[RC] Crewing for Swanton Pacific - Barbara McCrary
After considerable anxiety (who me, a ride manager, have anxiety
attacks? NEVER! :-)), we have come to the following decisions:
1) Bloomquist Flat, 1-hour VC: All crews may come in, but
please come in as you expect your riders to come in. Front-runners first,
then leave and allow crews for middle-of-the pack riders, then later
riders. If we spread out the crews based on their expected arrival of
their riders, we may be able to squeeze everyone in the parking lot.
2) Park perpendicular, not parallel, and park snugly. We don't
have the room to sprawl. No trailers at all! We are
providing rescue trailers all day and into the night.
3) We have overflow parking at Cascade, and it appears that it will
be more convenient for all than parking alongside the driveway. Upon
passing through the Cascade gateway, immediately turn R into a large fallow
field, follow the farm road that will take you around the field and to a spot
just across the way from the vetting area. I think there used to be a
ditch separating the two areas. We're checking this out on the
weekend. We want to make as little impact on the residences and farm
building areas as possible. And there is tons of room in that field.
Be prepared to carry or wheel your gear across the way into the VC area.
3) At base camp, PLEASE do not park big rigs in the main area where
we have our registration, pre-ride vetting, and dining area. There are
numerous lovely camp sites before the main camp, across from the main camp and
after the main camp. There is one particularly nice camp past the main
camp that is easy to access, flat, close to the creek and has some shade.
It has a circular "driveway", as it circles around a moderate-sized redwood
tree.
Everyone is going to have to park with an eye to saving space and being
courteous to other campers/riders.
At present the total entries are 112, both rides combined.
Barbara McCrary Ride Mgr., Swanton Pacific 75/100 "The Most Beautiful
Trail in the World"
