[TheForge] Speaking of age...

[Jerry Frost]

It's a thought Jerry.

The problem that's stopped the previous attempts at an 
Alaskan organization is distance. The Canadian border 
is about 600 miles from our place and the nearest town 
in Canada is Beaver Cr. Yukon Territories another 
75-100 miles or so. White Horse is the first "city" and 
an easy day's drive from the border.

At our last organizational meeting we had guys drive 9 
hrs. in BAD weather from Fairbanks and three guys 
pooled to come up from Kenai a 5 hr. drive in BAD 
weather. Fairbanks is about a 7 hr drive on a decent 
day and Kenai is a 3 hr. drive on a good day. We held 
the meeting in Talkeetna about 2 hrs. north of 
Anchorage and 1 hr. north of me to make it a little 
easier on the interior guys who wanted to attend.

We're probably going to set up on a regional basis with 
as loose an organization as law allows. There are guys 
who're interested but they live so remote they'll 
probably never attend a meeting. Phil and Jake the 
Russian for instance

http://www.galenavillageblacksmith.com/

They can be a "chapter" (or whatever we call sub groups 
of the club) and participate online. The internet and 
decent connections in the bush is what's likely to make 
this attempt at an Alaskan organization work.

As much as I'd love to see a large conference hosted in 
AK I don't think we'd get a big turn out.

Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. 
<grin>

Frosty
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From: "Jerry Smith" 
<jerry_smith at anvilsandinkstudios.com>


> Frosty,
>
> Have you looked to see if your Canadian Brothers next
> door have blacksmith association? You could always
> volunterr to hold CanIron 10 in Alaska :)
>
> Jerry
>