GENERAL INFO:

Thank you for your interest in attending this year's Great Outdoor Beaver Meeting. Glad to hear from you. I love hearing from other A.A.'s desiring to make their first trek to Beaver as I did about a dozen years ago or Sober members of our Fellowship returning to this unique Campvention of Alcoholics Anonymous after a few years away.

Elsewhere on this site, please find the Registration Flyer (*available early April) for the 2009 Event to be held Thursday, September 3 through Sunday, September 6 during the Labor Day Weekend and my contact info if I can answer any specific questions for you. The Flyer also contains full contact info for the many Hotels, Motels and Campgrounds in and around Beaver, so you may plan ahead and make reservations for your stay.

The flyer is in an Adobe PDF format, so you will need to have the Adobe Reader already loaded on your computer to open, view and print. If you do not already possess this program, you may log on to www.adobe.com and download the FREE version available there for your use.

You have our permission to download, print and distribute as you see fit. Please feel free to spread the word, take flyers to the meetings you get to, and to give out my contact info to anyone interested.

The Great Outdoor Beaver Meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous is held every Labor Day Weekend in the beautiful alpine community of Beaver, Utah. The entire Campvention is staged outdoors a few miles up the canyon from the town at about 6,000 feet above sea level in a green valley surrounded by 11,000 foot high mountains. Beaver, Utah is located right on Interstate 15 about 500 miles from the Los Angeles area and about 3 hours north from Las Vegas, Nevada, or about 200 miles south of Salt Lake City, Utah. The area surrounding Beaver boasts National Forest land, lakes for fishing, hundreds of miles of hiking and ATV trails, State Park land, a National Monument at 10,000 feet above sea level, 2 spectacular National Parks (Bryce and Zion Canyon) and some of the most diverse and awe-inspiring countryside anywhere in the American West.

Festivities will begin this year on Thursday, September 3, 2009 in the late afternoon with meetings and continue through Sunday, September 6, 2009 around noon and include Speaker Meetings, Marathon Meetings, a Nature Hike and a bottomless cup of coffee. All of this and more for a modest registration fee of only $10.00 per person. Also planned are a highly unique Golf Tournament, a Community B-B-Q meal and a selection of Event T-Shirts and Sweatshirts at reasonable prices. Even the Motels and Campgrounds in town offer great rates and the entire Community seems to welcome us with open arms each and every Labor Day Weekend as if we were long-lost relatives coming back home for a Family Reunion.

If you are able to arrive in town early, you are welcome to be a part of the set-up crew on Thursday morning. We meet at the Beaver Canyon Campground (see flyer for address) a little after 9 am local time (MST) or at the Racetrack at about 11 am. If other areas of service are more to your liking, we always need assistance with Registration, Commemorative Sales, and making and serving the FREE Coffee that we serve throughout the Campvention. You are welcome to be of service in any manner that is good for you. I can offer you more info on that as we get closer to the Event.

We even have a California Planning Committee that meets once each month from February through August at various locations across Southern California to help plan the Event. There is also a Utah Planning Committee that meets in Beaver. As these dates are calendared, I can forward the info to you. You are welcome to join the Committee if you like and help to plan the Event.

Again, please download and print the attached flyer. (*Available early April)

Please contact me if you have further questions regarding the Campvention itself or the surrounding area of Southern Utah. I travel there from Southern California about five times each year and can clue you in on some really great things to do on your vacation days before, during and after this awesome Sober Event. And, please make sure you check in and say hello after you arrive. Other than during the Nature Hike on Friday morning, I will likely be in the Registration and Souvenir Sales areas most of the weekend.

Each year, about 600 of us descend upon the town of Beaver, Utah to share our Sobriety and our experience, strength and hope with each other. I certainly encourage you to consider the possibility of trudging the road this year and joining us over Labor Day Weekend. It will be an experience you will not soon forget.

Thank you for letting me be of service.

- Joe C.
Cell: 213-792-7715
Los Angeles, California
2009 Planning Committee
The Great Outdoor Beaver Meeting

(*) - Registration Flyers will be available for download each year by April 1.
Phone number contact information Flyer available for download today.