North Bay Valley's and Mountain's Drive: April 17 & 18th
 

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I've put together two different drives for the weekend of the 17th and the 18th of April 2004.

Both mornings the groups will be meeeting at the Washoe House in North Petaluma (off Stoney Point Rd) @ 10:00-10:15 and leaving at 10:30am

The drive will take about 4-6 hours depending on what day you choose to go.
Saturday is a nice drive that will not be too hard to keep up on.

Sunday is a drive the hell out of your car / try not to crash kind of thing.

These are the crazy people that have desided on coming

Saturday's fun & happy drive:

1) bushido: Blue 2003 WRX with gunmetal wheels (rich) "both days"
2) OldGuySTI: Black 2004 STi with silver wheels (bill)
3) qwk_wrx: Black 2002 WRX with P1's (rocky)
4) Darkstar: Black 2003 WRX with black wheels (noal)
5) SlickmisterN: Black 2004 STi with gold wheels (nick)
6) Stimul8n: Black 2004 STi with gold wheels (richard) "both days"
7) Damaged goods: Black 2004 WRX (john)
8) Long_Travel_WRX: Blue 2004 WRX with gold wheels (james)
9) rskamfar: Silver 2004 WRX (rahi) -

Sunday's the fast and the furious

1) bushido: Blue 2003 WRX with gunmetal wheels (rich) - DIRT
2) Huck: White 2002 WRX with bronze wheels (huck) - TARMAC
3) psoper: Black 2002 WRX Wagon (pete) - DIRT
4) Rallywagon: Honda Civic Wagon (jane) - DIRT
5) Krinkov: Silver 2004 STi with bad a$$ wheels (jeremy) - TARMAC
6) hayscoob: White 2004 STi (paul) - TARMAC
7) philioWRXman: 1980 280ZX (phil) - TARMAC
8) Phil's friend: 1996 Saturn SL2 (rory) - TARMAC
9) andyC: Silver Leagcy GT (andy)
10) Stratos: Blue 2002 WRX with bronze wheels (rob) - TARMAC
11) balanz: Blue 2003 WRX (michael)
12) Stimul8n: Black 2004 STi with gold wheels (richard) - TARMAC
14) Xero: MPB Black 2002 WRX with bronze wheels (alan) - DIRT
15) gunslinger: Blue 2002 WRX (zach) -
16) Dropkick_muppet: Silver 2003 WRX with gunmetal wheels (don) -
17) danhtao: Blue Ridge Pearl 2003 RS (dan) -
18) daredevil: Black 2002 WRX with bronze wheels (max) - DIRT

The up in the air crew

1) soundwave: Silver 2003 WRX with gunmetal wheels (preston) i still believe he's coming, but he has to come along way
2) gotwrx: Silver 2002 WRX Wagon (tim)
3) Mike: Red 2002 Mini Cooper S (mike)
4) Jarrell & Jim: Blue 2003 WRX (jarrell & jim)

-rich

are we taking the same exact route?

in reverse :D

i'm in pending nothing else comes up.

I vote that someone other than Bushido leads. :D

YES !! :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

Maybe excessive ... :D BUT I've missed all the other drives Rich has organized.

Rich - THANK YOU !! I can do either day.

Jane

funny you should pic this date, care for some interesting company?:D

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prolly won't make this one
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as long as nothing comes up, i'm up for the drive
i've been wanting to do one of these :D

Alright here is the pace notes.

Oh. i don't have them from our meeting point. Only from the "Dry Creek Rd" exit in healdsberg.

1) Get off the Hwy 101 (north) and turn (left) onto "Dry Creek Rd" (0.0 miles)

2) Once you near Lake Sonoma "Dry Creek" becomes "Stewarts Pt / Skaggs Springs Rd"

3) Stay on Skaggs Springs Rd until you turn (left) onto "Tin Barn Rd" (33.3 miles)

4) At the end of the road turn (left) onto "King Ridge Rd" (39.3 miles)

5) Follow road until you come to a 4 way intersetion. There make a hard (right) onto "Fort Ross Rd" (55.7 miles)

6) At the end of the road turn (left) onto "Meyes Grade Rd" (65.4 miles)

7) Follow until it too comes to an end. There turn (left) onto Hwy 1 (south) (70.3 miles)

8) When the group gets into the town of Jenner we will be stopping for a little break (75.9 miles) there you can fill up on gas and get snacks.

9) Continue (south) on Hwy 1

10) This is were the group will be broken up. first group will be turning onto "Willow Creek Rd" and going for a dirt drive. The rest of the group will continue (south) until they get to "Coleman Valley Rd" where they also turn (left) but i do not have the Mileage Marker for that turn. So i will be driving that route on Sat. the 17th so no one gets lost. them i'll post the marker for the Tarmac crew for Sunday's drive. Because i'll be doing the "Dirt" route.

11) Dirt Crew turn (left) onto "Willow Creek Rd. (76.9 miles)

** when Tarmac crew gets to the end of Coleman Valley Rd. (you'll see a stop sign) Turn (right) onto Joy Rd.

12) Dirt crew, at the end of Willow Creek turn (right) onto "Coleman Valley Rd" (88.0 miles)

13) At the three way intersetion, The dirt crew stays (left) and turns onto "Joy Rd" (88.2 miles)

14) At the end of Joy Rd. Turn (right) onto "Bodega Hwy" (93.1 miles)

** i was hoping that here we could stop again and regroup. once in the small town of Bodega

15) Follow the road until it ends and turn (left) onto Hwy 1 (south / east) (94.5 miles)

16) Stay on Hwy 1 until we come to the small town of Valley Ford. There we turn (right) onto Valley Ford Rd. (97.9 miles)

17) Turn (left) onto "Whitaker" right before the bridge (101.4 miles)

18) Stay on Whitaker until it comes to and end at a STOP sign. There continue (straight) onto "Fallon Two Rock Rd." (104.3 miles)

19) Turn (right) onto " Alexander Rd" (107.9 miles)

20) At the end of the road turn (left) onto " Tomales Rd" (108.8 miles)

21) Turn (right) onto "Chileno Valley Rd" (109.6 miles)

22) At the end of the road turn (right) onto "Marshall / Petaluma Rd" (119.3 miles)

23) At the bottom of the hill turn (left) onto "Hicks Valley Rd" (121.9 miles)

24) At the end of the road turn (right) onto "Point Reyes / Petaluma Rd" (124.7 miles)

25) Once at the Cheese Factory we turn (right) into there parking lot and head to the back for our final goodbyes (125.6 miles)



I hope that makes everyone happy. And Trust me it's one of the best drives you'll ever be on.


-rich

bump :banana:

Hey, where are all my Subaru friends that said they like doing my drives? I figured i'd have a few more responces by now.

I was thinking about making the Saturday day more of a mellow "drive though the park" kind of thing. While Sunday being the "come on grip, don't fail me now." inspired drive. I'm trying to get my Christina (my wife) to come along on Sat. but the chance of that happening is very slim. And personally i wouldn't want her there on Sun. because she'ld most likely have me sleeping on the coutch that night. (she gets car sick when i go too fast)

how 'bout it
Pete
Miles
Richard
Kevin
Paul
Patrick
Don
Andrew
Andy
Adam
Alan
Ross
John
Noal

and anyone else i may have left out.


-rich

I vote for Saturday.
~Nick

Thanks Nick. Hope to see you that Saturday.

here's who i believe is coming so far.

1) bushido (rich) both days
2) Huck (huck)
3) psoper (Pete) Sunday
4) RallyWagon (jane)
5) soundwave (preston)
6) Krinkov (Jeremy)
7) danhtao
8) SlickmisterN (Nick) Saturday

Not bad i one day really.

Sorry for the lag... I've been a bit under the weather.

I'm going to make this one. :banana:

i'm hoping i'll be able to make it one day, preferably the "fast" day.