August match results are up!

There were some technical difficulties. Welcome to the computer age, but the results are now available on our website. Or you can just click here.

Can anyone stop Greg J. from winning production? At least beat him on one stage? Am I going to have to dust off my production gear? I'm not sure it would do any good, but I might have to try after I get back from nationals.

Howard's back from Alaska

Sorry I missed the match, but I understand my crew did an excellent job in my absence. I would have expected nothing less. Alaska was everything I thought it would be, but a lot wetter. It rained everyday except the day we were leaving. Still we got a lot done and covered a a big part of our largest state. With the exception of Mt. McKinley we saw everything we went to see. The mountain was behind clouds and we were unable to see it from the ground, and the rain, clouds, and winds, caused our flightseeing tour with glacier landing to be cancelled. They say that you only have a 20% chance of seeing it. One guide told us she had seen it 3 times all summer. The scenery is amazing. This kind of thing is typical. You may notice a glacier in this picture. The things are everywhere.
This is a grizzly bear sow and cub we saw in Denali. Note that this picture was taken from the safety and comfort of our tour bus a long way away. I was unarmed the whole time we were there. We saw several Grizzlies, several moose, dozens of caribou and Dall sheep, a few golden eagles, a few bald eagles, a humpback wale, several beluga whales, some killer whales, and lots of sea lions and seals. I'll post some of those pictures later.
We sucessfully panned for gold. If you look real carefully you can see some flakes in the top left part of the pan. I think between the four of us we got about $40 worth, so we came home. It's not as easy as it looks in the movies. If we had struck it rich Gary might be your full time match director.

A few more pics

Thanks to Paul M for some shots of his squad "doin their thang".

Another One in the Books

Well, it was a long day, almost 70 shooters and 8 stages, includng a couple of multistring classifiers. We only had one backup, and of course it lasted all day long. Thanks to all for sticking it out with the good attitudes and fun that I have come to love from this bunch. Also a big thanks to all the help we got this morning! Setup was not all that difficult, but it was done by 9:00, we basically sat around and stared at each other for almost an hour waiting for registration to close.


Scores should be available online at http://yorkiwlaipsc.org/matches08.htm in a day or two.

Many thanks to Dave for registration and squadding, and Dawn, our invaluable stats lady for hangin' tough this afternoon.

I only got off a couple of pics, but here they are. If anyone has some to share, send 'em to me at ghswope@comcast.net

Frederick taking on the house pit under the watchful eye of Bob.






Thanks to Dave, Paul and Jan for this one on 8, I asked them to make me something fun on pit 8, and they did! Nice little stage.



Shameless self promotion: Funshoot Aug 23; food of the month returns, with RED DAWN!

Cheers



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Funshoot results!

A bunch of you have been askin', sorry for the delay, I finally stepped up to the future and bought a new computer. My daughter is teaching me how to use it....

Of the 42 shooters we had Saturday, only 33 were brave enough to turn in score sheets, the results will be posted for posterity on http://yorkiwlaipsc.org/matches08.htm soon.

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Saturday Setup

Many, Many, Many Thanks to the 8 of you that showed up, you worked hard, and got evrything in the back done that we could in 2 1/5 hrs. When I got there, Jeff K was finishing up the last of the tree that disgraced pit 7, thanks to those who weilded chain saws this week.

This month Howard setup a small review of the Summer Blast, for those of you who didn't make it there... But beware! there are traps and changes for those of you who were! Here are a couple of hints...




Oh no! Not the dredded sled again!
Paul N and John Z at work, with a little suprise..

CM 99-45 being artfully assembled
by Dave R and Tom L

Ok, now you know Paul N is responsible for this little slice of heaven...Ok I asked him too...











That's all for now, I might publsh funshoot results in a day or two, or at least a link.

See you all Sunday, early!

g

August match

It's a little early but we're going to begin sign up for the August match. Please be sure to use yorksignup@gmail.com to sign up for this match. My personal email will not do it.

The August 10th match will be 8 stages and around 160 rounds. There will be 4 classifiers. They are 99-02, 99-24, 99-45 and 99-16. The match fee will be $30. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.

After you sign up at yorksignup@gmail.com you will receive a confirmation email within a couple days. If you don't have a confirmation by match day something is wrong.

Also, this will be my last post for several days. I'm taking my family to Alaska for a vacation. I'll post upon my return. If we're lucky maybe Gary will post some while we're gone.

If you need something to read while I'm gone check out the clubs new improved website at www.yorkiwla.org We have a lot more to do at our club than you might realize.