Is there going to be a rock climbing trip planned for Monday after the meet?

Sure, what time is the meet over on Sunday? It takes about 2 hours to drive to the Red, so if a group of us leave Sunday night, we could camp at Miguel's Sunday night, climb Monday and probably Tuesday, and be on the road Tuesday night or possibly even Wed. There is a lot of other things to do at the Red other than climbing, too (hiking, sightseeing, horseback riding) so if people did not want to climb for multiple days, they could do other things. The Red has several natural rock arches, and quite a few cool hiking trails.

Yup, that's climbing all right. Continuous intense activity from sunrise to sunset, with barely a pause to pi.. err.. enjoy the scenery .

Actually, it's really much more like the "long hours of intense boredom (belaying), punctuated by brief moments of intense excitement".

Cheers

Right on. And you don't even know how boring it can be until you sit at an uncomfortable belay for 3 or more hours waiting for the other two people in your party to finish the next two pitches above you because there isn't any room for you at the next belay. At the Red, there is a lot of hiking before you can even start climbing, too.

Pictures of the Red here, here, and here.

Mark and Mark, are you both coming this year?

I want to, but time/finances.. I dunno. I think it's going to be a last minute deal with me again.

Cheers!

Well, I'll keep a bedroom available for you

How many would be interested in staying an extra day and going climbing or hiking or biking?

I'll be coming with my wife and new son.

We'll all be going to the Red on Monday - Tuesday/Wednesday too.

You can have 1 of the couple's cabins.

That would be great. Thanks!

The sign up sheet will be up soon. If there are any other couples coming they can have the 2 remaining couples cabins.

Signup list is up, see here to sign up.

I've asked Rob S. who is having the t-shirts for the European meet done if he would be willing to take care of making them for the Cincinnati meet. How many people would be interested? They would have to be paid for before they would ship.

Might I recommend generalizing it a bit. Perhaps an "Empeg World Tour" T-shirt, with various meets and dates on it. Certainly less manufacturing costs and it would reduce duplicated effort.

I'm always down for a shirt.

Ditto, even though I'm not going to either meet. Plus, anything empeg related is sort of a collectors item now.

If there are any other couples coming they can have the 2 remaining couples cabins.

Hm. I should probably poke mrs dbrashear and see if she thinks she wants to come. (She might have a teaching job then, so really it's a tossup anyway, unless she just doesn't care)

I'll take one.

2 couples cabins are taken as of now. People better sign up so I can assign the rest of the cabins before they're all gone