Subject: Thanks Dave! and Awards
From: Ian Howie
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 23:08:33 -0400

Firstly, thanks, Dave, for arranging the event at this location.  Ace is
open year round, and I see myself going back during the cooler months of
the year for some more photography work.

It was great to see everyone, and to meet some new people and put some
more names to faces.

After having all that fun driving around the camp in the truck, and
scouting out the road over the mountain, the trip home was a fairly
uneventful 12 hour slab run.  That is until I got just east of Scranton,
PA, on I-84.  I must have found a storm cell that had gotten some bad
directions on how to get to WVA, and was unhappy about missing out on
the a.m. fun at the camp.  It was coming down like a solid wall of
water.  Even at 30 mph with the wipers on maximum, visibility was very
limited.  Between the conditions at the camp and this storm cell, the
new all terrain tires I got last Thursday were money well spent.  I
finally made it back to the house around 2 am and was greeted by a
couple of happy hairballs.  With the late arrival I was glad that I did
not have to go in to work until lunchtime....

.And when I finally got to work, my manager commented that it was a
good thing I wasn't where all that flooding was going on down there in
WVA or I would have gotten home much late than I did!  He was almost
stunned when I relayed some of the goings on....

On to the awards.

The Keeper of the Hangover award was not, to my knowledge, actually
awarded.  For those of you who might be interested in seeing what that
particular award looked like, wander over to:

http://www.fraon.com/tempfiles/kothaward.html

The award for most memorable moment was also not awarded.  If you have
some nominees, please send me and/or Dave some email off list and we'll
see what develops.

If you got an award and it came out a little damp from that sprinkle we
had on Sunday morning, send me an email off list and I'll get you
squared away with a replacement.

The film from this years event has been dropped off and web pages will
be on the site....eventually.   Previous years images can be found
at:

http://www.fraon.com/pages/rcgallry.html

Ian

DoD 0621   ...life is too short to drink bad coffee...