I'm mostly fine with nailing down a date so I can plan my time off.

ditto.

ok, why don't you folks who want to nail it down pick a date?

without rehashing and rereading the whole thread, any of the above work for me. the earlier the better as I need a break before the insanity becomes permanent

for the most part, I can go at any time. I just need to let the powers that be know a couple weeks ahead so they can volunteer me for 3x the work in my absense.

As far as I'm concerned, pick a date. If we can go, we'll go. If we can't, we won't.

I hereby nominate Wednesday, May 14 through Tuesday, May 20 for Wolf Creek in Yosemite.


I can't help it. That's where I want to go. We did (a little bit of) Kings Canyon last year. I know these days conflict with certain people's schedules. I'm willing to go with the majority decision, but this is where and when we'd do it if I had my druthers.

I'm anxious to share the wonders of Yosemite Valley with Gemini Cricket. He helped save a boy's life at Bridalveil Fall ... and then ventured no further into the Incomparable Valley. Being as I saw someone fall to their death from the top of Yosemite Falls, G.C. and I share a Yosemite Waterfall Tragedy bond ... and it is a life-debt I owe to him to see that he discovers the rest of the Valley.

BUT ... that's just my lone guy preference so far.


So no more of this 'sometime in May' or 'I'm good in late June'. Propose some actual dates and places ... and we'll come to a group consensus based on actual plans.

June 5-10 at Kings Canyon group site is my pick.

OK. I have looked through this and other threads, pulled some known conflicting dates and have come up with this summary (using just the weekend days for discussion). Let's use this as a discussion start (well, continuation since ISM and DP have already posted).

Known Bad Weekends

• April 12-13 - Kevin unavailable (MS Walk)
• April 26-27 - Coachella (and I think Susan and I are at a wedding in Oregon, but I am not sure)
• May 10-11 - Disney Cruise
• May 17-18 - Disney Cruise
• May 24-25 - Disney Cruise (and Monday the 26th is Memorial Day)
• June 21-22 - Ken & Teresa unavailable

Requested Weekends

• May 17-18 - Wolf Creek (ISM)
• June 7-8 - King's Canyon Group Site (DP)

Obviously, no individual drives the event, so any one person's absence or requests should drive choices. However, there are a couple of people on the Cruise (DP and GusGus and possibly others that I do not remember), so I would personally request not booking those weekends and Coachella will eliminate a large number of potential campers.

And personally (again - sorry), I would like to accommodate T&K 's (Disneyphile & Frodo Potter) schedule - they could REALLY use this.

With that in mind (accommodating individual unavailabilities), I see the following availabilities:

Possible Weekends

• April 5-6
• April 19-20
• May 3-4
• May 31-June 1 (although this is the weekend after Memorial Day Weekend)
• June 7-8
• June 14-15
• June 21-22
• June 28-29

Let's start by eliminating weekends. If you have a conflict with any of the weekends above, or prefer one of these weekends, post now (let's keep it simple and start with just the weekends and the build the extra days around it). Then we can get it narrowed down to a couple of weekends for voting.

Everyone okay with that?

any of the 'possibles' from the beginning of May forward work for me. April has an event or two already booked and I can't manage another extended leave during that month. (either work or money-wise). the "Wednesday, May 14 through Tuesday, May 20 " @ wolf creek sounds great as well

thanks for the summary K. that helps me a ton

Thanks, Kevy. My dad could use it too - he and my mother used to camp a lot back in their early days, and it would probably be good to get him out and reminisce. He'll also be good to keep watch over the site during long group outings, since he can't walk for more than a couple hours at a time anyway. But, if the majority can't make it around our schedule, then we totally understand.

I have a shoot that weekend, and that's the only conflict for us in your list.