Sad news
 

The moderator team wishes to announce the passing of Mike Speegle,
skier and RSAM moderator, on Thursday the 24th of July. Mike was a
very personable fellow and a friend and skiing buddy who will be
missed. He is now skiing in light. Memorial donations in his name may
be made to The Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth, 8101 East
Dartmouth Ave., #11, Denver, CO 80231, www.shaka.org, and all are
encouraged to ski a run in his honor at the earliest opportunity.

http://homepage.mac.com/saemisch/A-B...kesLastRun.jpg

See you on the next lap, Mike.

Geez, what happened? I searched all through Colorado for obit
information and couldn't find anything. Mike, you'll be missed...

bdubya said:

The moderator team wishes to announce the passing of Mike Speegle,
skier and RSAM moderator, on Thursday the 24th of July. Mike was a
very personable fellow and a friend and skiing buddy who will be
missed. He is now skiing in light. Memorial donations in his name may
be made to The Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth, 8101 East
Dartmouth Ave., #11, Denver, CO 80231, www.shaka.org, and all are
encouraged to ski a run in his honor at the earliest opportunity.

http://homepage.mac.com/saemisch/A-B...kesLastRun.jpg

See you on the next lap, Mike.

Geez, this is horrible! I'm *so* sorry to hear. All my condolances to the
family, and to us here on RSAM. He will be so very missed. Words would fail
to convey the respect I held for Mike.

This sucks.

Bob

bdubya wrote:

The moderator team wishes to announce the passing of Mike Speegle,
skier and RSAM moderator, on Thursday the 24th of July. Mike was a
very personable fellow and a friend and skiing buddy who will be
missed. He is now skiing in light. Memorial donations in his name may
be made to The Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth, 8101 East
Dartmouth Ave., #11, Denver, CO 80231, www.shaka.org, and all are
encouraged to ski a run in his honor at the earliest opportunity.

http://homepage.mac.com/saemisch/A-B...kesLastRun.jpg

See you on the next lap, Mike.

I posted a message yesterday, but it hasn't made it through the
moderation process. In the fullest respect for a man I never
met, I hiked to the top of the basin. I thought of him for most
of my hike to the top. I was lucky enough to have talked to him on the
phone
about 7 some odd months ago. I plan on posting the pictures of
my summer A-Basin hike, as I feel this is the very minimum of
respect I could display for Mike.

I will also be posting this seperately to the sci.space.* news groups
that led me to the rec.skiing.* groups that he help me find.
The sci.space.* newsgroups should know.

BW, thanks for letting us know. I had not seen any posts from
Mike in a few weeks. This explains a great deal.

Sam "I will forever miss Mikes posts in sci.space.* & rec.skiing.*"
Seiber

Bob Lee wrote:
bdubya said:

The moderator team wishes to announce the passing of Mike Speegle,
skier and RSAM moderator, on Thursday the 24th of July. Mike was a
very personable fellow and a friend and skiing buddy who will be
missed. He is now skiing in light. Memorial donations in his name may
be made to The Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth, 8101 East
Dartmouth Ave., #11, Denver, CO 80231, www.shaka.org, and all are
encouraged to ski a run in his honor at the earliest opportunity.

http://homepage.mac.com/saemisch/A-B...kesLastRun.jpg

See you on the next lap, Mike.

Geez, this is horrible! I'm *so* sorry to hear. All my condolances to the
family, and to us here on RSAM. He will be so very missed. Words would fail
to convey the respect I held for Mike.

This sucks.

My appologies for the "me too" post, but ME TOO.

We'll miss you Mike.

--
//-Walt
// Seerch-a zee veb:
// http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=xx-bork

bdubya wrote:

The moderator team wishes to announce the passing of Mike Speegle,
skier and RSAM moderator, on Thursday the 24th of July. Mike was a
very personable fellow and a friend and skiing buddy who will be
missed. He is now skiing in light. Memorial donations in his name may
be made to The Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth, 8101 East
Dartmouth Ave., #11, Denver, CO 80231, www.shaka.org, and all are
encouraged to ski a run in his honor at the earliest opportunity.

About 11 weeks from now, at Loveland. I will log a lap for him then.


http://homepage.mac.com/saemisch/A-B...kesLastRun.jpg

See you on the next lap, Mike.

Sadly I never met the man. That would explain why I havn't seen
any posts from him in the ski & space science news groups in a while.

I am adding two space newsgroups that he posted to, as they
would probably like to know. It was through his posting in the
space newsgroups I found the skiing newsgroups.

I really don't know what else to say right now.

Sam

bdubya wrote in
:

The moderator team wishes to announce the passing of Mike Speegle,
skier and RSAM moderator, on Thursday the 24th of July. Mike was a
very personable fellow and a friend and skiing buddy who will be
missed. He is now skiing in light. Memorial donations in his name may
be made to The Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth, 8101 East
Dartmouth Ave., #11, Denver, CO 80231, www.shaka.org, and all are
encouraged to ski a run in his honor at the earliest opportunity.

http://homepage.mac.com/saemisch/A-B...kesLastRun.jpg

See you on the next lap, Mike.


I did not know him directly either. I also enjoyed his posts. Makes me
feel good that some of us were able to meet each other earlier this
year...

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On 12 Aug 2003 22:25:00 GMT, Chester Bullock
wrote:

bdubya wrote in
:

The moderator team wishes to announce the passing of Mike Speegle,
skier and RSAM moderator, on Thursday the 24th of July. Mike was a
very personable fellow and a friend and skiing buddy who will be
missed. He is now skiing in light. Memorial donations in his name may
be made to The Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth, 8101 East
Dartmouth Ave., #11, Denver, CO 80231, www.shaka.org, and all are
encouraged to ski a run in his honor at the earliest opportunity.

http://homepage.mac.com/saemisch/A-B...kesLastRun.jpg

See you on the next lap, Mike.


I did not know him directly either. I also enjoyed his posts. Makes me
feel good that some of us were able to meet each other earlier this
year...

Ditto. Speegle had another engagment on the 17 of May for
the Tan-O-Rama A-Basin RSA invasion, and so was unable to
make it. Shame that we did not have a chance to cross paths
in person.

Rest in peace fellow RSA poster, and may a pair of freshly
waxed straight skis line your side forever as a reminder of
all the great and worthwhile moments of your life - on and
off the slopes.

Your posts will be missed.

nate

bdubya wrote in
:

The moderator team wishes to announce the passing of Mike Speegle,
skier and RSAM moderator, on Thursday the 24th of July. Mike was a
very personable fellow and a friend and skiing buddy who will be
missed. He is now skiing in light. Memorial donations in his name may
be made to The Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth, 8101 East
Dartmouth Ave., #11, Denver, CO 80231, www.shaka.org, and all are
encouraged to ski a run in his honor at the earliest opportunity.

http://homepage.mac.com/saemisch/A-B...kesLastRun.jpg

See you on the next lap, Mike.


Geez, you come back after a few days away to something like this! My
condolences to the family and friends. I will miss his posts too. Anyone
know what happened. I never got the impression that Mike was all that
old. Just goes to show you that we all must be ready to go at any time.
I'll ski a run here in PA in December when the slopes open in his honor.
We'll miss you Mike.