Catalina Campout Information

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10th Annual Catalina Campout

DATE: September 23 - 25, 2005

LOCATION: Two Harbors campground, Catalina

SCHEDULE: First run is 6:30 Friday. 2nd run 2:00 PM Saturday. 3rd run 10:00 AM Sunday. Only other scheduled event is Saturday night's catered dinner. Some people go SCUBA diving Saturday morning, and if someone wants to arrange it (contact Dinged-Up or Cream Puff if you do) there will be a SCUBA hash Saturday AM.

TO SIGN UP: download the registration form, fill it out, and write a check for $69.69 made out to to Doug "Cream Puff" Morris and send it all to:

Doug "Cream Puff" Morris
226 6th Avenue
Venice CA 90291

GENERAL INFO: Catalina is an island 26 miles off of Los Angeles. There are two towns there. We will be in Two Harbors, which is a very small place on the west end of the island. It has two restaurants, two bars, one dive shop, one bread-and-breakfast with 13 rooms (booked up by non-hashers long ago), one general store, and one campground. One family--the descendents of Doug Bombard--used to own everything, but in 1998 they sold out to the Santa Catalina Island Company.

Boats are the only way to get there. Ferries leave from San Pedro and Marina del Rey:

Catalina Express
Berth 95
San Pedro, CA 90731
Tel: 310 519-1212
Tol Free Tel: 800 618-5533
e-mail: mail@catalinaexpress.com
Website: http://www.catalinaexpress.com

Catalina-Marina Del Rey Flyer
13763 Fiji Way, Terminal Bldg.
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
Tel: 310 305-7250
Tol Free Tel: 888 66-FERRY
e-mail:info@catalinaferries.com
Website: http://www.catalinaferries.com

(Actually you can take a helicopter for $144.00 RT. See http://www.islandexpress.com/flight.html)

Go to www.catalina.com other general info.

Accomodation choices are only the campsite or someone's private boat. Usually a fair number of hashers bring their own boats over and sleep aboard.

Cost for the weekend is $69.69 including beer, Saturday dinner, t-shirt and other giveaways, and munchies. You are own your own to get there and for food the other times.

Two Harbors Services does provide transportation for your gear from the ferry to the campsite. You have to walk yourself, but it's only a quarter mile or so.