Irish_car_B0mb

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well its in august right

people expect it to be 75º?

we live in cali for ****s sake

it has been 75-80 in january.

i gaurantee no matter where it is this year its gonna be sweat dripping off the ***** hot

saqwarrior

haha yeah

Roo

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To let you know, I offered to cater the event (with volunteer help for serving) last year for a figure of $10/plate. This would include tri-tip/chicken, potato salad, a green salad, and a dessert of some sort. The only thing it didn't include was drinks, for which they calculated two dollars/person. This year, I'd have to re-calculate the figures, but it wouldn't be much more, depending on food costs in the month in which we hold the BBQ.

I'm not going to bother digging up the thread from last year, but the response from everyone was exactly like your "bring food from home" blah, blah, blah crap. I was willing to take some money out of my pocket if I had to in order to help make the event a bit more organized, and work with the people to put on a nice orderly food service that fed everyone, didn't run out of food, and contributed to having a good meet. It was RESOUNDINGLY REJECTED by the majority of people, who cried and whined (just like your posts) about $17 (including the $5 parking) for the meet.

With your whining and complaining about money this year, I'm sure I'm not going to be so inclined to offer my help. Novato's park has everything we need - we just did a drive through and took pictures. Not that anyone's interested, but here they are:


Horseshoe pit (could be used for check-in/organizer spot)


Shade - plenty of shade - open space - several acres of open space to picnic, set up pop-up shades, etc.


Picnic tables - seating for ~80 directly by the BBQ area - although we tend to spread out - see ACREAGE above


BBQ pit - enough space to run a nice little grilling operation


Another view of picnic tables


More picnic tables


Electricity - plenty of it!! Several different locations


Running water!!


Fire Extinguisher - handy to have along


Another shot of the open space


More (different) open space


Parking lot close by


restrooms close by - wheelchair accessible for those concerned


Overflow parking - nice and level


More overflow parking - nice and level

Irish_car_B0mb

iTrader: (3)

**** YES ROO!!!!

not that my pics would have been better but thats the exact spot i was gonna take pics at for us.

great job.

witht he overflow parking can easily do 300+ cars.

vodka

Wow.....stunning. Grass parking ftw for photo shoots. That's nicer looking than hammy actually, but I think Daniel chose hammy already, unless he sees these pics and puts up a Hammy vs Novato vote or some such. The BBQ area is actually nicer than hammy because it's cemented, and covered, with nice seating. Still going to be a "bring your own chair" event at any location, but that's not a problem. We could always do a north bay meet at that novato park hehe.

Rescuer

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I will help. Normally I've always helped set up our acura west coast meets. Last year I paid for the park permits in Oceano (pismo) where we had our 100~ car BBQ (this was a cali meet, not west coast meet). I'm not working and have TONS of time to scout out places with you, or by myself.
So I'll leave it up to you if you want me to be your right hand man to help

04caliwrx

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Roo I love that place! Let's do it at that pose

Roo

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Yeah, honestly they had a concert there last year - it handled a LOT more than 300 cars - and enough of a venue we could manage nicely. Vodka, there is a nice road or two to get there, plenty of nice roads to take a few miles, and have KILLER top-of-the-valley shots for photographing cars, shade - plenty of it - open space for at least 500 to 1000 people - I'm talking acreage.

Irish, I can't take credit for the pics - that's all Silke (Pleiad7) - her talent in telling a story that might convince some people to take a second look.

joltdudeuc

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Looks like a great spot Greg. From google maps the paved lot shows very few parking spots. Is there a dirt lot?

Irish_car_B0mb

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this is for roos pics of that spot

Shade: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
Electricity: YesWater: Yes


Jumper/Entertainment Structure Permitted: Yes, bring a generator. Please call 415.499.6388 AFTER making your reservation if you plan to have a jumper or entertainment structure.
Amplified Music Permitted: Yes, bring a generator. Please call 415.499.6388 AFTER making your reservation if you plan to have amplified music.(Regulated)
Pets Allowed: No

30 picnic tables covered by a lighted octagon canopy, built-in rotisserie BBQ with adjacent prep tables and large lighted serving tables. Close to restrooms, softball, volleyball, and horseshoe pit. Horseshoes can be obtained from a ranger by leaving photo ID and credit card; you must bring your own ball for volleyball and your own softball equipment .

Roo

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The last two photos show a couple of acres of parking lot (grass/dirt), the road's wide enough to park on both sides, there's a secondary parking area that we can use - I can get more detailed shots tomorrow when I'm going to LIC to get some service done.

Irish_car_B0mb

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Overflow parking - nice and level


More overflow parking - nice and level

tamko

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I'm off tomorrow (well...MLK's day), I can hop by Lake Del Valle and take some photos...let me know if that place will be considered, if not I don't want to waste my gas to go there...

alan'09

brucelee

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It'll make planning a lot harder for me if we choose that place... A LOT harder.


The great thing about Hamilton is that its so close to me that planning is simple. (Planning for food, supplies, events). Getting everything up Hammy is easy since my close by friend uses his truck to get all the 2000 drinks up there, I wouldn't be able to use the said truck for the north bay...

If we buy food here's the numbers we're looking at:

1. 2,000 cans and bottles (soda and water)
2. Meat for 500 people, around 450lbs of meet
3. Bread, buns to go with that
4. Chips, snacks, cookies
5. beans, rice, etc

All of that = into A LOT of stuff!!! Getting it all up north would be tricky.

I'm also very unfamiliar with that place and its offices so I dont know how much it costs to rent the place, etc.

I love the way it looks and am not trying to sound negative... just realistic. This place brings on a lot of unknowns and I hate unknowns. I just hope its all as smooth as hammy.

Sorry for being all negative, just a little worried... which is what I do best, hehehheh

455h013

iTrader: (10)

just book mt.hammy and we all will be happy.