Harold Hang 2018 - planning/plotting thread

**Flash Grundelore** · 12-03-2017, 11:45

Since so many of us seemed to see the advantages of the idea of trying to grab a large number of adjoining sites for the 2018 hang, I thought this might not be a bad time to get a thread going.
It would be great to know what we need/want for as soon a reservations become available.

So:

Who can "front" site money and do reservations?
Does anyone know when they start taking the reservations?
What dates do we want to shoot for? [The last two weekends in July seemed popular last year... late for bugs/before Augz heat]
What site numbers? [Did anyone write them down or can you remember what sites you had for '17?]

For reference: the "Group" site that John/Jerry had was apparently #79

I think we were talking about the five, odd-number, pondside sites 73-81, but might have been 71-79. Those were the ones we had across from the kludgie and parking lot, and the 3 to the south along the pond.
I remember that the ones just below our group site had LOTS of pairs that would accommodate a good number of hammocks.

**curlymaple42** · 12-03-2017, 12:05

Where is the Harold Hang?

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**Flash Grundelore** · 12-03-2017, 12:50

Great site, Great Hang.... Harold Parker State Forest, Andover, MA, north of Boston.
>> https://www.mass.gov/locations/harol...r-state-forest

'17 Trip Report>> https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...ip-Report-2017

**dandv** · 12-03-2017, 13:56

Hey Ted you beat me to it. Reservations no more than 6 months in advance. If we want late July again we have to wait for late January to reserve. I had site 83 last time, there was someone inbetween, then I believe Jerry had 79. I think those 3 would be a good place to start. Late July works for me but I can be very flexible this year for dates. Thanks for getting this started. I have no problem reserving a site but I believe that 1 person cannot reserve multiple sites.

**curlymaple42** · 12-03-2017, 16:43

Oh!!! I was born in North Andover!! I likely have been there, although I was probably in a stroller or crawling around eating pine needles. I'll keep track of this as it would be neat to go back there. Maybe even stop in to visit some old family friends.

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**tollermama** · 12-03-2017, 18:36

I was just wondering when this hang might be. Thanks for organizing. I am trying to figure out for getting time off. I can reserve a site too. For anyone not familiar with the reservations systems, it is helpful to make your account beforehand and practice reserving sites so that your finger is on the button exactly when you can reserve. (I go to places where the campsites are hotly contested and about a thousand people want the same site you do on the same day). I don't know how popular or busy HP is. Sounds like it was pretty buggy? I have only hiked there once before never camped but I was bummed I missed this last year.

**Flash Grundelore** · 12-03-2017, 19:05

Originally Posted by dandv

Hey Ted you beat me to it. Reservations no more than 6 months in advance. If we want late July again we have to wait for late January to reserve. I had site 83 last time, there was someone inbetween, then I believe Jerry had 79. I think those 3 would be a good place to start. Late July works for me but I can be very flexible this year for dates. Thanks for getting this started. I have no problem reserving a site but I believe that 1 person cannot reserve multiple sites.

My memory is that the more heavily "paired" sites were the ones below us on on past the group site last year... if you recall 83 was pretty open except right back by the pond slope. We had three cars right in the site.
Maybe someone can bushwhack in and make a determination

**Flash Grundelore** · 12-03-2017, 19:10

Maybe we should get our dates first... what about July 20-22nd ...or July 27-29th.

[Coming early or staying late did not seem to be a problem since they are weekdays]

**tollermama** · 12-03-2017, 19:21

I would go for July 20-22nd.

**curlymaple42** · 12-04-2017, 16:55

Nothing on either one of those weekends on our calendar so far! We usually do our annual icecream social on the 20-22 weekend, but we could do it the later weekend I suppose. Oh crap, I may have just invited some hammock hangers by posting that. HAHAHAHA!!! We have tree pairs! Just bring a topping to share. We provide the icecream and hotfudge. Lol!!