Ya, I going to comferm some info this week. Will let you know what i find.

Great timetable! Can you publish it as a Google calendar?

When things get finalized (soon hopefully) we should have the timetable published and a calendar on avatarmeet.com.

Anxiously anticipating the final dates :D I will buy my tickets ASAP when I know.

Moco: goal is 2 weeks

OK so how is next friday, September 23rd at 10:00 PM PST for our next discussion? (same time as last time)

We can get some specifics down and figure out some general stuff.

(sorry for postx2)

I'll be doing something that night. Any date is okay with me. I can plan the other vacation around it. I just want to know about logistics.

I'm fine with that even if it is very early, I'll try and be up again :P

I really just need the dates 100% confirmed now.

Working as hard as we can to confirm all the dates.

We are taking a little time just to make sure that we don't end up with some big FAIL, so stuff like Hotel arrangements is something we are getting cleared up before we are calling the dates "Final".

- Mikko

Sorry about not responding immediately, but that should be good by me.

Looks like most of us can make it this Friday. I think we are still waiting on a few people...

About Dates: THIS team (camping planning team) will need to confirm the camping dates/place/basic logistics asap (probably this Friday). THEN, the avatarmeet planning team will take our information/dates, combine it with the meetup dates/info and THEN publish the finalized dates of the whole meetup/camping trip.

Yeah, currently it's a bit all go on the planning front. There are a number of things that have to be confirmed in various areas that we need to bring together and we've given ourselves a two week target to aim for. We'll do our best to achieve that so everyone can begin to make their travel plans.

Afraid I probably will not be able to make this Friday's Camping IRC meeting thingy as I'll be heading up to York (Old York - hehehe), where I'm helping with a railway exhibition at our National Railway Museum. Although I might be able to join in through my phone. Might be a bit intermittent though as we go through the tunnels! Is there anything you need from me at all for this?

One thing that springs to mind is for those needing to hire stuff. They will need to collect the gear and drop of their other stuff before making their way over. For some reason I had it in mind that I need to investigate the ferry across and a shuttle bus thingy to the camp site as an option, but I can't remember now. :S

Alan (Brain slowly frying:P)

@Alan, yes definitely getting gear and transportation is very important. There is a problem though: people will be arriving at different times/days in Seattle, and some won't even go to Seattle before going to the campsite. I think people will have to arrange their own transport/gear. Maybe people can group together and arrange mini shuttles or something, but I don't see the possibility of a mass group transit or "gear hiring run".

If it's arranged well enough so that I'm not driving all the way out to the airport for a single person, I wouldn't mind being a ferry between the airport and camp ground a few times as long as gas prices are split between the passengers. This will need to be refined obviously once the dates are set and people start buying tickets .

Edit: I forgot how many hours away the airport is from the Olympic Peninsula, I'm still willing to pick up a few people on my drive from Seattle to the campground, but won't be driving back and forth.

Also, I realize my dad might not let me have the car for 4 consecutive days out in woods, leaving him stranded. It depends on his work schedule.

Peninsula Bus Lines runs between Seatac and Port Angeles daily. Regrettably Alaska Airlines stopped operating out of Port Angeles airport a few years ago. Kenmore Air still goes there though, I think. Believe it or not, a charter flight isn't that expensive when you fill the plane. But the bus line should work for most people. There should be a place in Port Angeles where you can rent camping gear...