[Gocamino] Fw: bad luck twice!

[Bridget Highfill]

Would you be able to stay at a hotel in Santa Barbara and attend the Gathering 
sessions?  I know it's not perfect, but since your plans have changed.  I do not 
know what the organizers have told you.  

I am looking forward to the weekend, but it will be rainy (not snowy) in Santa 
Barbara this weekend.
Bridget

 
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> From: David Hough on gocamino <camino2003 at sbcglobal.net>
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> Sent: Tue, March 22, 2011 9:46:05 PM
> Subject: [Gocamino] bad luck twice!
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> 
> The mailing list has been quiet so I'll use the opportunity to register
> a complaint with Santiago Peregrino.
> 
> It was unfortunate for me that the annual Gathering of Pilgrims was 
> scheduled on the same weekend as the Winter Meeting of the Yosemite
> Convervancy (formerly Yosemite Association (formerly Yosemite Natural 
> History Association)), namely this coming Saturday.  I've been going to
> the Yosemite meetings for longer than the Camino meetings, and they are
> scheduled further in advance, so I signed up as usual, even though later
> the Pilgrim Gathering was announced to be conveniently in Santa Barbara
> again, a lovely 
> venue that I've enjoyed twice before - the dates never coincided in
> the past.    So I reluctantly passed on the opportunity to sign up for
> Santa Barbara.      (Yosemite meetings are always held in Yosemite,
> oddly enough!)
> 
> Then second back luck:
> 3-4' of snow fell this last weekend in Yosemite Valley, where a 
> typical winter snowfall is 3-4" that quickly melt.    In this case it
> was heavy wet snow, and the net effect was that numerous trees broke and
> took out all the power lines into the park and quite a few in the
> gateway communities just outside the park.      With no power... and 
> a load of snow where they weren't used to dealing with it - the
> park service closed all the roads into the park, 
> and it looks like the Winter Meeting
> will be cancelled, probably the first time ever.
> 
> But now it's too late to register for the Pilgrim Gathering.  Of course
> they have to cut off registration at some point to make definite commitments
> for food and lodging.      But the probability of precipitation is only
> 10% in Santa Barbara this weekend, vs. 20% in Yosemite.
> 
> I would just like to think that there is some valuable lesson in here
> of the sort we learn on the actual camino.      As in the times where the
> albergue is full and something wonderful and unexpected happens, and not
> as in the times where something dreadful and unexpected happens.
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