Ok, it's official, I signed my orders to fly back to the United States!
The war is going to be the weekend of the 19th/20th. I am seriously contemplating making it 2 (+a night) days instead of 1. The most likely course of action is that everyone drives down on Friday the 18th and camps out at my house. We will have a bonfire and fight night battles on Friday.
Saturday morning we will drive out to Umstead Park and scout out fighting locations. We will be driving in from the US 70/Umstead Parkway entrance. Specifically I want to look at Oak Rock Trail, Pott's Branch Trail, and Sycamore Trail. The first 2 are as close to parking as Dug Hill was. Sycamore Trail is very rugged and features some great hills and ridges. The creek itself is just wide enough to make crossing difficult, unless you find the right spots, and there are some great peninsulas we could defend. The water is clean and can be used for refilling. The same is true for Big Lake. We'll start fighting before lunchtime, with whatever game type we decide on, at whatever location (will narrow this down later).
http://www.ncparks.gov/Visit/parks/wium ... arkmap.pdf
We'll fight until dinner and then everyone can dry off and change and eat. We'll probably camp out at Umstead Saturday night. Sunday will be more fighting and then people are free to leave whenever, like at Downpour last year. I am not sure when all my local friends will be able to show up, I will work on those details over the next few weeks, but between everyone on the board, my brother, my sister, and my girlfriend we will have 10+ people even when my local friends aren't there.