Spring Break Bike Tour 09

This will be El Grupo’s third annual spring break bike tour and I am excited. But first what is a bike tour? Well a traditional bike tour is Daniela and I’s favorite thing in the whole world. We have been on many and often talk about how to take our new kid on one with us as soon as possible. Hence the tandem that you see in the club house. So a bike tour is a bike ride in which you carry everything you need to live. Like all your camping gear, clothes, cook wear and the like. A typical touring bike might look like this

Can you tell that her bicycle is loaded with about 30 pounds of gear? Everything she need!! Awesome, so why is our home not like that? Sorry I’ll answer that myself.

Last year we took the team on a ride that started in Flagstaff, went to the Grand Canyon and around through Cameron and home in four days. This tour was fully self supported meaning we did not use any vehicle to accomplish the mission. We carried all the food, shelter, clothes, and junk we needed for the 4 days on our own. A great ride, thanks team!

This picture is actually not from that trip but the year before or the first ever. Check out Daniela’s glasses. The first year we rode to Bisbee and back, and vehicle support.

That will make it a lot like this year. We are going to have vehicle support. Daniela is going to be driving the Cronyn’s van for us and transporting all of our food, shelter, clothes and the like. Mostly because the team does not have the proper bikes for such an devour nor are we ready.

So the plan for most will be:
Leave on Thursday morning around 10am from the club house and ride 50 miles to Madera Canyon. Madera Canyon is just east of Green Valley in the Santa Rita mountains. We will then camp there for Thursday and Friday night. On Friday I would like to hike with the team to the peak of the Santa Rita’s which is Mt. Wrightson. A super hard fun hike.

I know that not everyone has school off on these days so Nelson has said he may ride with a group of kids on Friday afternoon not to leave after 1pm.

Saturday morning we would leave the canyon and head to Colossal Cave. A 45 mile ride that is not as hard as day one. We will then camp at the cave.

Sunday we would wake early and head back into town so that the kids can enjoy Easter with there families if that is what you do.

I am sure there will be more questions. So Please ask. Daniela at all time will be driving the car and supporting the kids as we go. That means stopping at smart places and providing water, food, a ride, and sun screen. I would love it if everyone could come for at least some of the weekend, as I know all can not make all. Let me know, and also let us know how we can help.

Thanks
Ignacio