View Poll Results: What $ amount for add'l fees would prohibit you from attending GSW?

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  • I already scrounge my couch for change to make the trip, can't afford anything else

    1 2.04%
  • $50

    9 18.37%
  • $100

    19 38.78%
  • Doesn't matter, I'm filthy stinking rich

    12 24.49%
  • Can't afford to go even if the event is free

    3 6.12%
  • I don't go to GSW because I don't like to have fun

    5 10.20%

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  1. #51 Re: GSW 2009 and additional costs 
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    Considering GSW is a family event, we try to make it so that kids (whether college/high school age, or the drivers' kids, also one of the planners is a teacher) who are in school can attend too. It's historically been the same weekend as Father's Day which is usually a week or two later and even hotter. Last year the weather was pretty much perfect just a week earlier. If you'd like to offer your time to help plan the event and help us make decisions such as when the event is held, handling permits and insurance, deciding trails, leading trails, banquet planning, soliciting sponsors for raffle donations, etc etc etc we welcome pretty much all the help we can get.
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    Last year's weather was just about perfect - 2007 was hotter than shit, and that was father's day weekend. It seems that just one week can separate the great weather and hell on rocks
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    Yeah I agree, last years weather was perfect!
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    If gas prices stay below $2 a gallon, I'm sure a lot more people will be showing up. The idea of splitting the group up might work the best. I haven't attended a GSW yet, but living in Colorado and now Utah provides me and other local guys with more flexibility to pick and choose to go when we want. I personally like smaller groups better. I have made enough contacts down there and have a few places to sleep, get welding if needed, and even a flatbed for towing if I break down. I would love to get to GSW, but when will you guys have a final cost number?
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    Quote Originally Posted by fpkites View Post
    Last year's weather was just about perfect - 2007 was hotter than shit, and that was father's day weekend. It seems that just one week can separate the great weather and hell on rocks
    2007 was hotter than hell. Although Hunter saw it hotter last summer where he was. I think Arlo has a pic of his thermometer at 108 or something like that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by black_zj View Post
    I would love to get to GSW, but when will you guys have a final cost number?
    It will be approximately $30 per vehicle/driver to cover insurance and BLM daily permit fees for June 5-6. Registration details will be announced soon with exact details and costs.
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    Cool thanks guys. With gas so much lower (for me) this will be much cheaper this year.
    I for one really appreciate all the hard work and long hours by everyone to make this continue to happen year in and year our.

    3 cheers for the planning committee and sponsors!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ZJ TINS View Post
    Cool thanks guys. With gas so much lower (for me) this will be much cheaper this year.
    I for one really appreciate all the hard work and long hours by everyone to make this continue to happen year in and year our.

    3 cheers for the planning committee and sponsors!

    Lets just hope it doesn't go up again rapidly this summer like it normally does. It has already gone up over 50 cents per gallon here in Colorado since this winters low
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    As others have pointed out, most spend hundreds/thousands to get their rigs ready and get them out to and back from Moab. Of course budgets are tight - but I doubt the $50-$100 would keep anyone who was really planning on going from going. . .

    I do think "pizza in the park" would be a great way to trim costs some. I think it's a little easier to socialize in that setting anyway. If it's not raining, we can do vollyball, throw a football/frisbee, etc.

    Not that I'm pleased about the limitations being placed on our access to public lands. Heaven knows we already pay too many taxes and fees as it is (and it really disgusts me when interest groups lobby successfully for fees to make things prohibitive or to "punish" citizens / change their behavior).

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    PLEASE NOTE: Alcohol is prohibited in all Moab parks, just in case that changes anyone's mind.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ArloGuthroJeep View Post
    Lets just hope it doesn't go up again rapidly this summer like it normally does. It has already gone up over 50 cents per gallon here in Colorado since this winters low
    Arlo, a lot will depend on if there is a refrinery workers strike. If they strike you will see a very strange phenomenon, crude prices will sink, and gasoline prices will skyrocket.
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