Wish it was multiple choice. Of course camping in the Valley sounds nice, but I know how these things go and if everyone's not in a camp site together, there's always going to be one group feeling like it's missing out on stuff by not being near the other group. So I gave my vote to outside. But I'm also okay with inside OR Kings Canyon.

I did the same thing - sorry to confuse - can you change me from in Yosemite to Kings Canyon. It's been nutty here today and I just now got caught up on everything.

Copycat :p

I frankly just don't get this. Swank Camp was so far from Shade Camp that they might as well have been on different planets.

Since all but one group at a time travels to a single campsite for meals and campfire fun, I don't see what the difference is if that travel is a few yards further, or if there are other people camped along the way.

Yes, not as convenient. The other options are, however, NOT IN YOSEMITE VALLEY.

(And sorry, but hoping the Group Camp gets rebuilt is not a reasonable expectations. I still waiting for Happy Isles to reappear. It's been a decade or so.)




Oh, and if we change two votes to Kings Canyon, the voting is currently tied between Yosemite Valley and Kings Canyon.


Here's an issue that I hope makes no difference ... but it is a logistical matter to deal with depending on how the vote comes out. My excitement for the camping trip extends to fronting the $600 (or +) if it's a camping trip to Yosemite. Otherwise, since I did that last year, too ... and waited months to get paid back ... I will leave it to someone else to fund a King's Canyon camp trip.

My offer to (wo)man the phones on Friday still stands, though as a non-camping participant, I ask that someone else give me money infoz. Privately, for sure.

Anyhow, just throwing it out there if services are still needed.

Then why even have a poll? Pardon me if I'm misinterpreting this, but I just read it as, "I'll front it if everyone does what I want, but if I get outvoted then you're on your own!" or "My way or the highway!" :rolleyes: Why not just have a poll asking for show of hands of who wants to come to your campout then? I suppose there will also be a daily schedule of activities that everyone will be required to attend as well, lest they be ridiculed for wanting to do their own things at that moment.

Sorry, but man, that post came across as petty.

No, the poll is to determine the location of Swank Camp. I will still get up at crack of dawn to help make reservations.

Frankly, I don't think it should come to me to lay out the money this year at all. But it seemed to me that the drop-dead reservation deadline was fast approaching, and so I revived the camping thread. I don't mind taking the bull by the horns on this effort, but it's a stretch for me to advance the $600 until late June ... and yeah, I'm only inspired to lay out that kind of money for the camping trip I wanted to take.

Sorry if that comes off like a threat, but it's the way I feel considering my personal financial situation.

I'd like to participate in Swank Camp either way. And you can be sure I'll be one of the guys to pay up immediately if someone else fronts the money.


But I'm really only giddy enough to lay out $600 for the next 5 months if we're taking newbies to Yosemite. That's a personal passion of mine, completely separate and apart from Swank Camp.


Can participants pledge to repay the advance by the end of February? If so, I'll lay out the money to camp at the Anaheim RV Park for all I care. But five months is a long time.

I can at at least help spread out the upfront cash - if not all.

Ken and I can pay our share right away.

ditto