So...Dixie fire has consumed Butt Lake, Silver lake, and 490,000 acres of Plumas,Lassen National Forest. 27% contained. Town of Chester and the Peninsula so far has been spared. Hammocking for the future is going to be postponed. Sad.
So...Dixie fire has consumed Butt Lake, Silver lake, and 490,000 acres of Plumas,Lassen National Forest. 27% contained. Town of Chester and the Peninsula so far has been spared. Hammocking for the future is going to be postponed. Sad.
Covid’s still here, but way less trees. Still I hope to get to a group hang reasonably close
I'm in Corvallis and g all over the state.
This is coming up. Join us! *https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...0th-22nd-2023*
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moniquews
Adults are obsolete children. ~Dr. Seuss
Hey Y'all!
Hope everyone had a great new year!
I am the organizer of the SoCal Hangers and have been lurking in this thread for quite a while.
If I may offer some wholly unsolicited advice (feel free to tell me to bugger off), my experience is that trying to get people on the same page for a date and location before booking a date and location hasn't been all that fruitful historically.
I can only say what worked for our group. Hopefully it is helpful.
When I went to host the first SoCal Hangers hang I saw there were lots of attempts to do so but (as far as I can recall) they all kind of fell apart because an time momentum was starting up for a date one or two interested people could not go then everybody would go back to starting from scratch.
What I did was to set a date and location, announce it, and let everybody work towards that goal. It did not work for everybody interested but it worked for enough to get the ball rolling. Then, when we did it the next year it was more solid so more people showed up.
I think we started with 12 people and over the years the largest we have had was around 60.
Pandemic logistics kind of put us in a rebuilding phase so we only have 15 people lined up for the hang in a couple of months but I assume the number will grow as we get closer. It always does.
I would say to set a location and date and see what happens. You can always cancel it if there is not enough interest a couple of weeks out. The most important thing, in my experience, is to get things going and make sure the experience is hospitable to all types of folks. Even if you only end up with ten or so people, the next year you will have 20 because at that point there is proof of concept.
Best of luck to you all. I hope you can get something going. I'd love an excuse to go to NorCal.
In the meantime, feel free to come join us in April if you like.
Happy hanging!
EDIT: Just realized I made a similar post in 6/21. Hope it doesn't seem like I am SPAMming you
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