2008 CUTTIE-THON!
- This topic has 13 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated Aug 12, 2008 at 7:58 pm by
.
-
Posts
-
What started as a couple of conversations between one of the fellows on the Fiberglass Flyrodders board grew into a goal to get back to the gym and prepare for the 2008 Cuttie-Thon on the Grey’s River near Afton, Wyoming. This fly fishing marathon has been going on since 2005 and has been organized by Zac Sexton to raise money for the Children’s Diabetes Foundation, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and the Yellowstone Park Foundation.
The Cuttie-Thon will start on August 9th at 05:00 a.m. and participants will fish up river for part or all of nearly 27 miles of the Grey’s River. The Cuttie-Thon will take an estimated 30 hours to complete start to finish. It is our intention to complete the entire Cuttie-Thon and one of only a couple of teams taking on the whole course. Some teams will do the Cuttie-Thon as a relay or only fish portions of the river.
Zac’s website for the Cuttie-Thon:
I feel bad that it has taken me a couple of days to update this but I spoke with Matt Cassel of Cliff Outdoors this week and he was so excited about the event that he is taking care of our fly box and floatant needs.
I finally had a chance this week to look through the box that Petzl sent while I was gone to Michigan. Petzl really did us right and sent both a MYO XP and a MYO XP BELT models. I didn’t notice that they had sent two different models until I had the packaging open to the XP model taken apart and batteries in the light.
MYO XP
MYO XP BELT
These are a serious headlamp and I know that they will be able to do the work for the night section of the Cuttie-Thon.
Hard to tell in this photo…but these lights can get BRIGHT!These lamps are extremely well designed and have three different brightness settings, flash setting, a boost setting which gives you 150 lumens, and then a front cover over the lamp that will either give you a flood beam or a spot beam.
Battery life is also impressive. LED lights have revolutionized light sources. The headlamp has the following burn times on a single set of batteries:
Economic – 180 Hours
Optimum – 100 Hours
Maximum – 80 HoursI’ll be carrying an extra set of AA batteries but it hardly looks like I need to.
I am pleased to announce that the Cuttie-thon 2008 now has it’s own coffee. It is roasted by Salmon Fly Coffee Roasters, in Butte, Montana. Salmon Fly is a small fledgling coffee company owned by a husband and wife team who jumped at the chance to help with the Cuttie-thon.
The coffee is a blend of fresh beans which are roasted, blended and packaged in Butte. I have sampled the coffee and for those of you who like a dark French Roast, I think it will be a big hit. As with many fundraising efforts, over 50 % of the proceeds will go to the cause. The cost of the coffee is $15.00 plus shipping. If anyone is interested in supporting a great cause by drinking a splended cup of coffee, please send me a PM and I will get you the order information.
Well, since my partner for the event was already in Jackson Hole today for work he stopped by Cloudveil to follow up on a couple of phone calls and they decided to sponsor our team for the Cuttie-Thon! Cloudveil committed to provide two pairs of 8X Pro Waders and two pairs of the 8X Stealth Boot. This really is quite a donation to our team and it is certainly appreciated.
So.. How did the cuttie-thon go? Hope everything was good! There was some pretty vicious weather Friday and Saturday night. I looked for you guys while fishing, but never crossed anyone’s path. Or so I thought .. A sheriff from Afton dropped by my camp on Sunday looking for “a girl who had not checked in @ home”. He also told us that a woman with a inner tube that I had said hello to earlier in the day was with you guys. I ran into her pretty high up on the river (44 miles or so) and heading down river Sunday afternoon.
Any pics?
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.