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100 DAYS TO CHOOSE FROM EVERY YEAR!
This will be the third year for Pass Patrol’s infamous 100
day schedule. It is an ambitious itinerary
by anyone’s standards, but it sure gives our members a full menu to choose
from. The average Trail Scout member
attended one trip per month in 1994.
The first 100 day calendar was printed in February of 1993
and handed out at the RV, Sports, Boat & Travel show in March. There weren’t enough members to keep that
calendar busy in ’93. Only 70 days
actually ran and on many of those, there was only me and one other person.
Another 100 day calendar was printed in Feb of ’94. Membership grew some and we had members
signed up for every trip. Mother Nature
did not always cooperate and some trips ended quickly. Some never left town. 86 of the 100 days ran. Except for a few exceptions, every trip ran
with at least three vehicles. The
average was five vehicles and the largest trip included ten vehicles. Now we’re ready fo ’95!
TRIP DESTINATIONS ARE CONTROLLED BY MOTHER NATURE.
March, April, & May are the best months for Utah. June is too hot in Utah and the only thing is
Colorado open that early is low level roads and graded roads. The snow mostly goes away in July and near
everything is open in August and September.
If it does not rain, October is normally good in both Colorado and Utah.
TRIP STRUCTURE EVOLVED AROUND FEEDBACK FROM OUR MEMBERS.
The structure for trips kind of evolved from trial and error
in ’93 and ’94. Basically, the majority
of our members: do not like to arrive at camp after dark on any day, do not
like to leave camp until about 9am, likes the flexibility to join a trip
already in progress, leave one before it’s finished, and prefers to commute to
and from the trip at their own pace.
That paragraph roughly describes the framework making up our
two structures for ’95.
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