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PLANNING: TECORE VII Oct. 12th-14th

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by SaltWaterDrinker » Wed Oct 10, 2012 1:58 pm

14 - cool. Already matched out for it ironically. COOL.

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by dvanbramer88 » Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:02 pm

http://www.weather.com/weather/weekend/ ... A0351:1:US

Weather is going to be very nice this weekend. A little chilly Friday night, but otherwise very comfortable. More importantly, No precipitation.
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by bartonmd » Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:06 pm

dvanbramer88 wrote:http://www.weather.com/weather/weekend/Harrisonburg+VA+USVA0351:1:US

Weather is going to be very nice this weekend. A little chilly Friday night, but otherwise very comfortable. More importantly, No precipitation.


Yeah, they said that last fall TECORE, and we got 4" of snow...

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by HARDTRAILZ » Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:17 pm

Reminds me...extra tent!
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by Trail X » Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:40 pm

Hopefully someone can monitor CB 14 while at camp. If I come up the back side I won't have any comms except for CB. Might try to hit you guys on my way in.
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by bartonmd » Wed Oct 10, 2012 3:12 pm

I think we can do that. Call me when you're leaving Harrisonburg. We should be at camp, and we normally have signal at the top of the mountain. If Meadow is already taken, and we have to move to Flagpole, we'll let you know.

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by Trail X » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:12 pm

Cool, I imagine I'll be getting to Hburg around 5 or 6, so it won't be too late.
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by SaltWaterDrinker » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:23 pm

JamesDowning wrote:Hopefully someone can monitor CB 14 while at camp. If I come up the back side I won't have any comms except for CB. Might try to hit you guys on my way in.


If no one else is wanting to do that, I'd be more than happy to - I'll have the inbound amp'd so, if 14 is as quiet as it is around here, I should hear you long before you're close to us.
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by UncleMoney » Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:20 pm

Going

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Rory - NC_IslandRunner
James - JamesDowning
Mike - dirty anton


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Kyle & Mike - HARDTRAILZ / BartonMD
Josh & Dave -SaltWaterDrinker / dvanbramer88
Matt & Jason - moots1288 / v7guy

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Steve - steveroche
Chris - UncleMoney



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by SaltWaterDrinker » Wed Oct 10, 2012 10:44 pm

That's a shame, Chris. Damn it. =\
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by dvanbramer88 » Wed Oct 10, 2012 10:53 pm

SaltWaterDrinker wrote:
JamesDowning wrote:Hopefully someone can monitor CB 14 while at camp. If I come up the back side I won't have any comms except for CB. Might try to hit you guys on my way in.


If no one else is wanting to do that, I'd be more than happy to - I'll have the inbound amp'd so, if 14 is as quiet as it is around here, I should hear you long before you're close to us.


Leave it to the CB nerd, :lol:
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by v7guy » Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:44 am

I got an extra tent pole just because I've had a tent collapse. Definitely no good.

Matts going to have to sleep in another tent with all this 69 talk. :finger:


Can't wait for the next Tecore so I can drive my own pile of junk.
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by Nakashige » Thu Oct 11, 2012 3:35 am

Wish I was heading down. TB is in pieces again
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by NC_IslandRunner » Thu Oct 11, 2012 6:46 am

v7guy wrote:I got an extra tent pole just because I've had a tent collapse.


Kyle is our expert in tent pole failure! He didn't buy one rated for "Holy Shit That's Alot of Snow" :mrgreen:
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by bartonmd » Thu Oct 11, 2012 6:51 am

NC_IslandRunner wrote:
v7guy wrote:I got an extra tent pole just because I've had a tent collapse.


Kyle is our expert in tent pole failure! He didn't buy one rated for "Holy Shit That's Alot of Snow" :mrgreen:


Actually, it was! The problem is that it was 12 years old!

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by Trail X » Thu Oct 11, 2012 8:43 am

NC_IslandRunner wrote:
v7guy wrote:I got an extra tent pole just because I've had a tent collapse.


Kyle is our expert in tent pole failure! He didn't buy one rated for "Holy Shit That's Alot of Snow" :mrgreen:


That's a funny memory right there.

He had like 1 square foot of remaining tent space, and it was roughly over his head, so it kinda worked.
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by dvanbramer88 » Thu Oct 11, 2012 9:39 pm

Our Convoy leaves Bristol Pa at about 7am. GPS is putting us at 4.25 hours. We'll need to stop for fuel once, should be a little early. See ya'll at noon.
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by HARDTRAILZ » Thu Oct 11, 2012 9:56 pm

Leaving IN in 8 minutes. Round 12 hours or so to get there
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by dvanbramer88 » Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:06 pm

Damn... Good luck, enjoy the lack of traffic.
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by fishsticks » Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:23 pm

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