[Stephen]

in reply to: Highland Center update??? #50654

HC is more than willing to host us. The drawback is that people want to be able to order from a menu. Whereas if we go HC or catered, that option will be taken away.

Here’s the last correspondence I had with HC:

Hi Stephen –

Hope you had a good weekend… I finally caught up with our chef today
and talked to him about the FOT48 event next year.

Basically, since some people may end up lodging here, what I did was I
took the dinner portion of our lodging rate and used that as a starting
amount for the FOT48 event. This ends up being $18/person, and would
include:

1. Coffee service throughout the event (a nice thing for people to have,
especially if it’s a colder day)
2. Chicken & vegetable stir fry entree
3. Vegan entree – vegetable quesadillas with black bean salsa
4. Red beans and rice side

As we mentioned, we’d set up a cash bar and let folks pay as they go.

If the $18 amount is higher than you had in mind, let me know. We have
other options for the menu (pizza, etc) that would bring the cost down.
I just started at this point since it’s our “normal” dinner cost, and
therefore we can substitute the FOT48 event for dinner for the folks
who’d be lodging here. (So if they stay here that night, there’s no
extra cost involved for the banquet.)

Let me know what you think… I’m sure we can figure something else out
if this doesn’t work.

Thanks!
Eric

—
Eric Jackel
Sales Manager – AMC Highland Center

Feedback, anyone?

-Stephen

[Stephen]

in reply to: Website Updates #50020

Spring cleaning:
• Archived 2004 data
• Create 2005 forums
• Moved a couple relevant 2005 threads

-Stephen

[Stephen]

in reply to: Planning weekend 2005 #50569

Ditto and ditto. I’m in. I’m happy to offer my services once again to the endeavor. Though I’d LOVE for some publicity minded person to step in and take over that role. Especially a good looking one… reporters respond better to cute people, and I ain’t one of those.

-Stephen

[Stephen]

in reply to: Website Updates #50019

As some of you may have noticed, this site was hacked twice yesterday.

This was due to a vulnerability in phpbb. An upgrade resolved the security hole and our webhost moved quickly to restore our files.

-Stephen

[Stephen]

in reply to: New poll: 2005 Flags on the 48 #50562

I’m biased in my view.

Having said that, I do want to point out that everyone can do Saturday who has voted. Not everyone can do Sunday. The desire to include all would point towards Saturday.

-Stephen

[Stephen]

in reply to: No press coverage this year? #50483

@snowball42 wrote:

The Lawrence (MA) Eagle Tribune did a great story on our group which included some info about the whole event(mostly accurate – there are more than 48 4,00 footers in the US?!). Front page on Friday, Sept 10th. I haven’t been able to access it online, but I have copies if anyone is interested.

Found it!

http://www.eagletribune.com/framesets/searcharch.htm

[Stephen]

in reply to: Website Updates #50018

I changed a setting this morning that broke logins for most of the day.

Logins should now be working properly.

-Stephen

[Stephen]

in reply to: 2005 Flags on the 48 #50525

Done. This thread will be locked in preference for the new poll.

-Stephen

[Stephen]

in reply to: 2005 Flags on the 48 #50521

@Greg wrote:

Finally, can we agree that 9/17/2005 is too far removed from 9/11 to really make sense? If so, I feel the only democratic way to resolve this is to poll it out.

The important thing is what question to ask. I see a few categories of people:

-Cannot hike on a particular day
-Prefer 9/11 over traditional Saturday
-Desire a 2-day event

I’m thinking something along this line:

What is your preference for 2005 FOT48?

Saturday, because I cannot hike on Sunday
Saturday, but I could do Sunday instead
Sunday, because I cannot hike on Saturday
Sunday, but I can do Saturday instead
Both days, I’d like to see a 2-day event

[Stephen]

in reply to: 2005 Flags on the 48 #50515

@Greg wrote:

Personally, I feel the emphasis should be placed on when it makes the most sense to hold the memorial itself, not how it will affect the post-event gathering. I also feel that flying flags on two days may be difficult to coordinate. I think we should keep it simple and have one special day for it. Just my opinion…

I actually believe that it would not add a significant amount to the coordination.

1) It allows for more than one party to cover the same peak.

There are some groups that would like specific peaks, either for personal or “list” reasons. The 2-day solution would cover both.

2) Many hikers spend more than one day in the mountains.

I believe that the number of hikers participating on both days would be high, maybe even over 50%.

3) We had more than one team at a number of peaks.

We could spread these out over two days as well.

4) Each year generates a few more participants.

I am already recieving e-mails from new hikers interested in next year’s event.

5) Publicity was low this year.

And yet we still covered all the peaks. Increase coverage early on with a strong call for more hikers for the two days would likely garner enough support.

6) Two days increases participation.

There are those that cannot participate on Sunday hikes (like me), and those who do 9/11 specific events (like Ken with Cops on Tops). Having the two day event will draw more hikers who can only do one day or the other.

7) A better defined registration plan can alleviate signup confusion.

We have about 9 months to develop and deploy a registration system that is fair and inclusive, as well as automated and simple. I’m certainly up for the challenge.

-Stephen

[Stephen]

in reply to: 2005 Flags on the 48 #50512

@MtnMagic wrote:

A thought: Groups flying flags on summits Saturday and Sunday. A weekend memorial!

WOW! I think this is a SWEET idea. Do a memorial on both days. It opens it up for more people to participate. Some folks could even cover one peak one day and another peak the other day.

What about the get-together? I’d reccomend Saturday night. That way those hiking on Saturday and those hiking the next day can gather for one evening party.

You may be on to something here! Any other thoughts on this?

-Stephen

[Stephen]

in reply to: How long do your pictures take…. #49950

Based on the fact that we had over 100,000 hits on 9/13, I’m thinking that the Monday after the hike is the big day to upload pics…

-Stephen

[Stephen]

in reply to: 2005 Flags on the 48 #50504

That would eliminate my participation. Church comes first in my family.

The poll has been restarted with Sunday 9/11 added.

-Stephen

[Stephen]

in reply to: How much did you spend? #50414

@ken wrote:

>>They muttered something about waiting a long time to be served to a guy in a Yankee Hater shirt!<<

he is probably one of those guys who roots for two teams. his home team plus whoever the yankees are playing against.
many mets fans are like that (root for the mets and whoever is playing the yankees).

I hear that. I root for UNH and whoever is playing Maine.

[Stephen]

in reply to: No press coverage this year? #50480

@Greg wrote:

@Stephen wrote:

If you can find the article (you are the second to tell me about it) and let me know which day, that’d be great. I’m searching online for it, but in vain.

I think this may be it:

http://premium1.fosters.com/2004/news/september2004/09.10.04/friends/friends%5F09010b.asp

Yeah, I just found it.

This is our press release.

-Stephen

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