I started bringing up ideas over at LINXC.com to gauge interest, now I bring them here to see what you guys think..
Obviously feel free to suggest ideas as well.
Nothing is set at all, Just gauging interest in particular events..
1. Indoor Rock Climbing on Long Island (about 40 minutes from Manhattan right off of LIE)
Basically have a member sign up, and I'll make a reservation for however many people interested. We'll probably get a discount.
They will give everyone a course on how to tie yourself in for climbing, and how to Belay (anchor for person climbing). You can rent out climbing shoes, and the harness..
They have over 59 different ropes set up already for climbing. And they have a seperate Bouldering area, in addition to a large area with tables to chill out at..
After we're bored with Rock climbing, we can hit a local restaurant/bar.
If people want to crash overnight, we can get a campsite or there are tons of hotels off LIE as well..
And we can do some local offroading trails on sunday or whatever..
2. Long Island Beach day (Fishing, Beach wheeling, BBQ, etc).
I have to figure out exactly where out-of-towners can drive on the beach legally for a weekend, etc.. The place I was hoping to use may be closed due to errosion. ugh..
Pretty much a weekend of camping, light beach wheeling, fishing, and BBQ. And camping close to the beach in tents, or sleeping in your truck on the beach. (No tents are allowed on the beach)..
3.. Xcentrk (Brandon) and I have been scouting trails, and we have found a bunch of light wheeling trails to play on. And they are only as difficult as you want them to be. Everything had bypasses, so far.. Nothing that will break your truck, just fun light wheeling for a day or weekend..
Still working on where exactly would be the best area, depending on the number of trucks involved..
4. May 20th/21st, Long Island Lighthouse challenge.
http://www.longislandlighthouses.com/challenge.htm
It's like an 'Amazing Race' kinda thing to check out all of the lighthouses on long island in a weekend.
At each of the lighthouses you receive a souvenir to signify that you went there. There is a fixed amount of lighthouses to check out over the weekend. And there are raffles and crap.
Here's an FAQ for it.
http://www.longislandlighthouses.com/challenge.htm#FAQs
Several of us were planning on attending this.. It could be a good way for you 'upstaters' to explorer most of long island in a weekend of insane driving.
5..We could always take the trucks into manhattan. But I think parking would be a bitch.. Might be an idea though..
Any suggestions, comments, ideas??
Thanks!