Greetings and thanks for all of your responses. Looks like we'll have a good turn out. It seems everyone wants to come to this because Dave Schwarze and Joel Walker are coming from so far away. :)

Kathy Myers has spent hours/days on our behalf securing reservations for us. (thanks Kathy!). This turned out to be a big bunch of bureaurocratic red tape and a lot of conflicting time and trouble for her, so we owe her big time on this one. Not wanting her to have to take the financial responsibility of footing the bill, too, I've snt her a check for $223, to cover the cost of Friday and Sat. nite for all of us to cover the credit card charge she had to give them to secure this spot. Therefore, when all of us arrive, we'll see how many there are, and divide accordingly, and you can all pay me back. :) Obviously, the more people each of you can coerce into joining us, the cheaper it will be for all of us. Nevertheless, if the 25 or so vehicles which have signed up to come DO come, this should turn out to be not too expensive. Just make sure you all show up!

Kathy suggests bringing table cloths, since the tables there are worn. Looks like some biking will be possible too, so feel to rack up. Kathy thinks there should be no problem with passes being closed. She feels even if it does snow, that the snow wuld be removed (rather than left and the pass closed) at this early time. YOu may want to bring chains/cables/spikers just "in case." She says to expect very nice weather, but it may go to extremes, so I personally plan to bring layers.

Yes, people will be bringing children. Of all ages.

Food: how about a Mexican/Spanish/Latino theme? Kathy suggested this, cuz she's in the mood for chicken mole, and it sounded good to me, so I second the nomination. Rather than try and compulsively organize this, how about just everyone bring interesting things to share? For dinner and breakfast, I mean. Lunch tends to be on yer own, or leftovers the racoons didn't get. HOMEBREW ESPECIALLY WELCOME, and the amount of people in our "group" into this is getting staggering. So also are the rest of us once we drink it.

Suggestions are open to caravaning/carpooling, at least from the Bay Area (southern CA volks - feel free to make your arrangements on this). Some of you have indicated being able to leave at various times on Thursday and Friday. Would be fun if we can get together, especially with CB's.

CB's - by habit, we tend to use channel 2, as in Type 2. Hardly anyone has SSB, to answer one question on that.

Here's current roster of attendees. Please let me know if there's additions/deletions:

Scott Harvey Steve/Linda Johnson Dave Kautz & family Kathy Myers & Mark Blanchard Dave Schwarze Ron Lussier Jack Stafford Hugenards Al Hubbard Joel Walker Martha Sam/Susie Williams Michael Wagner Jeff Schneiter Bob Hoover Scott & Maggie Allred Bren Smith and family Bradley Prunehead Bradley Downing Dennis Gentry & Sheila Buchanan Robert Crawford Malcolm, Molli, Ian, Colin and Dylan Holser Terry McGinnis Harlan Smith? Bob Bellanca?

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