Look guys, I find it hard to believe that we cant organize a simple toys & trees run without getting into a pissing match. REALLY?
This is simple, and as with any run, we should ALL be open to suggestions, and allow the flow of ideas, and opinions to be posted without ridicule and sarcasm.
THERE'S A TIME AND PLACE FOR EVERYTHING....
Look I'll throw some jabs and sarcasm around as much as the next guy, but if we seriously can't come together to properly organize something as simple as our annual Toys for Tots and Christmas Tree Run...then this chapter has a lot more problems than ANY of us realize.
I think a few of you are forgetting this point.... the
primary focus of this run IS the collection of toys for a good cause ...Namely... Toys for Tots, We've combined this with the Tree Run for simplicity sake.... and because it was done this way in the past with good results and positive feedback.
We (the NWC) have come together for this in the past (I refer you to last year) without difficulty and all this ridicule/arguing/pubescent bickering. You can get a Christmas tree just about anywhere, and if you really want one THAT fricking bad from a specific area, then by all means set up another time and date to do that, no one's going to stop you, and in fact there may be people that will want to join in.
AGAIN.....THIS specific run is about the kids, and MAYBE getting a tree while we're out.... its bigger than you or me, or what you think the current regulations are on a specific area of one mountain or another, or even where you may feel like wheeling.
Can we please just come together for this with out all the bickering?
There is a thread created in the staging area
http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1092676 that has briefly outlined the ROUGH DRAFT of the plan for this run. The date/time/meeting point is all set.
The actual route is secondary to what we're coming together for.
I'm willing to trust Ryan's and Dave's results from their scouting run recently. And that the Tree's at LaDee arent of good enough quality to consider cutting down. FINE - LaDee was
initially chosen because there was interest shown early in the planning stages of this... again, destination is open to change. Goat Mt. sounds like a reasonable alternative, and I see no problem with considering it. Look there's going to be pro's and cons to where ever we decide to go, and there may be some of you that would rather go somewhere else....its THAT which we need to set aside for the time being and focus on what's more important here.
-thank you.
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