By now everyone should have received a postcard from PALM announcing that PALM will not be mailing out applications this year. Instead you will be able to download the application from http://www.lmb.org/palm starting at noon January 12. Once again, we are doing this so that everyone will be able to get the PALM application at the same time and have an equal chance to get on PALM. We know that not everybody has internet access. We mailed out the postcard early so that riders that don't have internet access have time to make arrangements with friends or locate a public library with internet access. January 12 is a Thursday so libraries and post offices should be open. If you have friends on PALM, check to see if they received this postcard and realize that they will have to download the application from the PALM website.
Remember you only have to pay the registration fee right away (same as last year: $110 for participants 18 and above, $65 for participants 11 to 17, $55 for participants 10 and below.) You can add meals and bus rides any time before May 15. Please enclose the completed application page, the signed release page, and a business sized stamped self addressed envelope with your check or money order when you mail in your application. If you are riding with a group, try to get the whole group on the same application (ie in the same envelope). That way either everyone will be on the ride or everyone will not be on the ride. We would like everybody to be on PALM, but the size of the schools that we stay at forces a limit of 700 riders. Best of luck to all.
No white Christmas but winter is here for sure. I don't think I'm going to be able to get in a December bike ride. My vegetable garden has been put to bed. (I pulled the last carrots, beets, and parsnips at the beginning of December). I leave the flowers in the front of the house alone so that the birds can eat the thistles from the cone flowers and blacked eyed Susans. I got to see some finches in September/October but last week I got to see a pair of downy woodpeckers: all black and white and red. Pretty exciting for Detroit.
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Quick question. I noticed that all riders in a party should be submitted on a single form but the members of my party live in different households (even different states)and it won't be possible to get waiver signatures at time of application. Can the waiver signatures (and actual addresses of the riders) be submitted at a later date?
I noticed next year the ride does not start on Father's Day as usual.
Please include the signed waivers for everyone on the application when you mail it in. You can have your out of state people download the waiver from www.lmb.org/palm/files/PALMLiabilityWaiver.pdf, sign it, and email it to you now so that you can include the waiver signatures with the application on Jan 12. It's about 1.3 Mb so it will take a bit of time.
PALM is always the last full week of PALM, so that we don't finish on the Friday of the July 4 weekend. We end up using the later week for about 7 years, and then we are have to switch to the earlier week. So we should be able to avoid Father's Day for the next few years.
PALM is always the last full week of PALM, so that we don't finish on the Friday of the July 4 weekend. We end up using the later week for about 7 years, and then we are have to switch to the earlier week. So we should be able to avoid Father's Day for the next few years.
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