The time is now...

OK everyone, we have been putting it off and dancing around it, but the time for commitment has come. Summer Family Camping Trip 2.0 is upon us and we need to start planning or we will never get it off the ground. Informal socializing of dates has produced the following: How about the 3rd weekend in July (Jul 18-20)? We can figure out the *where* (assuming it isnt back to Twin Harbors) later, for now, let's nail down the *when* and I am proposing this. If you have previous engagements or otherwise cant make that weekend, speak up and propose something else, but I think, given everyone's many and varied summer commitments, this weekend might be one of a small few that will work for everyone... I hope.

What say you?

Conquering Warriors

COLONIAL CREEK

Well here is a map Keith found of the camp ground. I have trimmed off the upper and lower parts because they will be closed. All the lake front campsite are open. There is no water according to the web site, so we will need to bring some with us. There are quite a few camp sites in the area so if we don't like what we see we can just roll down to George lake or whatever... It will be glorious!!!(name the quote)
Here is a good link To the main Camping web page for the area:
http://www.nps.gov/noca/planyourvisit/car-camping.htm#CP_JUMP_177318


Update: Here are some links with information about the Thunder Creek trail.
Thunder Creek more stroll than hike
Thunder Creek Trail

**~^^Planning Doc in full use^^~**

Hey guys we are Dbl checking and adding to the Planning Doc. Please go in and make the necessary changes. The links are on the right side of the main page. I'd like to get a clear picture of what is going on ASAP so if you could make your adjustments that would be great.
People this is a category 7 emergency planning meeting!! I need all you peons to pay attention and do your job the one you were trained for!!! Alright let's go!

Directions and Time to Diablo Lake

Follow picture to directions.

Camping!

Let's go camping!
We have all been talking about it, and I had begun floating the idea of the weekend of Apr 26-27, which seemed to get general agreement from everyone I talked to. At this point, that is a mere two weeks out, so maybe now is a good time to either finalize the date and get real commitments from those who are interested in going and can do that weekend, or discuss and decide on a better date further out. If not that weekend, that is OK by me, but then lets hash out when we want to go. I was assuming we still want to go to Lake Diablo, so another round of ensuring what we need to do (if anything) to reserve a spot, and which campground specifically we are going to try for, etc might also be appropriate.
So this is a boys-only event, but as far as I am concerned does not strictly have to be, but what does the group say? Either way, we should also think about another big family camping trip this summer, but that is a ways off so we have time there.
What say you?
Discuss.

Link to weather at Lake Diablo

Umm Looks like it might be colder then we thought.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/recreation/outdoors/fishing/4065:21
I think this recent snow fall may put a cramp in our plans.
But on the plus side if we do go it seems the fishing will be good.

Which camp site?

I have not heard yet. I was happy to make the suggestion to camp at lake diablo it looks bad ass, but I have no idea what camp site we are staying at. Has anyone checked the web site? Sean you had the link in one of your comments, did you find anything? Looks like from this PDF i found that we can camp at Newhalem or Colonial creek.

Cheers!

Google maps terrain view!

I was out looking at Lake Diablo and the Terrain view is sweet!

Here is the link.

The Devil's Lake Anyone?

Bwa-ha-ha-ha...

Here is a link to the Google Docs planning document...

It's Camp-tastic!

Welcome friends to our new camping home on the Intar-webs! This here blog-thing can take the place of email chains for all our camping planning needs... Maybe. Dunno, just a thought. It was requested and so I went ahead and did it up. We will need to get the list together one more time of email addresses that want/need posting/admin rights. There are some that I either still dont have or need to be told again... What can I say, I dont write this shit down sometimes, sorry.

So lets get going!