Labor Day Hat 2010!

We would like to invite all of you to join us this Labor Day weekend, Sept. 3-6, for the 15th Annual SKA Brewing Durango Hat. The ultimate happens on Saturday and Sunday, the 4th and 5th, but if you don’t come early or stay late, you are doing yourself a disservice.  The party actually starts with Thursday night pick-up, followed by dinner and one of Durango’s 100 restaurants, then pint night.

Friday we will be mountainbiking, tubing the Animas River through town, rock climbing, or playing discgolf or road biking.  At 4:30 we gather at the top of the ski hill in town to launch.  Launching is basically hucking a disc off the top of a hill or cliffand then marveling as it soars and dips through the air, sometimes for more thana minute.  Nobody has ever hit the road from the top of our hill, although several have made the parking lot, so there is a free disc for the first to accomplish that.  After you throw, you hike down the hill and retrieve all the discs.  After launching we head to the fields for some pick-up at 6:00 (map to Riverview), which will turninto night disc with the full flashflight set up.  Then we grab some food, pick-up the kegs and head out to the campsite.  Big bonfire, music, smores, beer, dancing.

Saturday morning you show up at the fields (map to Riverview) between 8:30 and 9:30 to coffee from Durango Joe’s, pastries from Bread, and more field food than you have ever imagined.  We get everybody registered by 10, then have yoga circle and opening ceremonies.  We announce teams and colors and everybody gets a shirt of their team’s color plus a disc.  Games start at 10:30am! After ultimate we head to the SKA Brewing World Headquarters for dinner by Zia’s Taqueria (50% more food per person than last year), $1 SKA beers all night long, a dessert bar, and karaoke and dance contests.  After we finish at SKA, we headback to the campground for the after party (see Friday night +).

Sunday morning show up at the fields for a pancake breakfast. Pre-quarters, quarters, semis,finals, award ceremony, closing ceremonies, disc games at the fields (last year we had a 2.5 hour game of milk jug) then go out for food and some bar-hopping, orhit the hot springs and a slightly quieter night at the campground, although wewill have a keg there on Sunday night as well. Monday is more of the same from Friday, then drive home, or stick around for another night with burger night, trivia, meditation group, salsa dancing, or a poker tournament as some of thepossible Monday evening options. You’re welcome to stay as long as you want actually, with several free camping options and plenty of outdoor and indoor fun stuff to do.

We will have 2 camping options this year, with the quiet campground being Hermosa Creek (map!), which is where everybody has camped in years past. The party campground will be on BLM land east of town (‘nother map!) just past mile marker 97, which is where we partied for the Durango Invitational.

Early registration is currently available at www.southwestultimate.com (or in the upper-right hand corner of this page!), save some $, the price will go up as soon as the first 120 people have registered.  Anybody who brings their own keg gets to play for free, as long as you let meknow at least 2 days in advance.

I am also working on hiring buses to drive players from the following locations: 1) Front Range  2) ABQ/Santa Fe  3) Tucson/Phoenix  4) Flagstaff
If you know anybody who owns a bus in one of those locations, put them in touch with me, there will be something in it for you for helping to broker the deal.

Trent
www.southwestultimate.com