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As stated in the first post, I highly agree with keeping the same dates for the monthly club runs. In this case you can use a combination of the 1st weekend of the month and then certain holidays and continue to use that format year after year. There can be some short term pain for people who have to schedule days off way in advance, but after you get through that it tends to make it easier as you can basically schedule days off and plan the calendar years in advance. Keep in mind you can never accommodate everybody's schedule 100% of the time and often when the schedule gets shuffled at the last minute to accommodate one person you then wind up losing 2-3 other people who now cannot make the new date.
I have been to Slade many times in the past, but not since any of the "official" parks have opened (these parks contain most of the big name obstacles we ran). When we ran the area there were always several miles of pavement between the parking lot/campground/motel and trail head and between different trails. I think part of that was being much quicker to jump on a road and buzz down to a new trail as compared to spending 3 times as long driving down a bumpy dirt road to get there, but again I don't know what it is like now with the different parks. There was a group from old club down there a couple of weeks ago that I will get a report from.
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