Thanks to Mike Maul, who has just spent an enormous amount of time with me
on long distance cell phone, the 2007 Swanton Pacific website is on the
Internet. Although my e-mail comes through Wild Blue, for some reason I
could not upload the website through them using my user ID and password.
It would not recognize me! So I bought a temporary membership with
my old (dial-up) server, Cruzio, and there Mike and I uploaded the
website. I learned a lot from Mike tonight!
Please log on to http://members.cruzio.com/~bigcreekranch
to see our new website and to access a PDF file for the entry blank.
You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader to bring up the entry blank and print
it. If you cannot do this, send an e-mail, a fax, or call me and I will
mail you an entry.
Just a bit of information here...Lud wanted to drop the 100 mile ride for
this year. I begged for one more year, so that we could celebrate Swanton
Pacific's silver anniversary. As interest in 100 mile rides appears to be
waning, with the exception of one or two noted rides, it becomes harder to
justify the extra effort and expense to put on the 100 mile ride as well as the
75 miler. We had only 12 100 mile riders last year.
It's hard to believe it's been 25 years since the two of us went
out into the remote back country looking for trail. What we found was
nowhere as well defined as it is today. We had some wonderful and exciting
adventures in the process of establishing the trail and maintaining it from year
to year, and due to various changes in ownership of land, changes in
attitude of land owners, or safety of the trail route, we have changed the route
several times. We love this trail, but we are getting older and are tiring
more easily. This is likely to be the last time we will offer the 100
miler. If you ever wanted to ride Swanton Pacific 100, this is the year to
do it.
Barbara
Barbara McCrary Ride Mgr., Swanton Pacific 75/100 "The Most Beautiful
Trail in the World"
