"This was Alpensee's first-ever organized event as an incipient group, and I was both seneschal *and* autocrat...if I'd had it to do over again, it definitely would not have been scheduled for Mothers' Day, but at the time I was pretty clueless regarding getting dates on the calendar and so forth. I got an awful lot of help from co-autocrat Lysander Griffing (who unfortunately does not play SCA any more). I think Lysander really did 5 times as much of the actual "work" on it as I did.
"The actual site was the Echo Summit "Sno-park" off Highway 50, just before it goes over the summit to the Tahoe basin. The weather was clear but windy, and very very COLD. We had a pretty cool (no pun intended) array of activities planned, up to and including sledding on shields (didn't get to try that one) and "snow enemy" building followed by "snow enemy" slaying. This was probably the closest we'll ever get to actually shooting arrows at a human being - it was a great deal of fun, snowmen make excellent targets! Two types of stew were available for the populace, one lamb and one vegetarian - we made waaaay too much and I had leftover stew in my freezer for months afterwards (it also didn't help that some of folks *brought* food - oh, well). A splendid time was had by all, and I know I learned a lot for the next time." -- George of Berwick
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