Lake Powell 2023

Hi Powellers! We wanted to put together a link for some easy answers to common questions.

(We have a few food allergies on boat: Lisa - Red pepper, Cayenne pepper & Paprika / Ava -Walnuts, tree nuts)

Lisa, Mark, Gavin, Maddy, Ava and Randi - Leaving our house at 11:30am on Friday 6/23
Chris, Aneyda, Aden, Dany and Dallas - Driving straight to Page Friday Morning (goal to arrive before 7pm)
Rob, Julie, Gavin, Ian and Peyton - Will be in Page by 7pm on Friday
Tom, Sandy and Payton - Driving 1/2 way on Thursday... staying with Schneiders
McKenna and Jahazie - Leaving San Diego Friday morning... driving straight to Page.

Beach towels
Shower towels
Sunscreen- don’t forget ! No store anymore
All fluids booze, non booze - including seltzers, sodas, juice, milk, etc.
Refillable water bottle (Boat has 16 - 5 gallon water bottles)
Bedding (sheets, pillows, blankies, eye mask, ear plugs...lol)
Air mattress for kiddies
Folding chair for the beach
Handheld Umbrellas for beach chair sun protection
Extra pair of flip flops ( the mud sometimes breaks them)
Warm clothes for the evening…. Here is the weather.... unusually cool at night (low of 58-68 showing on the ap now)

Once we get to the lot we will take a quick tour and then start unloading :). Everyone helps until everything is unloaded AND put away. Tips:

Lisa, Ava, Sandy and Julie will be in charge of putting away all the food in the 3 refrigerator/freezers
Bring all food to the downstairs kitchen... the ladies may ask you to take certain things to the upstairs frige
Put your personal items in your room until everything else is done
Bring 1 case of each of your beer type upstairs and put by the big white cooler. Extra beer goes under the downstairs helm (there is a secret door)
Wine and bottled drinks typically go to the right of the living room TV on the floor
Put 1 case of your seltzer drinks by the white cooler and they will go in a cooler from the kitchen once unloaded
We will have 1 more cooler upstairs for non alcohol drinks like soda, gatorade, etc... just load with what you will drink in a day
Put all extra soda, seltzers, etc... under the bar upstairs... once full, put it in the cabinet by the murphy bed upstairs
We can put 1 each of various booze bottle in the upstairs freezer. Meaning we only need 1 Titos in there at a time instead of 3-4 :)... just use whats there and then rotate your bottle in later.

We have a 7cu' and 14cu' freezer filled with about 30, 20 pound bags of ice. We also have 6 extra bags in each fridge / freezer (we will pull these and use for beer once we unload)
We have some blocks to start us off in the big white cooler
Once the top layer of ice from the big freezer is gone we will use that space to freeze jello shots
Before bed lets make sure we have a tin pan or 2 of water in the ice freezer. In the morning we can move these ice blocks to the beer, soda, seltzer coolers, add daily beers/drinks and top with ice
We usually open a bag and put in upstairs freezer for mixed drinks

Toilets... suuuuper important. If we don't do this the trip could end early or we might have to live with sewer smell for part of the trip! The showers suck up lake water and it goes right back in the lake... The sewage has tanks that once full... is a shit show.

Zero... and I mean no, none, nada poops in the upstairs toilet
Only poops, pee and toilet paper in the toilets ANYTHING else will clog them
Pee in the water as much as possible
If you pee in the toilet... let it rest for the next pee er or pooper
When flushing do not hold the flusher down longer than needed. If there are skid marks, use the brush... do not hold the flusher till its clean

There are 2 showers.... The Schneiders and Coplands (10 peeps) will use the one in the swan room and the rest of ya'll can use the other one
Try not to 1 time use cans or bottles in the upstairs fridge... we need the space for food :)
If the engines are running do not go near the swim step. Not just because of the props but because of the exhaust
If you are on an air mattress or foldout, please flatten and put your bed away once you are awake :)
Eat! Unless marked, everything is community property... you paid for it so eat it :).
We try to limit trash bags so the Dewitt boys will be crushing cans and any CRV bottles. We will have some fires so we will have some boxes for burnables. After you eat, scrap left over food off of your plate and put plate in da box.
Please pay attention to your cooking day. Some of the meals require thawing meat the day before or 4-5 hours before
You are free to take the SeaDoos but you must go in pairs unless you are just cruising around right in front of the houseboat. If you go out, tell someone where you are going and who you are taking.

We plan to stop at the local Super Walmart and buy basic fluids (beer, seltzers, Gatorade, etc). They have a huge selection of all food, drinks and snacks but DO NOT BUY HARD LIQUOR HERE.
If we have enough time we will stop at a local restaurant and eat dinner (We "could" eat on the boat but found after unloading its a late night to cook too).
Desert Diamond is stored here and they open the gates for us at 7pm. We will load the boat and sleep on the boat, in the lot... here is the video of the inside :).

We leave the lot at around 6:00am (there are 6 groups that requested 6:00... so we might go at 6 or 7)...Everyone needs to be up and off before they leave. We also need everything off the counters. Its a bumpy rough ride and stuff goes flying. They drive the houseboat to the marina and launch it for us
We follow and the Malibu and X-Star group will launch at a different ramp and meet the houseboat on the water
We typically start heading up lake around 9:30am
We can't tow the ski boats until we pass Antelope Marina or get through the "cut"
The Castle Rock Cut might be open is the water level gets high enough
Regardless of which way we go, we plan to meet The Hopkins at either Oak Canyon (mile 49 ish). The rough ETA is 4pm

X-Star heads home - 8am? (Chris, Aneyda, Aden, Dany, Dallas, McKenna and Jahazie)

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