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Mephit Fur Meet 2026 Cancelled

Ahmar WolfLeave a comment

I really hate reporting this, it was awful when their hotel suddenly cancelled with literally 3 weeks to the convention. I really give it to all the hard work that staff to find a location.

Taken directly from their site https://www.mephitfurmeet.org/

Dear MFM Family,

We have some sad news to share with you. We need to postpone Mephit Fur Meet this year.

Since Thursday we’ve done the following things:

Made 132 phone calls to different venues
Actually had conversations with 73 different hotels across Tennessee and Mississippi
Had three hotels go from “yes we can host you” to “oh wait, no we can’t” after we told them we wanted to move forward
We’ve done everything we can do. Labor Day weekend is a very busy weekend in the Memphis area, and it shows. Every hotel around is full.

The poll last night was very close, with a tight mix between “postpone until 2027” and “try to have a mini Memphit.” (A virtual event was not that popular.) Since it was close we made even more phone calls this morning to try to find a place in cities further away, but even those came up empty.

We’ll have details coming up in a few days about how we’re going to handle memberships. We need to decide what to do with our systems to make that possible. (We’ll quickly need to add something new.)

We are going to extend the deadline for requesting a refund to this weekend if you would rather have a refund than rolling over to MFM 2027. We want to be transparent with our family that most of our funds have been tied up in prep for 2026, so we’d much prefer it if folks would roll over to 2027, but we’ll work with you.

We know this is going to have a financial impact on some of our attendees, and we’re really sorry. This is very frustrating for us, too. (Some of our directors and staffers are dealing with flights that aren’t refundable, too.) We’re really unhappy that we’ve had to make this decision, none of us wanted this.

We hope to see you back in 2027 for our big furry family reunion.

With exhaustion of everything,
Alex, Blue, Bunny, Goliath, and Tyger

Furry Ski Weekend Cancelled

Ahmar Wolf1 Comment

We’ve got bad news for you, I’m afraid. Due to dramatically low interest we’re canceling FSW 2026.

We had hoped that officially taking a year off would give people the space and time they needed for their love of FSW to rekindle, but sadly it wasn’t enough. We understand what we’re up against isn’t a lack of enjoyment or desire, but an issue we’ve been running from for years that has finally caught up with us: cost. We’ve long provided an elevated experience – and certainly in more ways than just accommodations – but it’s those accommodations that are the overwhelming majority of our costs (~80%) and the source of almost all our price increases.

And for as high as our proposed costs were this year, know that we fought to provide you a more affordable experience by negotiating 1/3 off the rental cost (and it was almost $1000/person >.<). Over the years the value of the houses have tripled, and so did the prices, though I doubt many of you saw your incomes triple in that time.

Lift tickets also dramatically increased in price over the years, and we’re unable to offer them at a discount until we reach a certain threshold of attendees, which we couldn’t do this year.

Overall, organizing FSW post-covid has become an arduous slog, and so between that, the rising costs, and waning interest, we no longer believe the FSW model is viable.

There’s a chance that we may pursue a new approach in the future. It is, after all, Furry SKI Weekend not Furry House Weekend, and bringing friends together, new and old, to share a blended experience of fursuiting and snow-sports is what we always wanted to give people. We would likely move to a model where we provide dates and locations where we’d be fursuit skiing, and invite others to join in if they wanted, deferring all details to them aside from the minimal coordination. Though this would address the cost and our cost in time and effort, there’s nothing about this that would differentiate us from some of the other furry ski events that have arisen and we’ve supported and fostered over the years. So there’s still much for us to ponder.

Even if this is the end of FSW, we’re fiercely proud of all we’ve accomplished as the first, and for a long time largest and (in our humble opinion) best, furry ski event in the world. We built new friendships, saw furs who met on our trips get married, made incredible videos and took countless incredible pictures. We were a furry event that interacted with the public back when that was much less common (And answered many “do you have sex in those” questions with a whispered but resounding, “Yeah. Why? Did you wanna hook up with me?”). We’ve been featured in news articles and weird sports books. In short, we made a small mark in the world while giving back to our community and our friends.

For all that we did to make the last 18 years possible, we can’t thank you enough. Without you we couldn’t have pooled our resources and gotten a big house to share. We couldn’t have filled the slopes with wild hoots, howls, and chitters as an unexplainable sea of animals flew over sunlit snow, making our fur and faces damn near glow with joy. And we couldn’t have made memories and friendships that will last us a lifetime.

If this is the end, it was an incredible run. We loved what we did and we love all of you. Be good. Be kind. Be unapologetically you.