Date:	Sun, 3 Oct 1993 14:36:53 -1000
From:	jimd@psg.com (Jim Dorman)
Message-Id: <1993Oct4.003653.8472@psg.com>
Organization: PSGnet, Portland Oregon US
Subject: AKA attendees--North Coast Challenge?

Yep, almost time for the AKA convention, once again held near my home in
Seaside, OR.  The question is, are there any rec.kiters who will be coming
in early to catch North Coast Challenge (weekend before AKA)?  If so, I'd
like to meet some of you.  Let's coordinate (yeah, right...).

Jim the Rev Guy, a.k.a.:  jimd@m2xenix.psg.com


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Date:	Tue, 5 Oct 1993 09:01:48 -1000
From:	daveb@sapphire.wv.tek.com (David P Butler)
Message-Id: <28sgasINNa4h@sapphire.wv.tek.com>
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.
Subject: Re: AKA attendees--North Coast Challenge?

Well the question is out.  Who's going to be at the North Coast Challenge
and the AKA convention at Seaside.  I will be, and I'll be staying at the
beachside Shilo (I am registered for this Saturday for the North Coast
Challenge and the following Wednesday through Sunday for the AKA convention).

Now I would like to arrange a supper or lunch at one of the restaurants if
possible.  Being from Oregon I am passably familiar with some of the
restaurants, and there are a few with excellent food and a reasonable price
(of course they tend to fill up quickly).  And of course the restaurant we
choose will be somewhat dependent on how many wish to go to dinner (or
lunch).  So if people who wish to have a rec.kites meal will get in touch
with me, tell me if they are arriving, and when they will be available, I
will take it on myself to try and arrange such a meal.  If you forget to
send me a note on the net, then leave me a message at the Shilo Inn, when
you get to Seaside.  I'm hoping this will work a lot better than the
attempts made at Long Beach (Right Anne?).

As to the dinner, obviously the AKA Banquet night, and the dinner and
auction night are out, because everyone going will have tickets to those
events.  On the other hand, it might be possible to set up a couple of
rec.kite tables at those events (the banquet is how how I met Anne Rock at 
Long Beach).

By the way, if you're a hiker, bring your hiking shoes and your camera.  If
the weather is clear (and it has been as of late), and we can find an empty
slot during the convention, Saddle Mountain is very close.  Its a reasonably
short and easy hike to the top (ie: there is a path, and even children hike to
the top all the time). As Saddle Mtn is the tallest mountain in that part of
the Coast Range, you can see for several hundred miles in some directions.
You can see at least 5 major mountains (Mt Hood, Mt Adams, Mt Ranier, Mt
Jefferson, Mt St Helens and under extremely good circumstances Mt Baker),
and a whole passel of smaller ranges.  You can see the complete mouth of the
Columbia River, the city of Astoria, up the Washington coast and down
the Oregon coast. You can even see the Pugit Sound.  If you're into majestic
scenery, it's worth the trip (on the other hand, you may have to drag me off
the beach kicking and screaming if the wind is good).
  
				Later,

				Dave Butler

    Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: What more could you ask of life? 
    Aviation combined all the elements I loved...  I began to feel that I 
    lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was 
    richer because of its very association with the elements of danger they 
    dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound.  In 
    flying I tasted the wine of the gods of which they could know nothing... 
				Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.



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Date:	Tue, 5 Oct 1993 12:44:50 -1000
From:	Darrin.Skinner@ebay.sun.com (Darrin Skinner)
Message-Id: <9310052244.AA29525@stuntkite.EBay.Sun.COM>
Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Subject: Re: AKA attendees--North Coast Challenge?

David P Butler writes:
-] Date: 5 Oct 1993 12:01:48 -0700
-] From: daveb@sapphire.wv.tek.com (David P Butler)
-] Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.
-] Subject: Re: AKA attendees--North Coast Challenge?
-] 
-] Now I would like to arrange a supper or lunch at one of the restaurants if
-] possible.  Being from Oregon I am passably familiar with some of the
-] restaurants, and there are a few with excellent food and a reasonable price
-] (of course they tend to fill up quickly).  And of course the restaurant we
-] choose will be somewhat dependent on how many wish to go to dinner (or
-] lunch).  So if people who wish to have a rec.kites meal will get in touch
-] with me, tell me if they are arriving, and when they will be available, I
-] will take it on myself to try and arrange such a meal.  If you forget to
-] send me a note on the net, then leave me a message at the Shilo Inn, when
-] you get to Seaside.  I'm hoping this will work a lot better than the
-] attempts made at Long Beach (Right Anne?).
-] 
Dave, 

I'll be there for both events and am staying the week.  So, count me in.

Darrin


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