Santa Cruz Zodiac ~150-200 miles. 9,250 ft - 13,000 ft of climbing. Monday, March 30 - Thursday, April 2.
Ride Leader: Steve Wetzel. Livinglarge2day@yahoo.com
You must be a member of the Sacramento Wheelmen cycling club to participate on this Zodiac. If you are not then please join prior to signing up for the zodiac or making a room reservation.
Please use the registration link (off to the left) to register so I can track attendance.
Hotel: Marriott, Fairfield Inn & Suites. 2956 Mission Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 (Located 2.9 miles from the Boardwalk). PLEASE DO NOT CALL THE HOTEL TO BOOK. I WILL UPDATE HERE WITH A WEB LINK TO BOOK YOUR ROOMS BY THURSDAY EVENING.
Rooms: a block of 1 Queen and 2 Queen rooms have been set aside until Feb 28th. Cost $149/night and total cost is about $515-$520 with taxes. Parking free, Breakfast buffet free! Share a room with a friend and cut the cost in half!
Once the block of rooms are gone they will give us more rooms at this rate if rooms are available otherwise you will need to pay the current rates. Use this link to reserve your room. (Pending receiving the link) Cancellation is 48 hours prior to check in time.
Dinners: this hotel is not in the same Boardwalk - Pier area. You will need to drive to restaurants for dinner.
Social Hours: Afternoons. Time TBD. Held in the hotel breakfast area and a small overflow outdoor area off the breakfast area. We can not reserve the space so we will need to be flexible and use the space available. Food: If anyone wants to help out in this area let me know but drinks will be BYO (bring your own).
Rides/Routes: TBD but planning on using the same routes as last year except modified to start/end at the Marriott. Initially the rides will be as follows with final routes posted by the end of February.
Monday: 1:30pm a short ride along the coast from the hotel parking lot.
Tuesday: 9am or 9:15am start to the Summit Store. ~55-60 miles, 3750 ft.
Wednesday: 9am or 9:15am start. TWO options: Gizdich Ranch (pie) in Watsonville (~50 miles, 2500 ft.) or drive out to Pescadero and do the Pescadero - Tunitas Creek - Skyline rides (55 miles, 6150 ft. or 45 miles, 4350 ft.).
Thursday: check out of hotel and 9:30am ride Bonny Doon ~30-35 miles, 2950 ft. (Or you can start the ride early enough and return to quickly shower and check out before 11am)
Sharing rooms:
* If you have someone you know and are comfortable sharing a room then please do because we don't have as many rooms as we have had people attending in prior years. If not, no worries then book a single room.