What I learned about the Deep Fried Weekend

I love deep fried food, it is delicious. Crispy. Juicy. Just pure awesome. 

The last mountains trip in September 2013, we decided to do a deep fried weekend. Ease off the grill and deep fry our meals. What a great idea. I stocked up on some deliciousness over the next few months waiting for day that deep fried mountains would come. 

Well this past weekend, it happened. Here are a few pictures for you to gaze upon.

Mozzarella Sticks, chicken tenders and corn dogs.

Deep frying some chicken wings.

Deep fried desserts, oreos and candy bars.

Look at the food. Awesome right??

Well it was really, but like one day of it, not deep frying for 3 days. Sure it's really good, but too much grease over that time.

Deep fried oreos are great, first time I've had one and if you ever have the chance, do it. It's worth having once.

I found a really awesome and easy funnel cake mix. Here you go.

The oil has to be hot, like all the time, or the food will take longer to cook and taste like oil. I'm sure that's not good for the arteries at all.

Also, items that are composed mostly water say like tater tots. When they hit the hot oil, the oil will go everywhere, like maybe your hand, and then it will bubble up a few hours later. Not fun.

This will never happen again, I can promise you that.

Mountains needs a new grill

And this one would do just fine!

The gas/charcoal hybrid grill is like the best thing ever. I should start a fund to get one of these.

YEAH!

2012 Tomato Festival Beer Chug

Another year has past, and this was our 7th Tomato Festival Beer Chug. This years contestants were returning chuggers Neal and Doug, along with newcomers Jim and Todd.

Check out the video to see the chug.

2011 Mountains Fantasy Football Roundup.

Fantasy Football has ended, and we have an New Champion this season. Doug, he's won before.

Domination.

That's how you can explain Doug's run this year, after going 3-3 he went on an 8-0 into the playoffs then easily defeated the competition in the playoffs. Wussies.

The images below are the final standings, the playoff brackets and the new champion with his prize.






An image of a true champion.

Been awhile, not much has happened

Posts have been few and far between in the mountains realm.

First off, no mountains trip this past fall, the mountains tournament has been at a stand-still for quite some time now. Not sure if we'll ever have the numbers to have a good tournament again.

The Mountains Challenge baseball fantasy league came and went. My 3 year reign of awesomeness came to an end in the first round of the playoffs. Where after dominating all season, my team decided to take a week off and I lost to Bronx Bombin'. The Bi-Winners came back and finished out the season with a 3rd place finish. The Championship was won by a pizza eating ginger, he probably cheated somehow. Gingers normally do. Below you can see the championship playoff tree and final standings.





The Mountains Fantasy Football League is underway. Think I'll do a power ranking on that after this week, right now the Dingleberries are leading the way with a 7-2 record in The Tops Division, Chain Gang is leading the Power Bottoms division with a 6-3 record. Only 5 more weeks to play.

2011 Tomato Festival Beer Chug

The 2011 Tomato Festival Beer Chug including last year's winner, Neal, newcomer Freddie, and veterans Paul and myself (Doug). This was not even a contest. Neal kicked our butts plain and simple. Had he not stopped on his last beer, he would have finished in under a minute. I need to practice a new technique if I want to win next year. I have to say I thought I was fast finishing in under 2 minutes. Wrong. I'm slow. Neal had us beat early and there was really no way to catch up. Fred finished 1 beer, I had followed through and finished my 6 beers, just for pride at that point.

Can't wait until next year, hopefully I can line up some more people to compete.

YouTube Page

Check out the Mountains YouTube page, or as I like to call it Mountainstube.

You'll get so see some great footage we captured like this.

How to properly light a match.




Enjoy

Updates and What not

Wow. It's been way too long. No update on this blog since the Beer Chug back in July.

The Fall tournaments have not happened, since attendance has been minimal. There's really no point in even attempting the tournament, it just wouldn't work.

But we did have the Mountains Fantasy Football League, which was won by Paul. Good for him. We had enough to split the league into 2 divisions The Tops and The Powerbottoms. Here you can view the standings for yourself.


Jason (the Comeback Kidz) dominated all season long, even the first round of the playoffs. His team took the worst time to take a dump on him in the Championship game. Not million dollar belt for Jason! Paul gets the damn belt again. Bastard.

I've also updated the blog design a little too, I'll have to throw up a post here once a month. That's my goal this year.

2010 Tomato Festival Beer Chug

Last night we had the annual Tomato Festival Beer Chug. The competitors this year were Doug, Poon, and newcomer Neal.

Not much to say, proof is in the video. Doug's reign of terror is over, 4 years straight of winning the title has come to an end as Neal downed 6 pony bottles in record time.

Enjoy and until next year!

Mountains Spring Tournament 2010

The Fall 2009 Mountains Tournament, well that didn't really happen, but the Spring 2010 took place this past weekend. We're back!!!! This years challengers, Doug, Paul, Poon, and Kevin aka Unkie. No Bub, Hean, or Herman, they're a bunch of pussies.

Let's start with the recap from the Spring 2010 event. First up, the Wii Bowling Tournament. Unkie pretty much owned this event. He lost in the first round, but not by much and not again in the tournament. Unkie fell below 200 only once, he must have been practicing. Paul fell flat on his face with this event, he just did horrible. Poon did ok, he had some high scores. Doug left too many pins on the board to even compete with Unkie. Way to go Kevin.





















Next up, the Horseshoe Tournament. Poon and Doug started things off while Unkie and Paul went off on an expedition, so they played to 21 (the mountains rule is we play to 15). Had Poon and Doug played until 15, Poon would have won, BUT they didn't and Poon lost to Doug. Once Paul and Unkie came back they had an epic match....wait, not epic, shitty match. Took them forever to finish. Doug took care of Paul easily. Poon didn't take to long to knock Unkie out, but the match between Poon and Paul had to go to closest to the pin takes the point no matter how far away. Then the match went into OT, with Poon winning 18-15. Doug took out Poon in no time and won the Horseshoes tournament just as darkness was setting in.




















Well, this is going to be a short recap. First Unkie had already left and it was windy. Not a good wind either. Poon and Paul went yard in the first round, only 1 a piece though. Doug got 2 in the second round to take the lead, but Poon whacked out 3 to remain the HR Champ. Paul doesn't have any game and hit none.











This brings us to the recap of the newest event to the Mountains Tournament. The Beer Chug. The beer chug is a staple at the Tomato Festival, but is now apart of the tournament. Normally we chug 7 ounce pony bottles, but the beer distributor did not have any for some dumb reason. We had to chug 10 ounce cans, we only did 3 a piece. Doug won, with Paul coming in 2nd, Poon was a close 3rd, Unkie just was horrible. Paul will say he couldn't get the cans open easy, but that's part of the chug.











A picture of your Spring 2010 Mountains Champion. The image of a true champion.

The Fantasy Football belt

This is the belt awarded to the MFFL champion. The winner gets to display this belt for the entire year.

Mountains Tournament Belt

The mountains tounament belt, given to the winner of the fall or spring touranment champion.

Mountains title belt

Test to see if words show up

The Mountains Tomato Festival Beer Chug

Well, better late than never!

The Tomato Festival Beer Chug happened on July 11th, 2009. I think the video speaks for itself.

Poon was a no show for the 4th installment of the Chug. So Bub joined Paul and Doug for the race. Bub was a wildcard, we had no idea what he could do. We know Bub can put away beer, but how fast was the question.

We soon found out.

Not very fast at all.

Doug blew away the competition for the 4th straight year, although Paul got a little closer this year, but that doesn't win you chugs.

Fatal 4-Way Wii Bowling Death Match

Well ok, not a death match, but it was 4 contenders for 1 belt in 1 game of Wii Bowling.

We had a warm up game to get use to the big screen and let the non-Wii having contestant play a game. But that game didn't count.

The contestants:
The Champion - Doug - Joker Mii
Contender #1 - Paul - Beanie hat Mii
Contender #2 - Poon - Darth Vader Mii
Contender #3 - Bub - Girl (or as Bub said, that Bitch) Mii

I won't bore you with details (actually I just don't want to get into them), you can see for yourself what went down. I left pins on standing up, Paul did not. Paul won the title, Bub had a great game, while Poon just stunk up the game. Bub doesn't have a Wii, Poon does.

The Results:


The newly crowned Champion


Posing with his Fantasy Football Belt.

Epic Championship Match

Last night #1 contender Paul took on Mountains Champion Doug in Madden Football.

During this match it seemed Doug had nothing and Paul had the answer. Paul took a commanding 10-0 lead into the 4th while Doug struggled to move the ball. 2 Missed FGs by Paul would come back to haunt as Doug struck TD gold twice in the 4th quarter. Two goal line runs by Willie Parker, who says he isn't a goal line back?? The second score for Doug left 1:12 on the clock, too much time for the Elisha led Giants. But Paul cracked under the Championship pressure again and failed to reach the endzone. Doug retained his title yet again, proving to be the very best Mountains Champion.

Next championship match: when Pauls basement is finished. Wii Bowling death match, 3 will enter only 1 will leave as Mountains Champion.

New Videos added!

Mountains Paul is fucked up:



Mountains Bub Shooting:



Mountains Unkie Shooting:



Mountains Mike Shooting:

Mr. Baghead

Bub revises his role as Mr. Baghead in the Mountains. I had the honor of seeing this years ago, can't remember the exact year, but his baghead was way more elaborate seeing as he was not totally wasted. And didn't have a blow-torch.

The Teddy Bear will Burn

The initial burning of the Teddy Bear.

Doug Shooting in the Mountains

Doug Shooting in the Mountains Spring 2009