Searles Lake Gem and Mineral Society
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- 2010 Show for dates and times
What's New for 2010 Show
1. After talking
with many people during the Pink
Halite Field Trip, we will
again allow standard size vehicles to park
along the roads during this
field trip. But because these roads are VERY
narrow, OVERSIZE
VEHICLES WILL BE PROHIBITED FROM PARKING ADJACENT
TO THE COLLECTING AREA. Oversize vehicles will
only be allowed to
park in the parking lot on the north side of
the collecting area.
Furthermore, oversize vehicles may only drive
down these roads to
pickup collectors, tools and specimens after
12:45 p.m., after many of the
collectors have left and congestion has been
reduced.
2. Parking During Pink
Halite Field Trip - By allowing parking on the side
of
roads in the pink halite area, we will be
increasing congestion on these roads.
Therefore, we require the following from people
parking on these roads
a. YOU MUST NOT BLOCK
THESE ROADS. You must
park as far to
the right hand
side of the road as possible.
b. ONE WAY ROADS. Roads will be one way only
(they will be posted)
c. The intersection
where the two field trip lines of cars join WILL BE
CONGESTED. BE CAREFUL. WE DON'T WANT ACCIDENTS.
3. Field
Trip Parking at Show Building.
We had the
largest field trips ever in 2009
with over 500 cars on the blowhole field
trip. While
we have no problem accomodating
this number of cars in the collecting
areas (the Company provides very
large lots on the
salt flats for parking), we do have a
problem with the small lots at
the show building.
To provide more
parking at the
show building in 2010, we will expand both the
reoriented
south lot (Lot B) and the
north lot (Lot A). This will increse the size
of the lots
by about 75 cars. The parking layout can be found at the
General Information
-Lake Field Trips Page.
4. Port-a-potties at show building. In
2009 it was clear (from an after-show inspection) that
4 port-a-potties, an handicap
port-a-potty and 3 additional women's fluch toilets at the show
building
was still not enough. For 2010 we
will add two more pot-a-potties.
5. Field trip
supplies in General Store.
In 2009 our General Store again ran out of nearly
everything, despite increasing inventories by
up to 50%. We are sorry that we let some of you
down again. Our goal is to not run out of any
field trip supplies, especially bottles of brine.
For 2009 we filled over 1,200 bottles
with brine yet all were gone in little more than 6 hours.
6. In
2010 we will offer brine bottle filling during the Mud Field Trip in
addition to selling bottles of brine at the
General Store. The price for brine in the General
Store will be $2.00 for 1 gallon
and 4 liter bottles, $1.00 for 2 liter and 2 quart bottles.
During the Mud Field Trip, we will have
1 gallon bottles (with labels) for $1.50 - you fill.
During the Mud Field Trip, you can fill your own 1 gallon bottle
for $1.00, but your
bottles must have no labels, you will
have to put on one of our brine labels and again,
you fill. Large containers can also be
filled at the price of $1.00 per gallon of container.
Our current plan to to have 10 fill
spigots so there should be little waiting.
7. Cell
Phone Service. As some of you learned this
year, Trona now
has cell phone service.
However, it is limited to Verizon and
Sprint
phones only. I know for certain that an ATT
cell phone does not work with the Trona
cell phone
tower, even the roaming mode doesn't work.
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Searles Lake Gem and Mineral Society
P. O. Box 966
Trona, CA 93592-0966
Phone (760) 372-5356
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