DRuZer
Member
Hey troops,
As you probably know, this ride is a two day event, where DS riders meet up with the street riders at a predetermined camping area for dinner and socializing on Saturday night, then a Sunday morning breakfast and the ride back home, usually with options.
What makes this ride really appealing (especially with the dirtier riders from the lower mainland) is that for the $50 entry fee, your camping gear (and small cooler), if transported to the GV clubhouse before Saturday morning, is delivered to the meeting place.
In the past, it has been places like Boston Bar, Lillooet, or Tulameen. Sunday's options have included the Whipsaw, Caroline mines or Spius forest service road.
This year, the meeting place will be at Canyon Alpine in Boston Bar (rooms are available for those that don't do camping).
As those of you who have done this ride before realize, there really isn't an interesting a route out of the lower mainland. It involves lots of asphalt up to Harrison lake, up the east side and over the Kookipi pass, down a fast loose gravel road along the Nahatlatch to Keefers, then down to the ferry at Boston Bar. This is option A (natch, the interior riders are a different issue...)
Option B is that we (DS riders) get their own camping gear up to Boston Bar by early Saturday morning, and do a couple hundred km's loop before the evening's festivities. Then Sunday, do another, shorter loop before pointing ourselves homeward.
Any questions, comments?
In case I've left any doubt of my bias, I like option B (but then, I might just take
Friday off and ride up anyways....)
What say you???
A decision will have to be made soon, so please post before next Tuesday.
Thanks
Guy
As you probably know, this ride is a two day event, where DS riders meet up with the street riders at a predetermined camping area for dinner and socializing on Saturday night, then a Sunday morning breakfast and the ride back home, usually with options.
What makes this ride really appealing (especially with the dirtier riders from the lower mainland) is that for the $50 entry fee, your camping gear (and small cooler), if transported to the GV clubhouse before Saturday morning, is delivered to the meeting place.
In the past, it has been places like Boston Bar, Lillooet, or Tulameen. Sunday's options have included the Whipsaw, Caroline mines or Spius forest service road.
This year, the meeting place will be at Canyon Alpine in Boston Bar (rooms are available for those that don't do camping).
As those of you who have done this ride before realize, there really isn't an interesting a route out of the lower mainland. It involves lots of asphalt up to Harrison lake, up the east side and over the Kookipi pass, down a fast loose gravel road along the Nahatlatch to Keefers, then down to the ferry at Boston Bar. This is option A (natch, the interior riders are a different issue...)
Option B is that we (DS riders) get their own camping gear up to Boston Bar by early Saturday morning, and do a couple hundred km's loop before the evening's festivities. Then Sunday, do another, shorter loop before pointing ourselves homeward.
Any questions, comments?
In case I've left any doubt of my bias, I like option B (but then, I might just take
Friday off and ride up anyways....)
What say you???
A decision will have to be made soon, so please post before next Tuesday.
Thanks
Guy
