the big city. The first week I spent back home put all those concerns to rest, and the best memory of that week was the day where we drove a side-by-side around the edges of a corn field, through the woods, and to the creek where we caught various species of sunfish and bass while drinking Budweiser as I smoked bowl after bowl of Carter Hall out of a Missouri Meerschaum corncob.

 

[the85boro]

That sounds like a good time to me. I also live in a rural town in Manchester TN and I wouldn't go anywhere else. I have traveled the world but home is home.

 

[alaskanpiper]

Moose Camp. A bowl of anything after a hard day's work quartering a moose in the field. Not another human for dozens of miles. Firing up with a cold beer, a good scotch, and a belly full of steak while staring at Denali national park in the distance with all the fall colors. Impossible to beat.
Moose

The lake we land on

View from our tent "porch"

 

[jaytex1969]

2nd pic: "Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat...." :nana:

 

[alaskanpiper]

"Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat....

Haha, we have run into a bear or two...it is not something we really enjoy... #obscurecartoonreferences

 

[the85boro]

bump

 

[cosmicfolklore]

All of my favorite stories, I have already posted on this forum... except the one where we had to decide what to do with a dead hooker in Dallas. But, I'm sure everyone has their own dead hooker story. ::

 

[mso489]

'Hope you got the rest of that moose in the freezer. That's months of fine dining. That would be a days work.

 

[alaskanpiper]

'Hope you got the rest of that moose in the freezer. That's months of fine dining. That would be a days work.

We always do somehow! And yeah, a +/- 1200lb bull usually ends up with 550-630lbs of meat. It's a chore to get it off the moose and packed to the atv, off the atv on to the rack, of the rack on to the atv again, off the atv and into the airplane, out of the airplane and onto another rack, off that rack and into the truck, out of the truck and into a friend's garage, back into the truck after processing, and then into the freezers. And every time it is well worth it....