2023 WSTA Summer Rendezvous Agenda

[Trapper John]

Come One Come All it's going to be Another Great Event

If you missed the last couple of years you missed out on some great trapping Demo's, Speaker, food and camaraderie.
Come meet Ms. Washington Rodeo.  She will be there Friday evening only.

Eric has a great line-up of some great speakers and Demo's.
Bring the whole family, Mom, Dad, Wife, Kids, neighbor's kids.
Sooooooooooo Come One Come All
See you all there.
JC   


Annual Summer Rendezvous 2023
When:   August 11-13, 2023
Where: Chelan County Expo Center / Fairgrounds, Cashmere, Washington

Friday  August 11, 2023

1:00 pm      Rendezvous Gate Opens
         Check In ~ Vendors Set Up ~ Meet & Greet
* Come meet and talk with Ms Bailey Nachtigal ~ Miss Rodeo Washington 2023
She is only going to be there Friday
6:00 pm      * Pot Luck Dinner …….. Bring your favorite dish to share with all

** There are Trap Supply Vendors will be there too so grab your supplies Support these folks **

Saturday
7:30 - 8:30 am   Breakfast             The Kitchen Crew

9:00 am      * Opening Remarks from the Outgoing President ~ Bruce Vandervort
         * Election Results ~ President, Vice Presidents, Directors   
         * Trapper Training ~ Karen Parker & Ed Cunningham
* Demo’s Throughout the Day
         * Bobcats Trapping ~ Bill Largen
         * Beaver & Otter Trapper ~ Karen Parker & Chip Emmons
         * Coyote Cage Trapping for Science ~ Bill Foreyt
         * Trapping from a Female Perspective ~ Karen Parker
         * Idaho Wolf Trapping Experiences ~ Eric Degman
12:00 - 1:00 PM   Lunch will be served for a small fee      The Kitchen Crew
* Demo’s Continue throughout the Day
6:00 pm      DINNER  -  Pot Luck Dinner …….. Bring your favorite dish to share with all
7:30 pm   * Live Auction some great items to be taken at a good price. Camaraderie Time for sure

Sunday  August 14, 2022
8:00 am      Breakfast            The Kitchen Crew
9:00      * Board of Director Meeting ~ All Members Welcome
12:00      * Rendezvous comes to an end, Clean up (help appreciated) Many hands make light work for all

[Hannibal]

Myself and the little guy who lives upstairs will be there, unless we get arrested first.

[Humptulips]

Shawn Beling, DFW will be giving a talk about the Beaver Relocation Pilot Project Sunday morning. I think this can be a benefit to WCOs and the public standing of trapping in general.
I know a lot of people take off Saturday night but you might want to plan on hanging around to listen to her. She will speak just after breakfast.

[JakeLand]

I’ve had some people ask what the prices for admission, camping and food will be ?

[DishBogget]

For the WSTA Summer Rendezvous:

Admission:
Members - $20
Non-Members - $35
Children 17 & under - free

Meals:
There will be 2 breakfast and 1 lunch, $15 each
Children 17 & under are free

Potluck Friday and Saturday night - no charge but please bring your favorite dish to share

Camping:
RV - $25 per night
Tent- $15 per night

[Humptulips]

All of George Brady's cage trap inventory will be auctioned at the Rendezvous plus I think 10 dozen new KORO rodent traps. I believe there will be about 3 pickup loads of traps.

[Trapper John]

WOW   
Darryl picked up another real nice bunch of Raffle items 

I also pick up another "Wolf Trap" for our special raffle.  That one was a lot of fun last year, those limited tickets went fast.
So, grab a few extra $ bucks $ and save them for this raffle.


See you there .............. JC   

[Ric0]

Thank you everyone who helped put this together, and all the people who taught the demo's. I learned a lot. Thanks to all the vendors there. Good choices on the raffle items. The food was delicious as always. I'm looking forward to the trapper workshop this winter.   

[Trapper John]

I know you heard me say it before, but if you didn't go to this one you "Really Missed out."
 
The weather was fair, not to hot (high 80's to low 90's)
Demos and Speaker were great with some very interesting talks.  They gave a lot of their secretes away, too bad you weren't there to pick up on them.

The Food ...........WOW.........the potluck was great  and some of those dishes, I need the recipes.
Breakfast and Lunch, the gals working the kitchen always put their love into them.

The Raffle items, here again, great items.  And the auction itself had a lot of good stuff including a pile of traps from the George Brady Estate.

Vendors: they had everything you needed.  Scott Phillips came all the way up from Oregon.  Thank You Scott.

But the "Camaraderie"  alone was worth every penny to get there and see old friends and make new friends.

Plans are already being made for next year's 2024 WSTA Rendezvous. 
One of those plans is already locked in and that is we will have a Celebrity from the TV show "Mountain Men"  that has agreed to come to our rendezvous.
I can't say who he is, so you'll just have to watch the show and figure it out. Soooooooooooooo make your plans to attend.

JC