First of all, let me say how thankful I am for our amazing BOD, who have worked their fannies off to preserve our launch site, to enhance our equipment, and to greatly promote our opportunities to enjoy our hobby. If you don't know who they are check out http://rocstock.org/contact-us/ and be sure to thank them in person next time you see them. That said, let me say I usually dislike change, especially these days, when things typically get worse. However, sometimes change is good or unavoidable, and we adapt and move on. I'm sure the BOD is already all over this and if this discussion is premature, please forgive me. the range will be moved about 1000 feet south of its traditional location. I assume this is because where we've been launching is actually private land. Shifting 1000' to the south would put us on Public Land. No worries there, it's a big lakebed. My main concern is that the primary access road onto the lakebed will lead people right into the middle of the range. I guess my question is: will people use the same road on to the lakebed and turn south earlier or will we establish a lake bed entrance further south or will we flip the range around somehow? I don't think we can create "new" roads on the lakebed. If it's too soon for the BOD to respond, I understand. As a usual part of the Walquist-Erbas-White ROCstock surveying crew, I'm just looking ahead and trying to visualize how we are going to stripe up the lakebed come June. In the meantime, just getting a little healthy exercise for my 1st amendment rights (not easy to do these days!) Go ROC (and ROC board!) Chris From: Gregory Lyzenga <lyzenga@xxxxxxxxx> To: roc-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Date: 05/08/2012 11:20 PM Subject: [roc-chat] Re: Launch site. Sent by: roc-chat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On May 8, 2012, at 10:52 PM, Ken Curran wrote: In a recent message from Greg, he mentioned relocating the launch site. Anyone care to expand on that? Also our permit is only good until September? First question: In order to put all our pads on BLM land, the range will be moved about 1000 feet south of its traditional location. Thanks to some good scouting work by Richard Dierking, this should involve minimal inconvenience to arriving vehicles, but we'll have to "train" folks to drive in and set up camp in a new pattern. Second question: Our first permit was good through the 2012 fiscal year, i.e. through September. But the latest word from Allen is that our follow-on permits have now been approved and we are good to go until 2017, as long as we remember to pay the bills and file the reports. Yee haw! Let's fly some rockets! - Greg ------------------------------------- Gregory A. Lyzenga <lyzenga@xxxxxxx> *** (909) 621-8378 Dept. of Physics, Harvey Mudd College *** cell(626) 808-5314 Claremont, CA 91711-5990 *** fax (909) 621-8887 <http://tinyurl.com/LyzengaPhysics>