OK, we got a list up there at the top copied from 1-2 years ago when we were in our "trip rich" heyday. Everyone put down everything they could think of for a desireable trip, then we got lots of folks who upvoted the trips then when the time came then harsh reality proceeded to set in.
We learned that "the big announced dates" had a natural issue or two.
Bad weather took out about half the trips and the folks that had to put in vacation long in advance had some other issues to deal with due to doing reschedule after reschedule.
Me, personally, I had to re-re-schedule vacation days so often it started to be treated as a joke by my supervisors at work. The MM Ranch trip, heck, they just abruptly cut that one off at the knees because school was in session and we had a rescheduled football game that weekend. I was left holding 40 pounds of chicken in the freezer that had been planned for the trip.
I was told by my management "to go some other time" ....
We had trips rained out after paying for renting a cabin, we had honchos who were not able to get free to go on "their trips" that had list members signed up for them, we had "you name it" for diffferent issues crop up over the course of the year.
The oddest malady was two trips that had honchos that simply would not assign a firm date to the trips, which caused the trips to fail, naturally.
So, the big list had some issues as a way of setting up trips.
What did seem to work was the folks who wanted to go somewhere communicating directly by phone or PM. These wound up being smaller trips of 3-4 people but they always came off and were successful.
So, understanding there are some issues with the "Big List" approach if you live close to some neat riding or some interesting event type stuff and want to honcho a group trip, speak up. We will see if anyone wishes to do that trip and then you guys can beat out the details by phone, or PM or by on list discussion.
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