Saw this in Toyota Trails. I am assuming this is wishful thinking and not a real date.
Not sure where they got that... @3rdGen4R ?Saw this in Toyota Trails. I am assuming this is wishful thinking and not a real date.
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So as someone who orginized the last one, I don’t think it’s worth it with club funds. The turn out at the last one for the amount of work wasn’t great, and with 3 trail cleanups and a busy summer, I think the transition to moving this to a club meet up worked great last year. We did it as a Wednesday night for a regular club meeting.I would love for this to happen this year.
I both agree & disagree with Phillip's above statements. I think the club interest in attending is pretty good, but I think the club interest in making it happen, or even making it easy to make it happen, is dismal. Even things I suggested like having a pre approved budget for this event, like the snow & pizza run every year, were never implemented. It makes it like pulling teeth to get anything done, and you end up fronting a bunch of money on the assumption that you will get paid back (which you do, but there is always a risk). I also suggested many times back in the day that the club is too small to have multiple adopted trails & multiple annual runs/events & still expect this to be a great success (and then we adopted another trail instead). I still believe that. We're not even in summer yet & I bet it will be hard to find a free weekend to set this up on, and even then someone will want to split out members by doing a separate trail run & campout that weekend, etc....So as someone who orginized the last one, I don’t think it’s worth it with club funds. The turn out at the last one for the amount of work wasn’t great, and with 3 trail cleanups and a busy summer, I think the transition to moving this to a club meet up worked great last year. We did it as a Wednesday night for a regular club meeting.
I think the purpose this used to serve before the club had a forum where people can list items they want to sell makes sense. But the same people who do a lot for the club get stuck organizing this and spending there time making this happen. When I asked for volunteers I had one person.
In my mind this is something that can be moved to a regular Wednesday night club meeting outside that does not require insurance, bathrooms, food.
I do understand there is a history of this event, but club interest from what Abe (organized it the year before I did) and I have seen isn’t that great.