Rule #27 Annual Star Party up Snoqualmie Pass

I will be still recovering from trip to Sweden and Norway  

but thought I'd mention quickly  my Annual Star Party 2017 will be

Saturday 8/12 to Sunday 8/13/ 2017.

  For you usual friends and folks this should not be a surprise ....it has been on Aug 11/12/13 for 25 some years with me and before that of course the  PERSEID METEOR SHOWER has been occurring on these same dates for  a few hundred years, maybe more like way more...have to look that up.

So OK THIS year will be different than below description..I am creating Slip and Slide and driving to Chelan Sunday only in small car. So for first time in 27 years I will not provide pancakes...maybe cold one from Dan at Aardvark. 
And prob just Hurry for Curry for dinner/snacks. See Facebook of course. Stop at pass right at top near chevron gas station...tell Dan I sent you. Grab food. PERFECT. It's sort of a fancy

Notes= See notes or face  book or other ..youtubes for this year's Aurora adventures. Guess I have not posted here in a while. Will do some on big trip.. we leave next wednesday ..Last year we had 8 people 3 or 4 of whom were asleep but saw 345 total till 4 am...I sort of forget but record year, no moon, new spot..may choose that. and HEY it could be crowded because peak is actually on Bob's Sat night deal....Gad Both Bobs come to think of it...better get there a 4:22pm.

I often have full description with menu details ( sausage/ huckleberry pancakes, bake potatoes) and Map ( exit 63) and equip list ( pad and remember your shoes brog) ...but right now I got to find my car 

and run some cash down to Seattle Public Utilities so they do not turn off the town houses' water ......ok ok I did leave a few things on my list when I flew off to Paris.

JUST IN CASE YOU ARE NEW AND I DON'T GET BACK TO MORE DETAILS....... ask around .. my star party is fun easy to get to ( about an hour) sometimes coldish....and we see always around 100 shooting stars = meteors ..one year with 42 people we counted 385. Most years with more like 15 or 20 friends we see 122 or if cloudy then only 85. I have left seattle in the drizzle  and full cloud cover to find the mountain ( over the Pass)  broken clouds getting to sun/clear. ...in 22 years i think Willie and 1 were skunked like one time.  ..then there is the famous  2  +1/2 hour Aurora show of ? 2002...made headlines on that Paisley LIght show...i still swear I could hear them....

 Check my Facebook for more details if you like or hey

write me back. 

oh heck maybe this is the detail email/ evite/ flyer? 

Look it is about an hour drive up to a mountain road (X 63..cabin creek) then up a shortish log road ( 2122 of course, not making that up) to the very top at about 4000 feet. Just car camping at usual spot, if you forgot to check the people list and don't fit well just an hour and you are home or 12 minutes to the real bathroom at the Pass.

Added tasty bonus tracks== Owen's Meats in Cle Elum and Lake Easton Park cold dip/clean off/ nap. ..Also potential XXX Root Beer stop on way home..but usual we are too sleepy to do more than a RB float...

Some have come at after midnight and gotten up at 6 am to get to work....you know like the MYSTERY FAMILY  who comes and goes every year, still who knows who they were??

We always go on the Peak which is Monday morning......I checked 7 websites and majority say Peak is Sun/Mon...yeah the paper etc say just this weekend...yeah yeah..that is when "Bob" comes on Saturday night.

But really Sunday will be best, hope for clear skys,,,, hmm if not could be a fast upgrade? never happen before....

Bring some pad or chair we stay up mostly then nap till like 2 am is best and then they start working, the small moon sets about midnight i think?  I can get cold and windy so they tell me, I never wear socks or ? 

I will bring some stove some water some meats and mustard. If you want coffee bring that.  No political canvasing allowed ( joke from 1996), No green pea soup please ...hmm unless it is warm.

Follow the orange flagging...carpool or watch out for many rocks and ditches esp towards the last 1/2 mile it is rough and perhaps closed like they threaten every year....

What else. I bring a big big tarp and we just plank out on pads and such and as Jack Horkheimer says  KEEP LOOKING UP....

See you there or read about it online. Oh yeah some possible cell phone service up there...heck you can see Alaska from there....also I-90.

   MOST FOOD CANCELED OR JUST AARDVARK THIS Year 

Note if you let me know you are coming I can send more actual details and more importantly buy enough buns and hot dogs and ...heck something else, what is it? ...every year i forget something....a hat, no no something like to eat , toilet paper? 

? I will think of it next week.... bye from Brogan from Seattle