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in reply to: Time to pay the piper #50383
I’m willing to add the FOT48 site to my hosting plan, making it completely free. The registration would be $15 a year, but that’s all the cost we would incur. Let me know if FREE is an acceptable option. 🙂
Oh, BTW, we can still offer subdomains and email, etc to defray the $15 if that makes sense…
@Frodo wrote:
we met Laurie Burt (the president of the AMC, who was also staying there). She asked me what we were planning on hiking this day, and I told her all about the Flags on the 48, and that we were representing Mt. Adams. She seemed positive about the event, but did joking state “I won’t notify the Forest Service about what you are doing” 😀
I’m actually kind of appalled that the President of the AMC didn’t know about the event. I’m not sure if that shows arrogance, ignorance or apathy towards anything outside what’s happening at the AMC. She may be the nicest person in the world, but for cryin’ out loud, this is a major hiking event!
in reply to: Mt. Moosilauke #50118Things were excellent, although very crowded at the summit of Moosilauke. There was another group there that included one woman whose husband died on American Airlines Flight 11. There was also a group of about 35 hikers from the Nashua Mountian Club, all very friendly. All in all, about 40 people thanked us for our efforts, including two retired firemen, one of whom was carrying a photo of the Trade Centers right after being struck. Photos are in the gallery!
Stephen,
Might a format suggestion for the trip reports be helpful? Just a thought…
in reply to: Day Hiking or Base Camping/Backpacking? (2004) #50037Planning on crashing at the Wildwood Campground before and after. Anyone stayed there? Impressions?
in reply to: Question on Participation #49805@CT319 wrote:
For the Moosilauke Team:
My daughter and I participated the last two years:
2002 – Moriah
2003 – MoosilaukeI am out of the country and will be on 9/11 (spending some quality time in Baghdad, Iraq)
My daughter would like to join with the Mossilauke team on 9/11. Would you please post planning information or contact information if it is possible for her to accompany your efforts?
Thank you :flag:
We may have a full 10 person group for Moosilauke this year, but if we don’t your daughter is more than welcome to join us. Feel free to PM me here or hop on over to http://www.hike-nh.com and drop a line there.
in reply to: Bridge (de) construction at Zealand. #49826No problem, the patent for this system is stuck at the USPO anyway… 🙂
We had four people and two dogs hiking.
in reply to: Bridge (de) construction at Zealand. #49824It was quite simple, really, but seemed to work well. Rob (my co-webmaster) found some aluminum angle iron and created three 4-foot sections with two sets of holes at each junction. When we reached the summit, we bolted the three sections together and slid the pole up the side of one tree. We left an overlap (pole to tree) of about five feet and lashed the five feet of pole to the tree. No impact, no anchors, no guy lines. It held very well, even in wind, and we were able to fly the flag pretty high…
Rob, having recently acquired welding equipment, welded a post to the top to slide the grommet of the flag over, but this was not necessary, just fun.
If you’d like more detail, let me know, I’ll see what I can provide.
in reply to: Bridge (de) construction at Zealand. #49822@dirt_girl wrote:
Hey…dirt_girl has a flag… 😀
A confirmation on Zealand Rd. bridge would be very kind of you SC, thanks.
Oh yes, the flag will be high enough to be seen from the Twins, Galehead and The Bonds. 🙄
Okay…I’m dreaming.
All kidding aside, I do have a plan that involves much PVC, couplings, bolts, screws, reinforcement materials, a flag and a bevy of miscellaneous guy stuff I can play with, to make it all happen.
I have also been fortunate enough to have some one sign on (always room for more) to go with. As part of the application process (oops forgot to be serious) I discovered he climbs trees and can carry heavy stuff. How cool is that?!?! Think I should tell him of my wicked plan now or wait until we’re on the trail….hummmm?
dirt_girl
:flag:Hey dirt_girl, my crew did Zealand last year and we made it work without too much trouble. Be happy to tell how we did it if you’re interested… climbing of trees is not an option, nor is running guy lines, as the “forest” is way too dense to get through.
in reply to: Limiting signups #49674IMHO – having multiple groups take a single peak is excessive. The group signed up here is committed enough that if someone bags last minute, it’s often due to illness or some other uncontrollable event (which most likely will only happen in one or two instances at most). The idea to have “on-call” folks seemed to be on target, and if they are not needed, then they can join one of the smaller groups.
Or as we consider adding the “lesser” peaks, we can draw some away from them and have them take a 4,000 footer as needed.
Again, my opinion, but having more than one group hit a single peak can quickly lead to overcrowding and the very real likelihood of LNT principals being sacrificed…
in reply to: Where is everyone staying that weekend? #49746Wildwood Campground. Unless anyone has an opinion about a better place to camp when taking Moosilauke?
in reply to: Posting the Event Announcement to Other Forums #49646@Greg wrote:
Damn! VFTT beat AZ by one. 😆 but at least I topped AMC. 😉 Nice job on the referrals Chris O!
Thanks, I try to send as many people your way as possible. I love this event. I think I’ve got 6 people in my group now, since almost all of the peaks are taken!
in reply to: Meeting Summary #49562My apologies to all, I had intended to make it to the meeting, but a sick 13 month old AND wife prevented me from leaving at the last minute.
in reply to: Flag Upgrades #49539The bigger the better in my mind. I want people 100 miles away to see the flags…
in reply to: Press Releases #49511I’m wlling to participate in the PR campaign, I’ve done that kind of thing before. I would like to see a couple of us doing this, just to get the largest coverage area possible…
It is important that we create the press release in a standard format, making it easy for the newspapers/websites to publish with little to no effort. Keep in mind that since these are free, we cannot typically request a date to be published, they will print the release whenever they feel like it.
One last thing, I think we should tackle the major magazines as well (like Backpacker) they will also print stuff like this. I’m willing to take that on, I did something similar for a Dive Shop I used to work for. But we need to get on that right away, they plan pretty far in advance.
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