Assateague Island, Maryland, USA

What: Ranger Training
When: May 18 & 19, 2002
Where: Assateague Island National Seashore
Mapquest: National Seashore Ln & Hwy 611 (Main Park Entrance)

Details: Arrival available after 12 noon on Friday May 17. We have two 25-person group sites. The group sites are near a parking lot and are separated from the ocean by a small sand dune. The campsite will be paid for, your responsiblity is for your own food, your entrance fee to the park ($5) and your camping supplies. there will be a communal dinner and beer to which you are asked to donate $5 each ($10 total).

If you want to make your own camping reservations, here's where to do it: http://www.nps.gov/asis/pphtml/camping.html

Our agenda is generally as follows:

• Friday: arrival, set up, drinking and dinner
• Saturday day: several interactive training sessions. Bring your own breakfast and lunch for Saturday. Please, no elaborate lunch plans. Save the elaboration for Dinner.
• Saturday evening: several interactive training scenarios
• Saturday night: dinner, drinking, fun and merriment will abound... Group dinner is being planned. If'n you want to help, let any organizer know.
• Sunday morning: Bloody Mary's supplied by Splinter.
• Sunday afternoon: drive home crab fest, plus book your time to ride on the Ferry to Cape May early. (Neither required but when in Maryland, eat the crabs... and an hour on a ferry boat with all your gear, a bunch of rangers and a bar don't sound toooooo shabby do it?).
• By noon on Sunday the 19th we should have left no trace.
  

You must contact one of the following people to confirm your attendance at the event. You can email Clay (clay@rangers.org); Splinter (splinter@sealspace.org) or Ripcord (rangrsteve@yahoo.com)

If you do not make a reservation and plan to just show up also plan on not being able to stay. The site only holds 50 people and it will be on a first come, first served basis.

from the distant edge...
Clay