New Pet

Finally, the new mascot for the cabin showed up courtesy of Porter's and Mr. Rahlves. It's a Gnu, pronounced "new." The story goes something like this. Darren's pop was a big time game hunter in Africa for a bunch of years. He's got this monstrosity of a house behind his house that has every type of animal in there. Stuffed of course. Lions, tigers, elephants, hippo's, black rhino's, alligators, wild dogs, bears, every antlered animal that roamed the plains, oxen...you name it, he's got it. Shit, there's a freaking 8 foot giraffe by mounted from the shoulders up at the front door.
Well when we got the "Stabbin Cabin" up and running at Stevens this year, I wanted to throw like a moose or some cabiny shit up there for conversation. Then thought about the time I saw all this stuff in Darren and Doozers house and asked him for something. Anything, shit I would of taken a deer that he hit with his truck if it was stuffed. This February I'm there and he walks me back to the dead animal house and shows me 4 Gnu heads on the wall and sez "this is what I'm thinking for your cabin." His dad shot 3 of them that were huge and he shot this one that was medium size when he was a little guy. I chose that one. Now the cabin has a Gnu head from America's greatest ski downhiller that ever hit the slopes. Pretty good story.