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Camping trips

Contents
  1. 1 The founding message
  2. 2 The Detroit Lake trip (August 28-30, 2020)
  3. 3 Pregnant wives
  4. 4 The Matt O. removal
  5. 5 Subsequent trips
  6. 6 See also

The chat was founded by [[Kyle Derrick]] on **2020-07-07** for the explicit purpose of coordinating camping trips, and the resulting **2020-08-28 Detroit Lake** trip remains the chat's foundational shared experience. References to camping continue through 2025, with no fewer than four distinct multi-night trips documented.

Camping trips

The chat was founded by Kyle Derrick on 2020-07-07 for the explicit purpose of coordinating camping trips, and the resulting 2020-08-28 Detroit Lake trip remains the chat's foundational shared experience. References to camping continue through 2025, with no fewer than four distinct multi-night trips documented.

Camping trips are, in a strict sense, the chat's reason for existing. The corpus's very first message — Kyle Derrick, 2020-07-07 18:06 UTC — is a camping proposal, and the chat's earliest formal name (Rugged Outdoorsmen, 2020-08-13) was set in honor of the inaugural trip. References to camping appear in 31 messages spanning 2020-07-07 → 2025-05-02, distributed across all six chat members who participated in the early years.

The founding message

"Any of you interested in trying to go camping 7/24? I am thinking that spot we just went to on MR good" — Kyle Derrick, 2020-07-07

This is the chat's first message of any kind. It establishes:

  1. The chat's purpose (camping coordination);
  2. The chat's stable convention of typing MR for Mt. (preserved verbatim by Kyle Derrick in subsequent years);
  3. The pre-existing fact that the founding cohort had just been camping together — i.e., the chat is, from message one, an instrument for repeating an existing tradition rather than starting a new one.

The Detroit Lake trip (August 28-30, 2020)

The 2020-07-24 trip was, per the corpus, deferred. Kyle Derrick reschedules on 2020-07-30:

"Trying to setup camping again for my bday. Thinking near Detroit lake this time. 8/28-8/30. Interests?" — Kyle Derrick, 2020-07-30

Detroit Lake is in the Cascades east of Salem, Oregon. The trip was confirmed and executed; it is the chat's foundational shared experience. Three distinct subsequent quotations have established it as a kind of constitutional moment:

  • 2020-08-26 — Matt: "This is no longer a camping trip we are going to gulag Dan" — the era's most-quoted single line.
  • 2022-09-21 — Daniel Miller: "The shit you take after rays bachelor party, which was mostly beer and pizza, it made every other shit feel like practice" — citing the camping trip's adjacent gastrointestinal discourse two years later.
  • 2022-11-08 — Kyle Derrick: "That reminds of when we were camping and that women showed her pussy in response to Evan showing his penis" — the trip's most-cited specific moment.
  • 2020-12-08 — Kyle Derrick: "Well I know some of you dudes were taking about having anal fissures when we were camping" — citing the trip's medical-symptomatology discussion four months after the fact.

Pregnant wives

The trip's most-quoted line is by Matt on 2020-08-12, two weeks pre-trip:

"Apparently our pregnant wives liked us camping better" — Matt, 2020-08-12

Jen (Matt's wife) was carrying Dame and Alice (Daniel's wife) was carrying Bruce at the time. The line is preserved as the encyclopedia's preferred summary of the chat's August 2020 demographic moment and as the implicit thesis of the chat's first six weeks: camping is, in the chat's earliest formulation, a relief from the non-camping world.

The Matt O. removal

The August 2020 trip's pre-departure logistical thread produced the only documented member removal in the chat's six-year history. Kyle Derrick posts on 2020-08-21:

"We all still in except Matt O?" — Kyle Derrick, 2020-08-21

Followed within hours by:

"Matt o, I am gonna drop you from this convo so as not to bother you with unneeded texts. If you can swing coming hit me up." — Kyle Derrick, 2020-08-21

See Matt O. for the full removal record. The encyclopedia notes that no member has been removed in the six years since.

Subsequent trips

The corpus documents at least three further camping trips after Detroit Lake 2020:

  • 2022-08 — referenced obliquely in messages about "the spot near MR Hood".
  • 2023-06-26 — Daniel Miller reports being unavailable for hoen because "I'm out, gonna be camping".
  • 2024-02-02 — Matt: "For camping!" — the corpus's shortest documented in-chat camping confirmation.
  • 2025-05-02 — Evan Bbbender: "Recreating the camping experience" — the latest reference, suggesting the foundational 2020 trip remains a shared touchstone.

The encyclopedia notes that no chat-internal scoreboard exists for camping trips, despite the foundational role of the tradition; like the long-requested Hoen Lunch scoreboard, it remains a project rather than a delivered artifact.

See also

See also