Finally got around to getting registered.

I'll try the Peace lodge again. The dim lights and "in the living room" feel would be shame to have to give up, not to mention the superior accoustics in the cabin common room.

I hate the bright lights and the lousy accoustics in the old dining hall. Works OK for the concert with the pa system, but No sense of intimacy at all, which is what I like best about the late night song circles in the Peace cabin. As I well know from manning the auction during workshops, the least little private conversation is disruptive in that remarkably accousticly challenged space if it is not packed with people and a PA. It is not a place where some one who might be a bit timid about offering a song in a less cozy setting is likely to be comfortable doing so. Also not a space where people might actually start building relationships.

A suggestion, fwiw. It seems, between the succession of workshops during the day and the nearly until dawn song circle in the evenings, the common room in the Peace lodge has music going close to around the clock. Even those of us prone to stay up waaay too late need at least some sleep. If some folks have opted out of Peace for sleep during the day, what about moving some of the daytime workshops a little further down the line of cabins so that workshops are not scheduled in the Peace lodge until after lunch? I was not aware there are unheated cabins at West River, but in early October, the chances are slim to none that an unheated common room in any of the cabins is going to be excessively chilly.

I sleep like a log (not to mention snore like a chainsaw)and the sound, night-time or daytime has not been the reason I opted out of staying in the Peace lodge the past 2 years. One of two reasons I have opted out of staying in the Peace lodge the last couple of years, however, is it is impossible to get to my room or the shower during the day with out disrupting packed workshops that occur back-to-back and require impeccable timing on my part to get into and out of my room or the bathroom there between workshops.