OK, to get this rocket launched, Simon and I have RESERVED SITE #21 at TAIDNAPAM for Thurs-Sun, June 4/5/6, departing Sunday, June 7th, which is, BTW, a full moon.

I hope the rest of you will join us! A few sites glowed "red", meaning they were booked, but most - plenty - were AVAILABLE and a peek at the images showed very nice sites.

TAIDNAPAM MAP & RESERVATION SITE: http://www.camis.com/WA/camping/maps.asp?loc=232

If not, we'll either be cramping on our own or will cancel and go wherever you go! LOL
- Sharen



Wayne,
I just did the same... the images on the WA state park site for TAIDNAPAM are very good. In fact, if I hit the right keys, the group camp image should appear below, and you are right - lots of gravel, very open, and sites shoulder-to-shoulder.

Simon and I prefer some green leafy stuff in between.

I think we should try for the serviced loop nearest the water, for June 5/6/7.
Sharen

We just booked site 24.

'tho having a covered shelter available does make for a very nice gathering

I'm in space 19, coming in Thursday... departing Sunday.

Space 22...you guys book fast I went to work thinking I had LOADS of time.....sheesh guys.....I come back and there are quite a few booked YEAH!!!!!!!!!!

We just booked our site. We'll be at number 13. Let's fill 'er up!!!

We just got signed up for site 25. We will be arriving on Friday evening after work (and school).
Chris, Maureen & Megan

Sharen, are there any good places nearby for chowder?

OK,
I'm booked in Site #35. Arriving on Thursday, June 4th. Departing on Monday, June 8th.
Greg

I've reserved site #30 for Peter and I. Hopefully we can both make it however it is the week before Peter's spring quarter final exams. Even if he can't make it, I'll still come up and camp now that I know how to drive and set up / tear down on my own.

I booked us to arrive on Friday and depart on Sunday.

This should be fun! The last time I was in this part of the state was when I was a 14 year old attending 4-H camp at Mayfield Lake.

--Lynne

The dates work great for our trip thru Washington State... We booked site #4 arriving Friday and departing Sunday.
thanks for setting this up, Steve & Terri

This sounds like fun. We just signed up for #10 coming in Thursday and leaving Sunday. Thanks for all of the legwork to make it happen!

I reserved #12 from Friday to Sunday!!

Pam

Just booked #23------ I guess the wench and I will have to put up w/noisy nieghbors...... Should be a hoot. Besides we want to meet Brandy's poor downtrodden spouse. Larry

Deb and Chuck will be in space #17, arriving later on Friday afternoon or evening until Sunday.

My brother Steve e-mailed me about this thread, so I signed myself (& dog Joey) up for site 26 and Karen Langlois (and Chase) up for site 27!
Asked my brother if he would come, but now that I think about it he's allergic to dogs. Perhaps he would come if we put both dogs in Karen's car!

Cory

P.S. June 4 is my BIRTHDAY!

Hello all,

My wife and I are new to the site and new egg campers so hopefully I am posting this in the right place. We reserved site #45 for the 5th and 6th. We're looking forward to meeting more egg campers and enjoying a nice weekend.

Steve

Here is the latest list with updated map. Sites marked in red are reserved by our group. Sites marked in green are available. Sites marked in white are already taken by other campers.

Maureen and I also reserved site 28 for Maureen's sister and her family. We aren't sure whether they will be able to make it, but we thought we should be sure that site was reserved for someone from our group. Looking at the site photos, it does not look like there is much "open space" between most of our sites. We could possibly use Site 28 as a central gathering site for the group for the weekend since it looks more open.

~ Chris
Name Site (Trailer) Home
Steve & Terri #4 (Scamp 5th Wheel) Grass Valley, CA
Sharon, Dillon, Riley & Gertie (the dog) #10 (1979 13' Trillium) Lake Forest Park, WA
Pamela #12 (1982 Burro) WY
Wayne & Mailie #13 (2000 Northern Lite) Spanaway, WA
Laura & Rick #16 (2008 Casita 17') Silverdale, WA
Chuck & Deb #17 (1988 Bigfoot 5th Wheel TF20) Battleground, WA
Donna #19 (1988 Scamp Deluxe 16') Portland, OR
Sharen & Simon #21 (Casita Freedom 16') Langley, WA
Brandy, Hubby (?) & 8 yo #22 (1977 Scamp) Kenmore, WA
Larry & Carrie #23 (1983 Scamp 13') Ephrata, WA
Paul & Norma #24 (1995 Scamp 16') Marysville, WA
Katie, Jon, Whitney, Maddy & Hailey #25 (1984 Bigfoot 17') Woodinville, WA
Cory (Joey the dog) #26 (1972 Compact Jr.) Olympia, WA
Karen (with Chase) #27
Chris, Maureen & Megan #28 (1987 Bigfoot 5th Wheel F20) University Place, WA
Chuck & Vicki #29 (1974 Compact II) Marysville, WA
Peter (?) & Lynne #30 (2005 Scamp 5th Wheel) Portland, OR
Rick & Chris #32 (Casita 17') Centralia, WA
Ian & Vicki #33 (Burro 17' Wide Body) Pender Island, BC
Mike T & Family #34 (2007 Bigfoot 25') Pacific South Western, BC
Greg #35 (2008 Casita 17') Bremerton, WA
Steve & Sue #36 (2008 Scamp 13') Sequim, WA
Barbara #37 (1973 Compact II) Manzanita, OR
Roger C H #41 (2009 American Trillium 1300) Western Washington
Paula #42 (1972 Tote n Tarry 13') Tacoma, WA
Lora & Rick #44 (Boler 13') Shoreline, WA
Eric, Roger & Homer #45 (Bigfoot 17') Salem, OR
Deanna #47 (Scamp 13') Battle Ground, WA
Dave & Karen #49 (Casita Freedom 17') Coupville, WA
Adonna & Bob #50 (2000 Burro 17' Wide Body) Eugene, OR
Carol & Jim #51 (2002 Casita 17' Liberty) Canyon Country, CA
Charlene & Dennis (with Luna) #52 (2008 Bigfoot 21') Eugene, OR

i have changed sites.. I will be in # 6 so 16 is available...

Hey Folks!
By golly, 18 sites already booked for June's 2nd Annual WA State gathering. Well done.

We hope everyone enjoyed a fun and filling (ya betcha!) Turkey Day. We feel especially blessed and grateful this year - can you guess why?! And good ol' Tom provided us with a sumptuous meal. Tonight I've made turkey Chile from his, er, remains... not exactly a Dutch Oven, but delicious just the same. If it'll allow me, I'll upload a pix of Simon and the bird. Whoops... no go; it's telling me my files are too big. Well, du-uh.

Cheers all,
Sharen

Chuck and Vicki and there 1974 Compact II will arrive Thurs and Depart Sun. We're in site 29

We just reserved 16 and will arrive on the 4th. Looking forward as we couldn't make it last year.

Hey Rick,

Glad to see you two signed up. We missed you guys at the last one. Should be a lot of fun. Maybe we could "convoy" down?

This now bumps us up to 20 sites reserved so far for the Second Annual!

Greg

Add one more to the list...

Bob and Adonna will be there with the dominoes!

We'll be in site 50.

18

We are reserved in space 51. Coming in on Thursday the 4th and departing on Monday the 8th.

Driving from Canyon Country, California to your beautiful area to enjoy camping with new friends.

Space 51 is at the entrance, so we can waive as you enter and leave.. We'll have Jerry with us, as usual. (our cat). He loves camping and our Casita.

We also love to play Dominoes, and Sequence.

See you all there at the Taidnapam Campground.

Carol, Jim and Jerry

Wowzers, with Carol and Jim, I believe that makes 23. We would have out grown the group camp which only has 22 sites. This is going to be a lot of fun.

Okay, we have reserved site 52. We hope that nothing comes up this time to keep us from coming. We look forward to seeing everyone and have been practicing our train and sequence.

Site #37: for the 5th & 6th

Ann, Bill & the pups (Julie & Samantha)

Greg, sounds like a fun idea to convoy, let' do it!

We had to wait before reserving a spot so we are "out there." Same problem with the Oregon get together. We just made reservations at Bullards and ended up in the "C" area. Hopefully, we can reserve a lot earlier next year!!!

Rick

Hi Rick,

Well, hopefully we can get together before then, maybe meet for a beer or lunch sometime? (I think we talked about this before but if I remember, you had some family commitment to attend to and we never followed up it.) It would be fun to just get together and finally meet up anyway. Perhaps we could rendezvous someplace in Silverdale?

We'll also be at the Bullards Beach S.P. gathering too, (our second year). This year we'll be in site B-45.

Depending on where we are prior to the Bullards Beach trip, we may be heading there directly from our planned week or longer opal digging trip near Denio in northwestern Nevada. It depends when we go, and of course, when we leave there. Actual Nevada trip dates are still up in the air.

Greg

Hi Greg, I'll give you a phone call Wednesday to see if we can meet. Also, I would like to talk with you about "self protection" from the Casita Clun forum topic on door security. . .

Rick

Sounds good Rick. Until wednesday then...
Greg

So when will the list get updated? I know that at least two more including us have signed up but not on the list yet. We are looking forward to seeing everyone.

It will be updated as soon as Chris sends me a new list and map.

I'm cold and tired, when is summer getting here!?!?!?

Thanks Donna! The list and map are posted as the first posting on page 2. If there are any corrections or changes, please let me know.
~ Chris

Chris,

Charlene and Dennis will be in #10 with their yellow lab, Luna! Thanks

Sorry about playing musical campsites but Sue and I have moved from site 45 to site 36. We're looking forward to meeting you all.

Steve

Wes and Maggi Rudy - we just booked site #14. All the sites look terrific. Thanks Carol Upton for bringing this to our attention! We are already excited about this rally! Rocky is so very excited about playing with Jerry, he can't quit wagging his tail!

Hellooooooooooooo all you PNWers.
Simon & Sharen here, reporting in. We've endured more snow than this island has seen in 40 years, but we are well. And it's lookin' very much like a White Christmas.

Here's a couple of happy snaps of our wee cramper, tucked in the wooded part of our yard. And our home, barely seeable past the snow-laden deodars and fir.

Wishing you all safe, healthy and happy holidays.
Cheers from ccccchilly Whidbey Island...
Sharen & Simon

The way to shrink your pictures is to email them to yourself. Insert them into an email and you will get the message whether you want to shrink them. Say yes. Then when the email arrives, copy them into a file where you can find them. Look at the details now and you will see the pics drastically reduced in size. Then follow the standard method detailed elsewhere on this forum to include them in your post.

Good Luck and Merry Christmas.

Thanks Roger. As you can see from my snowy images above, I figured that out.
Cheers and Happy New Year!
Sharen

With all the flooding in this area, I'm wonderin what shape the place will be in for this event???

Our first-ever, and to this date, our only, official "get-together" with our Casita (bought in July, 2008) was last year's (first) WA state get-together at Fort Worden State Park.

When we saw this thread, I immediately started to reserve a site at Tiednapam(sp?), only to discover that we have a conflict ;-(

We are already signed up to take our first-ever cruise (Alaska) starting that same weekend! So, we will have to wait until 2010 for the third annual (I hope) Wa State get-together.

We had such a great time at Fort Worden that we really hate to miss this year's event.

We wish you all the best, and hope to see some of you at the northern and southern Oregon gatherings, where we are reserved and anxious to go!

Mike and Sandy in Tacoma, WA

Hi Mike,

Welcome. As a fellow "Casitan", (I picked mine up just one month before you did), I'm sure you are enjoying your new toy too.

I was just curious after reading your post, as to what WA State "get together" you were at up in Fort Warden SP last year?

We, (the group of us who attended the first annual WA State get-together,) held our "first annual" event at Grayland Beach SP in Grayland, down near Westport on the coast. This was held back in last September. All of us who were there had a great time and we are all looking forward to our second annual trip to Taidnapam Park.

While I also certainly enjoy Fort Warden as well, having been there many times over the years, we (the group) have not yet ever held a "WA State" get-together there yet. It was a nominated site, among several other suggested sites which we had originally considered, but then, by group consensus, we all finally agreed to hold it at Grayland SP.

Sorry you have a scheduling conflict for the Taidnapum rally and won't be able to make it. We have almost tripled the number of people signed up for this one over last year, and I'm sure we'll have a good time again. Perhaps we'll see you at one of the upcoming Oregon rallies at least. If things change, please feel free to join us!

Greg

Just a fast hi to all, and to say we'll be in site 33 thursday through Sunday - with the two cars, Adonna!
cheers
Vicki and Ian

With all the flooding in this area, I'm wonderin what shape the place will be in for this event???

They should be ok by June.. I havent heard how bad or what the situation is on the flooding that way... I know Morton got hit pretty bad with the snow, building collaps etc..... The park is by the Cowlitz river tho.... I believe they have pretty well finished up the 'newer sites' but it does say 'restriction' so dont know whats with that.... Looks like a pretty 'full' house for June!!!
I can always call the park and find out ...

That's a nice offer Christi, but this June event is still five months out. May should wait and see if we hear any news? The parks people probably couldn't give you much information right now anyway. Even if it was completely flooded, they'll probably work hard to get it back into shape for summer camping.

These issues can take months to resolve. I remember a coupla years ago when Howard Miller Steelhead State Park (on the Skagit, hwy 20 east) got wiped out, MANY members of an American Car Club I belong to (J.J. Cruisers from Sedro) combined forces and built a new play area for the kids and did 2 days worth of 'grunt work' in an effort to get the park back up on its feet. The first year after the park reopened, it still wasn't 'much'. It took almost a full 18 months for gov't fundage to kick in and provide some more relief!! Good news is NOW that park is better than ever....

I am confident "our rangers' will have everything cleaned up and open, along with the volunteers..... 5 months is away yet.... I might just take a drive up there for one of my sunday drives anyways in the spring .. March or April.. maybe...

they also hire the 'correctional facility work program people' to come clean up too in the parks.. in other words the 'chain gang' lol

Rick and Chris from Centralia will be in site 32 arriving on Friday with SHAULA their Casita 17.

Hi all,

Well, it seems we are still growing! I now count 28 spaces reserved so far. If memory serves me correctly, I believe we only had a dozen spaces booked for our first get-together last September.

For the next "update" of the Master List (on page #2, post #16), please include Doug M. (ref. post 23) in Space #18, who has slipped through the cracks on the list, as well as our latest signed up attendees, Rick and Chris in Space #32.

Let's see if we can break 30 sites this year!

Greg