How about the weekend of October 26/27?
I went to Murphy's on Saturday afternoon and checked out some hotels.
Two choices:
The Murphy's Inn - A nice motel for about a hundred bucks a night that has rooms available on that week end and can accomodate 8 cars and who will set aside parking spots for us. $103/night.
http://www.centralsierralodging.com/cloud9_001.htm
The Dunbar House - A really nice Bed and Breakfast that is more like $230 a night. The Dunbar House.
http://www.dunbarhouse.com/html/rooms.htm
I checked for the last weekend in October (26/27?) and the Dunbar House will let us have the whole place, all 5 rooms, for $2400 for two nights (minimum)....this is a quite upscale Bed and Breakfast and includes the usual BnB amenities.....see link above.
Perhaps a combination of the two places? They are about a block and a half away from each other. The whole damned town is only about 8 blocks long.
Would anyone be interested in coming up Friday afternoon, do dinner, then the next morning drive over the mountain to Markleeville or something and then back for dinner in Murphy's - then leave for home Sunday morning after breakfast?
I am open to suggestions.....!