OFFICIAL June 7-9th NEHHA Hang planning thread

If any new people are thinking of making this their first group hang I say please do everything you can to make it. My wife and I went to the winter NEHHA hang as total strangers. The outsider, stranger feeling lasted all of 15 min. You arrive as strangers with a common bond and leave as friends waiting for the next hang to be planned.

The dude had a telescope....a real telescope at the winter hang! If you are on the fence about coming, please do!!!
We don't bite...well most of us, anyway.

~ SkyPainter

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Originally Posted by Stargaze

Are they in the truck with the Haitian kid? I need this trip to hurry up an get here,

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===> The kid is still there someplace...I took most of the stuff out....had to rent a storage unit to almost empty the truck. Found some cool gear in there!

~ Sky

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Originally Posted by SkyPainter

The dude had a telescope....a real telescope at the winter hang! If you are on the fence about coming, please do!!!
We don't bite...well most of us, anyway.

~ SkyPainter

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I plan on bringing the telescope with me, packing the boys around it is where the challenge is going to be. Saturn should be high in the sky by then at a decent time of night. I will plan better and have other cool stuff to look at for anyone interested.

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Originally Posted by Stargaze

If any new people are thinking of making this their first group hang I say please do everything you can to make it. My wife and I went to the winter NEHHA hang as total strangers. The outsider, stranger feeling lasted all of 15 min. You arrive as strangers with a common bond and leave as friends waiting for the next hang to be planned.

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It took you 15 minutes? You must be shy.
I told my co-workers that it was like meeting up with friends I didn't know I had.

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Originally Posted by Stargaze

If any new people are thinking of making this their first group hang I say please do everything you can to make it. My wife and I went to the winter NEHHA hang as total strangers. The outsider, stranger feeling lasted all of 15 min. You arrive as strangers with a common bond and leave as friends waiting for the next hang to be planned.

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I am so glad you guys felt like this. It was our goal to make everyone feel welcome and wanted. That weekend was one of my most favorite weekend to date. Come one come all you are all extended family.

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Originally Posted by Stargaze

I plan on bringing the telescope with me, packing the boys around it is where the challenge is going to be. Saturn should be high in the sky by then at a decent time of night. I will plan better and have other cool stuff to look at for anyone interested.

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That was definitely a highlight of mine and look forward to it at the next hang.

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Originally Posted by civetta62

It took you 15 minutes? You must be shy.
I told my co-workers that it was like meeting up with friends I didn't know I had.

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One of my friends use to say that a stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet.

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Originally Posted by civetta62

It took you 15 minutes? You must be shy.
I told my co-workers that it was like meeting up with friends I didn't know I had.

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That first 15 minutes was used to lug a car battery to my setup.

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Originally Posted by Stargaze

That first 15 minutes was used to lug a car battery to my setup.

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===> Ultralight backpacking hammock - $175

Ultralight down top quilt and Underquilt - $400

Ultralight Cuben fiber tarp - $150

40 lb car battery to light-up the string of pink Flamingos surrounding the hammock - PRICELESS!

~Sky

So, are us snorers going to be segregated? :) John said he wont sleep near me anymore....

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Originally Posted by Stargaze

I plan on bringing the telescope with me, packing the boys around it is where the challenge is going to be. Saturn should be high in the sky by then at a decent time of night. I will plan better and have other cool stuff to look at for anyone interested.

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Good to hear, I'd have been embarrassed to show up with the toy I call a telescope :D