White Mts CA

[tfwthom]

Those looking for a summer star party.....I posted this to the AZ-Observing board<br /><br /><br />We are planning on doing our White Mountains/Bishop Area Joint Star Party this August. (Thursday Aug 24 to Sunday Aug 27th) Maybe...depends on if we can get at least 10 people to go.... http://www.observingsites.com/ds_ca.htm (Big Pine) So far we have Dennis, Ara, Brad (maybe) Ellen and me. Jim Mahon http://www.lgscv.org/ is checking with his club to see how many are able to come this year. Grandview is a first come free camp so we need enough people to take over an area so people are not building fires around us.<br /><br />Background:<br /><br />About 6 years ago I came back from the GCSP and didn't take my scope out again for a couple weeks (monsoons) Jim invited me to drive out and join his clubs star party. We've been doing it ever since (except last year) as a joint star party. First couple years we had some smoke from fires west of the Sierra Nevada's and got rained and hailed on a couple times. If the weather is good and the fires are not too bad it's a better site then the Grand Canyon. (Jim may say the North Rim/Cape Royal is better) <br /><br />If you want to go with let me know. Got to get out of the damn monsoons. We used to have a great site at a group camp where we could control what went on but it was so good that they put radio telescopes in it. Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) http://www.mmarray.org/ They offered us a tour if we come up. That's why we are going to Grandview Campground, we need to check out the new group camps and see what they are like.<br /><br />If we go my plan is to leave Phoenix on Wednesday and camp for a night in Lone Pine (Boulder Creek Campground) http://www.395.com/bouldercr <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="1" color="#3366ff">www.siriuslookers.org</font> </div>

 

[nevers]

Dang, dang, dang! Those are the exact dates of our company campout. I can't skip out on it either - I'm in charge of the whole event. Dang...argh...dang. Did I say dang? Dang! Dang it...

 

[nevers]

Dang!