Winter 2011 West Coast mini Rally

[Lawrence M.]

All,

Unfortunately Sandy and Larry will have to cancel on this gathering.
We have a new grand daughter that had a very difficult time arriving into this world and We need to stay and help the parents.
Look forward to seeing you all in Las Vegas.

[rahangman]

Hey, Jim & Chris, nothing beats the weather in Colorado like Feb-Mar-April, eh?

[Coloradobus]

Ya Roger,

We have almost tied having the snowiest February since 1912. We have two more inches to go to get 22 inches for the month to match the 1912 record.
The winds were absolutely outrageous. Car windows being blown out in Golden, tree limbs air-born, gravel from highway shoulders blowing into car windshield while on the Interstate (mine), semis travel trailers including an airstream and other high profile vehicles tipping over, and now cold an snow. Castle Rock got almost a foot.
Steamboat has had 10 feet since the 1st of the month.
Deep powder skiing breaks at your shoulders. Wow!!
The coach is trapped in the garage with snowpiles we don't have room for.

[rahangman]

Jim, don't despair! Summer is fair...I remember when still working recording like 98" of snow over the last weekend of that year for the Ski Train to run and I was the designated person to have to call them to refuse them to leave Denver, we could not safely offer them passage to Winter Park and return. We were running multiple engine units with plows & blowers just trying to keep from "loosing" the ability to run trains after the snow quit. Some pretty big snowfalls. Glad we're not at Monument right now, I can imagine what they have at 7500' !!!! Be safe in all that, our kids/grandkids are doing it also.

[HarborBus]

Congratulation on the arrival of you new grand daughter, hope all is well with the mother. Sorry you can't make it to the rally but first things first, see you in Las Vegas.

[Jim Skiff]

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Pictures provided by Gary Deinhard.
"Breakfast at the Congress Hotel in Tucson."

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[garyde]

Here are some more photos

https://picasaweb.google.com/garydei...CKq034bnv7zmLQ#

[garyde]

Here is some more photo's of our rally. We had a Pot Luck dinner outside Sunday evening. I had a great time, too bad it wasn't another week.

https://picasaweb.google.com/garydei...OXu4IOSqtbs8QE#

[BrianE]

We had a great time. Thanks Elliott & Evy and Larry & Teddy for being the primary instigators and worker bees. Gary, as usual you did yoeman's work as official photog and Pot Lucker extraordinaire.

[HarborBus]

Click on the below website to see pictures from the Tucson Pog Rally...Elliott & Evy

http://pogpics.shutterfly.com/