The new board is listed on the Directors Page, which includes new board member Mike Rogerson.
Also, the date for the Holiday Party has been set to December 13, 2008- Francesco’s in Oakland off Hegenberger Road.
Warren has reserved the meeting campsite: Pine Glen Group Site #11 for Friday June 27 and 28th for those that want to ride in on Friday. He advises there are a number of people planning to arrive Friday.
The election meeting and dinner will be held at 5:00pm on Saturday in the Austria Hof restaurant located at 924 Canyon Blvd. in Mammoth Lakes.
Lee's trip- currently in Alaska is underway. He can be tracked by going to Findspot (password: alaska2008). Lee writes the following:
A good friend, Ron Browne, turned 60 this year and one of the things on his “bucket list” was a motorcycle trip through Alaska. I’ve been riding with Ron for many years and we’ve been on several extended rides. So, when he emailed and suggested this would be the year for us to get our gear together and head north (really north) it seemed like an idea whose time had come.
Ron and Carl (another friend) live in Ketchum, ID so lots of emails went back and forth as we started planning the ride. A few months of evaluating options resulted in our plan to meet in Bellingham, WA and take the Alaska ferry to Skagway, AK; tour through Alaska and then return by riding south through the Yukon, British Columbia and Alberta, then back to the U.S. through Idaho where they’ll head home and I would continue through Oregon and Nevada back the our golden state of California.
The plan was coming together when another rider, Wynne Benti, expressed her interest in the ride. So, there are four of us headed to Alaska; Wynne on her 2005 F650GS and Ron, Carl and I on 2007 R1200GS Adventures.
As part of our safety precautions, one of the new SPOT satellite messengers ( www.findmespot.com ) was acquired. It uses a satellite network to send emergency requests somewhat like a Personal Locator Beacon, but the additional features are why it was chosen instead of a PLB. The SPOT system has the capability to send “Check In” messages just to keep friends and loved ones updated on our progress. It also has a feature called “Track Progress”, sending GPS coordinates every 10 minutes which can be viewed on a personalized web page using Google Maps.
The plan is to send daily “Check-In” messages and to activate the “Track Progress” feature when we are riding through interesting areas. We’ll also send trip reports and photos when connectivity allows.
Lee Blake, Our Second Sunday Breakfast Chair is riding to Alaska. He's using a device called SPOT Satellite Messenger, that uses GPS to report his positions.
You can access his current reported location by going to:
Lee's Findmespot
Password: alaska2008
Lee departed on June 11th and will be back by July 4th (and in time for the next Second Sunday Breakfast).
I have installed the shop cart and the Range of Light and T-Shirts are the first items. Our payment gate is Google Checkout and they accept all major credit cards.
Hear excerpts from the June 4, 2008 Board Meeting held in Foster
City-
1. Tour Captain Warren reports on the upcoming June meeting in Mammoth and the plan for the July Meeting at Shasta Lake- Running time 3:30 (mp3):
Sunday, June, 8, 2008
at 7:45 AM
4775 Hacienda
Dr
Dublin, CA
94568
925-833-2521
Located in the
Hacienda Crossing Shopping Center across from the movie
theaters.
Followed by a short
ride thru the canyons
Warren has arranged for the dinner meeting to be at Austria Hof Lodge at Mammoth Lakes, 5pm on June 28. Those who want to motel-it on this trip can consider this place or the many other options in town.
Second Sunday Breakfast will be Alice’s Restaurant, 17288
Skyline Blvd
Woodside, CA 94062 Tel: 650 851 0303.
Hear excerpts from the April 30, 2008 Board Meeting held in Foster
City-
1. Tour Captain Warren reports on the April Finnon Lake Meeting followed by Safety Director Steve's report - Running time 5 minutes (mp3):
2. VP Ed reports on new members, followed by the Treasurers report by Russ.
Running time 11 minutes (mp3).
The June Meeting location is Pine Glen Camground (Group Site #11), Mammoth Lakes, CA. Here's the approximate location. This is the annual club election meeting- arrangements are being made for dinner and will be posted when finalized.
The Range of Light Gypsy Tour is on for Labor Day weekend! Here's the update.
The April 2008 issue in color is now online.
Details now posted for April meeting at Finnon Lake. Please note dinner count is needed by April 19.
Lee Blake has planned a great breakfast meeting and ride for April:
The Waffle Shop, 2727 Pinole Valley Rd, Pinole, CA 94564 ph510-758-6171 (meet at 8:30am).
The name Pinole Valley derives from "pinole", a Native American word for a kind of flour made from the seeds of maize, chia, and various other grasses and annual herbs. An expedition under Don Pedro Fages was said to have run out of provisions while exploring the area, and been fed pinole by a local village, and so the Spaniards named their camp "El Pinole".
After breakfast we’ll do a casual ride south along a few of the scenic canyons and crests. Most of us have gone thru the Caldecott Tunnel, but how many have ridden over it? Roughly 43 miles of picturesque curves and twisties ending in Castro Valley not far from 580.
Here's a Garmin .gdb file for download: Download 13April08-2ndSundayRoute.gdb
The 49er Rally, held May 23-26 is now open for online registration.
The March meeting and campout
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