SEQUIM — The Green River Mountain Men will host its annual rendezvous at the Peninsula Long Rifle Association’s property off Slab Camp Road this Labor Day weekend.
This re-enactment of the annual fur trappers’ gatherings of the early 1800s will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Admission is free to just come and look around, though donations will be accepted.
A $20 fee will be charged to shooters 13 and older.
Follow the signs
Directional signs to guide attendees to the event will be placed along the way.
The gathering will include historic-style campsites and period-dressed re-enactors, with a “traders’ row” of people in Mountain Men gear and clothing.
Along with storytelling, a council fire and music, there will be a variety of black-powder shoots for rifles, pistols, trade guns and squirrel guns.
A Mobility Challenged Aggregate for rifle and pistol is set, as well as such novelty shoots as Old Timers, Candle Shoot, Derringer and Black.
Primitive archery will be displayed, and free seminars on a wide variety of fur-trade skills and lore are scheduled, along with woods trail walks.
A Dutch oven cooking competition and children’s activities are planned, as well.
To get to the rendezvous, turn south on Taylor Cutoff Road from U.S. Highway 101, take a slight right onto Lost Mountain Road, then take a slight left onto Slab Camp Road, which has unpaved portions.
After less than a mile, the rendezvous will be on the left.
The Green River Mountain Men is a nonprofit organization of men and women dedicated to educating the community about the pre-1840s fur-trade era.
For more information, phone Lance Mertz at 206-384-9496 or email lance.mertz@gmail.com.
