[at-l] GA RUCK

[icw@xxxxxxxxxxx (Clark Wright)]

Once again, I'm sorry I've missed the festivities of the GA RUCK!  Last
year, over 40 2001 hikers and friends held an informal "RUCK" of their
own close to Amicalola State Park in a lodge-type facility that had a
hot tub, shower room, tenting spots, and a main lodge with a kitchen,
couple of bed rooms, and a big, old-fashioned fireplace in the main room
with lots of floor space for sleeping.  There also were several outlying
cabins.  For the life of me I cannot recall the name of the place right
now, but will dig it up, along with a phone number, and post it in the
near future . . . if anyone is good at searching the archives, I posted
the name of the place back in early 2001 . . .

thru-thinker

W F Thorneloe wrote:

> Thank you to all who helped to make the GA RUCK as success this year,
> especially those who collected the activity fees and punched cards to help
> others gather their Continuing Hiking Education Credits. Everyone enjoyed
> the activities, such as Identification of Ancient Earth Satellites. It was
> fully illuminated by the central star of our Solar System, making this a
> pretty simple task for over 65% of our participants. I missed most of the
> activities Saturday, but understand the multimedia extravaganzas were
> fascinating.
>
> Special thanks to Chainsaw for help with organization and publicity. Sunny
> and Frank for similar work and aid with keeping RUCK Central somewhat
> organized. Hummingbird and others for publicity via the Women's Hiking
> list. KellyGoVols for giving certain list vandals a target for their
> aggression (hope those tires were cheap). Spur for providing a great
> example of how quickly food, fluids and warmth resuscitate chilled hikers.
> God for excellent weather to challenge every hiker and driver. Park
> Security for keeping the blue lights going to help lead others to RUCK
> Central.
>
> Unless we hear a great wave of support for another plan, GA RUCK will move
> from Amicolola Falls Park next year. While we showed up as others canceled,
> we weren't offered appropriate housing and parking access. Displays of
> tenting and hammocks had to be removed as the park police expected an
> ecological disaster from tree huggers and other safe means of hammock
> attachments. At least Officer Barney kept his bullet in his shirt pocket.
>
> Choices proposed include Camp Thornwell (no relation) in extreme NW SC,
> well north of Clemson but pretty darned close to Brevard and 3 short miles
> from NC. Other options are welcomed for discussion, as GA RUCK Czar-ship
> will need to be passed on to less time stressed fans. Goose Creek was
> inviting for our first year, but appears too small for the size of crowd
> that showed up for this year's snow RUCK. We want to keep it close to FLA
> hikers, with the SC site about 2-3 hours north of downtown ATL, and
> probably similarly distant for those along the I-95/I-26 corridor.
>
> I'd appreciate if someone would forward of copy of this to the Women's
> Yahoo group. I greatly appreciate the humor and sportsmanship of Bumpkin,
> our sole Tuckerization Candidate. As has been our custom, she won the free
> llama packing and guide through the Smokies. We'll let her know when the
> permit goes through.
>
> OrangeBug
>
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