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  • Greg
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      Yeah. Read this article. It kind of brings you back to 9/11/01 a bit; thinking of what it must’ve been like to be on one of those planes; or in one of those building… 🙁

      Greg
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        Probably couldn’t hurt to post something over at VFTT

        Greg
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          @the8re wrote:

          I think this would be a great idea. It’d be nice to NOT send it to those who did it last year and have already signed up.

          I agree. See:

          http://flags.alpinezone.com/peaks02.htm

          Greg
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            in reply to: Flags Web Site #48820

            @pedxing wrote:

            I think the history statement is great! I have one tiny suggestion. Instead of “3000+” innocent people who died – I’d put “thousands of” for several reasons:

            1) “Thousands” is what we knew at the time.
            2) “Thousands” reads better – and carries more power.
            3) 3000+ isn’t really any more exact.

            Agreed. i made the change.

            Greg
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              in reply to: Flags Web Site #48818

              Lemme know what you think:

              http://flags.alpinezone.com/history.htm

              Greg
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                in reply to: Flags Web Site #48817

                @SilentCal wrote:

                Does anyone have images from the orginal event in mt. Liberty

                Greg
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                  in reply to: Flags Web Site #48814

                  I like it. If there aren’t any objections, I’ll create a “History” page with this text and link to it from the Q&A. Thoughts?

                  Greg
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                    in reply to: Flags Web Site #48812

                    @SilentCal wrote:

                    On the Q & A section, the date needs to be changed. It has last year’s date that the event was held on. It should be the 13th and not the 14th.

                    All set here. Thanks!

                    @the8re wrote:

                    I realized I sent this via PM, but I wanted to post it here so you don’t get it more than once….

                    For publicity measures, you may want to include a history in the Q&A on how this got started/happened last year. I’ve been asked that a couple times now and don’t really have the answer (as may be evidenced by my September 4 Joined date.

                    -T

                    Any thoughts on some text here? Frodo. How ’bout you? You seem to be pretty eloquent… 😉

                    Greg
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                      in reply to: Flags Web Site #48811

                      Thanks guys. I’m off to the Cape for a couple days of needed relaxation with the family. I’ll tackle these items when I return.

                      Greg
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                        Sorry guys. My day job and 6 month old daughter have been keeping me pretty busy. I’ll try to get the site updated and re-enable the sign up form asap. Then we can start promoting!

                        Greg
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                          Hold on, everbody. This thread is not for sign-ups. We’ll eventually have a form set up that people can use to select a peak. We’ll probably officially start accepting sign-ups later this month or in August…

                          Greg
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                            Hi Lisa – I’m still trying to organize this. There will most likely be a sign-up form like last year. Keep an eye on these forums for an announcement.

                            Greg
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                              Well, it seems there’s a fair amount of interest in participating in the event, but I need some help in planning and coordinating it. None of the ‘committee’ members from last year have gotten back to me indicating they can help again. I need help in the following capacities:

                              1 – I need someone to be the recipient of sign-ups and respond to inquiries to the flags@alpinezone.com Email address. This individual will be responsible for keeping an Excel spreadsheet of the sign-ups and refer folks with questions either to the FAQ, the forums here, or answer the questions directly. They will need to Email the spreadsheet to me as often as possible (perhaps once in the morning and once at night) or when updates occur.

                              2 – I need some members to help promote the event; i.e. post messages in other forums, Email friends family and have them do the same (worth of mouth), contact media coverage if applicable.

                              3 – I also need active members to start some dialogue in these forums to help improve the event, the Flags Web site, etc.

                              4 – It would also be great to have someone with better PHP/MySQL programming skills than me set up an automated sign-up form/database.

                              There are probably some other items I’m missing. I simply don’t have time to devote to these functions. My role will include maintenance of the Flags Web site and Peaks list. That’s about all I have time for.

                              I was hoping those that took on these roles last year would help out again as I feel the event was relatively well-organized. There’s certainly room for improvement though. Please reply if you want to help. I’m not sure this event be as successful as last year without some others involved. It may not even happen. Please help!

                              Greg
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                                We had too five foot sections of aluminum antenna, so the pole length was about ten feet. We jammed it down about 18 inches between the rocks at the summit so it was proabably a little over 8′ when raised. With the 3’x5′ flag, it was a rather small display, but we did ascend via Madison Gulf Trail which added a little bit of a challenge to raise it on Madison’s summit.

                                Greg
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                                  in reply to: Media Coverage? #48783

                                  I came across this article from the Boston Globe:

                                  US travelers pick up slack in tourism

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