River Rafting on the Kern River -
July 20-22
Will you attend?
See who's going!
There are ONLY 20 RAFTING SPOTS AVAILABLE, register early.
Family event. Ages 9+, no weight restrictions.
20 people minimum. Lots of fun!
See
http://www.mtnriver.com/. We will be doing the Maniyak It
thing.
See
http://www.mtnriver.com/maniyak.htm.
Lunch, life vests, and transportation back to their facility is provided.
1)
The rafting & camping cost $155/person.
Includes lunch on Saturday.
2) Camping on the Kern
for the weekend only: $20/person.
The campground that we will be staying at is
Headquarters.
Select the Headquarters link for info about the camp site and directions to
the site.
We have reserved several sites at Headquarters Campground which is the
same place as last year's event. We have site #'s
.... It is first come, first served and we
plan to have at least 20 people attend, so there will have to be at least
four people per site-depending on our roster final count and only 2 cars
allowed per site. Check-in and check-out is at 2PM on both, Friday and
Sunday. Campsites ... are all RV accessible. Pop-tops and tents are allowed at the
other 5 sites. Again, please refer to
Reserve America for details on Headquarters camp ground.
Everyone is on their own for food except for lunch on Saturday which is
provided by the rafting company if you are going rafting.
Sarah Love
Youth and Family Director
West County Family YMCA
714-847-9622 Ext. 106
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Trailblazers Paintball !!!!
Will you attend?
See who's going!
When: Saturday, May 19, 2007.
8:10 am sharp.
Where: Hollywood Park 9030 Somerset Blvd, Bellflower, CA 90706
Office: 562-867-9600
http://www.hollywoodsports.com
BRING YOUR FRIENDS!!! (Min age is 10 years old)
NOTE: GROUP
NAME IS “West County Y" or
"DAN HAZARD, AL IBA, I&I SPORTS”
Directions: 605
North to 91 West, exit Lakewood Blvd, then turn right. On Somerset make a
right. Take third driveway on your right. Meet by the large cube
within sight of the parking lot on the left.
We need to enter as one
group! We can
play until 3pm but most people won’t last that long so leave when you like.
SAFETY: We will have a twenty minute
safety introduction meeting and the rules are strictly enforced. If you
break a rule you will be asked to leave for the day.
Wear long pants and shirt, kneepads,
sturdy shoes, hat and gloves. Bring a towel (you will sweat) and change of clothes in backpack. Lockers are
available. Bring lunch and drinks or you can buy food on site.
Leave all valuables at home!
COST: Admission cost is
reduced to $15. Rental fee of gun and mask is waived. Case of
paintballs (2000) is $55. Depending on how many you shoot and how many games
you play, a case can be enough for 2-4 players. Air canister refills are $10
and are good for about 300 shots.
EVERYONE MUST SIGN A RELEASE FORM AT HOLLYWOOD SPORTS.
Link for waiver form:
http://www.hollywoodsports.com/newsite/images/hspwaiver.pdf
Mr. Al
Iba, owner of I+I Sports, (19751 S Figueroa St. Carson, CA.
310-715-6800
www.iisports.com) graciously arranged this event and discount for us.
Please try to use his store for any paintball, martial arts or boxing equipment
purchases.
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 Trailblazers Event - ATV Trip - April
27-29
Will you attend?
See who's going!
Things to bring: gloves (Tom G. sez you can get inexpensive leather
gloves at Harbor Freight), safety glasses or goggles, your own helmet if you
have one, jackets, long sleeves for riding, warm clothes (can get cold at
night), boots, warm sleeping bags, sun screen, chap stick, snacks, water,
camp chairs, fold up tables, telescopes.
Saturday night group dinner provided will be delicious as usual! That
means you are responsible for all of your other meals.
Places to rent an RV from:
El Monte RV,
Cruise
America are the two that are nearby.
Coyote Dry Lake: 91 to 60 to 10 (towards Palm Springs) to
62 (towards 29 Palms), look for CHP station (the red star represents the
CHP office location;
63683 29 Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree), continue about 1.5 miles and turn left
on
Coyote Valley Rd/Sunfair Rd, then right on Broadway. Broadway
turns into a dusty, dirt road and then opens up into the dry lake bed.
Look for a gathering of RV's, that's probably the motley crew of Trail
Blazers! Unless you are the first to arrive, we won't be difficult to
spot.
Catalina - Two Harbors - Sep 8 thru Sep 10
Will you attend?
See who's going!
(tagging along with the GHV)
25 spots are available so
reserve your spot soon.
Deadline is
Aug 18, 2006 !
Cost: $140/person.
Includes Catalina Flyer, camp site, delicious meals, kayaks/snorkel gear!!
Departing from Balboa.
Things to bring: Tent (for sure), sleeping bags, sun screen, etc.
Trash cans are OK on the Flyer!!!
White Water Rafting
at the Kern River - July 14-16
Will you attend?
See who's going!
IMPORTANT: Minimum age / weight requirement is age 12 / 85 lbs.
There are ONLY 47 RAFTING SPOTS AVAILABLE, register early.
YMCA INTERNET Event Registration page
HELP is here!
Existing member guide for registration
HELP is here!
New member guide for registration
Register and pay using the link above for White Water Rafting
with White Water Voyages. Deadline is July 1, 2006 !
You will need the ID/password you got in the mail.
New development!!! For those with children
younger than 12, contact
Chuck Bagby.
He knows of a rafting company that caters to the
younger crowd.
We are rafting with
Whitewater voyages.
Their location is only 4 miles from the campground and we need to provide
our own transportation on Saturday to get to their facility. We need to be
at WW Voyages by 9AM on Saturday. Rafting lasts until around 3:30PM.
Lunch, life vests, and transportation back to their facility is provided.
The Whitewater rafting and camping will cost $174/person.
This includes lunch. Another option would be to come and camp on the Kern
for the weekend at a cost of $20/person.
The campground that we will be staying at is
Headquarters.
Select the Headquarters link for info about the camp site and directions to
the site.
We have reserved 12 sites at Headquarters Campground which is the
same place as last year's event. We have site #'s
3,4,5,8,9,10,12,13,19,21,27, and 29. It is first come, first serve and we
plan to have at least 47 people attend, so there will have to be at least
four people per site-depending on our roster final count and only 2 cars
allowed per site. Check-in and check-out is at 2PM on both, Friday and
Sunday. Campsites 3,5,9,12,13,21,27, and 29 are all RV accessible, so we
can allow up to seven 30ft. RV's. Pop-tops and tents are allowed at the
other 5 sites. Again, please refer to www.reserveamerica.com for details.
Everyone is on their own for food except for lunch on Saturday which is
provided by the rafting company if you are going rafting.
Sarah Love
Youth and Family Director
West County Family YMCA
714-847-9622 Ext. 106
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Magic Castle in
Hollywood -
Sunday, June 11
Will you attend?
See who's going!
Maximum of 50 people.
Sunday afternoon matinee!
Meet at the Magic Castle at 11:00am to see the close up shows. Brunch
is served at 1:30pm
and the show starts immediately afterward.
Family event!
Cost: $49/person. Valet parking: $6/car. Call the YMCA to
pay.
Dress: Men-coat, tie, dress pants and dress shoes. Women-formal
evening attire and must wear a matching jacket or coat if they choose to
wear slacks.
No shorts, jeans or tennis shoes allowed. No cameras allowed.
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Ski trip - Friday-Sunday, February 24-26, 2006
Big Bear. New place this year. More details
to come.
The cost will
be $115/person. This is for the cabin and the meals, but does not include
lift tickets. You can call
Taina to register @ 714-847-9622.
Also, Snow Valley will offer us a
group discount. If there is demand for Skiing and Snowboarding on Saturday,
I will arrange this with them. Please let me know what your Saturday snow
preferences are (i.e. Saturday ski lift & lesson, snow boarding lessons,
lift only).
Pali
Mountain Retreat and Conference Center
Will you attend? --
See who's going.
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Perris Wind Tunnel - Sunday, January 15, 2006
Indoor sky diving at the Perris Valley Airport. It
feels like sky diving, the wind streaming around your body, jowls fluttering
like a dog with it's head out the car window, body arched, arms held out
like goal posts and legs bent behind you. You're not wearing a parachute!
Say it ain't so!! You don't need one, you're in the Perris Valley Wind
Tunnel!
The wind tunnel shoots air upward at speeds of 70-120 MPH. Once you
step inside and assume the skydiving position, the sensation of floating on
air replicates free falling from an airplane! Check out their web site,
Perris Wind Tunnel Lake Perris, for more info and directions.
Cost: $50/person. This includes lesson/briefing and approximately
three minutes flying time for each person and the fun of watching your
friends experience it!
Will you attend? --
See who's going.
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White Water Rafting at the Kern
River - July 15-17
Will you attend?
See who's going!
Based on participation at previous events, I have booked
the maximum amount of slots allowed on the river that day for 30 people.
The campground that we will be staying at is
Headquarters.
Select the Headquarters link for info about the camp site and directions to
the site.
The Whitewater rafting will cost $125/ person for a
9:30-MP3 expedition. This includes lunch. Another option would be to come
and camp on the Kern for a weekend, even if you don't want to go rafting.
Annie Maiser
Youth and Family Director
West County Family YMCA
714-847-9622 Ext. 106
Magic Castle in
Hollywood -
Sunday, June 12, 2005
Will you attend?
See who's going!
Maximum of 50 people.
Sunday afternoon matinee!
Meet at the Magic Castle at 11:30am. Lunch buffet served at 12:30pm
and the show starts at 1:00pm.
Family event! $35 for adults and $25
for kids! Valet parking: $6/car.
Contact:
Tom
Gierhardt
Trailblazers Paintball !!!!
Will you attend?
See who's going!
When: Sunday, May 15, 2005.
8:10 am sharp.
Where: Hollywood Park 9030 Somerset Blvd, Bellflower, CA 90706
Office: 562-867-9600 http://www.hollywoodsports.com
NOTE: GROUP
NAME IS “HAZARD+IBA”
Directions: 605
North to 91 West, exit Lakewood Blvd, then turn right. On Somerset make a
right. Take third driveway on your right. Meet by the large cube
within sight of the parking lot on the left.
We need to enter as one
group! We can
play until 4pm but most people won’t last that long so leave when you like.
SAFETY: We will have a twenty minute
safety introduction meeting and the rules are strictly enforced. If you
break a rule you will be asked to leave for the day.
Wear long pants and shirt, kneepads,
bring towel (you will sweat) and change of clothes in backpack. Lockers are
available. Bring lunch and drinks or you can buy food on site.
We will plan on playing four games
in four different fields, each with unique topography.
We will have two teams in each game.
Each game will last about twenty minutes or until one whole team is
eliminated, then there is rest period before the next game.
COST: Admission cost is
reduced to $5. Rental fee of gun and mask is waived. Case of
paintballs (2000) is $55. Depending on how many you shoot and how many games
you play a case can be enough for 2-4 players. Air canister refills are $10
and are good for about 300 shots.
EVERYONE MUST SIGN A RELEASE FORM AT HOLLYWOOD SPORTS.
Mr. Al
Iba, owner of I+I Sports, (19751 S Figueroa St. Carson, CA.
310-715-6800
www.iisports.com) graciously arranged this event and discount for us.
Please use his store for any paintball, martial arts or boxing equipment
purchases.
The Trailblazers are taking a trip to see the newly opened
Navy Museum ship the USS
Midway -Aircraft carrier in San Diego, California, Saturday, March
19th. We will meet at the Santa Ana Train station between 8:30 AM and 9
AM Saturday morning, and board around 9:20 AM.
See Ticket Information
below - a AAA discount is shown. Normal ticket price $51 for dad and
child. This is a round trip fare, which for two people is a good value. We
will purchase tickets individually at the depot.
The USS Midway adult
fare is $13, and kids are $7. The elevators on the ship operate at 10:30
AM , 2 PM and 4 PM. I recommend we take the 2 PM elevator ride - it is
quite special. See http://www.midway.org,
the Museum web site.
I will work on getting
a Y discount to the museum.
Tom
March 5, 2005 (Saturday), 7:30 AM - Bike Ride to Mutt Lynch's
Are you gonna go?
See who's going!
Join us in our Celebration of the New Year and keeping our
Resolutions to get in shape with our 16th Annual Trailblazer "Get in Shape
(Pig Out) Breakfast Bike Ride to Mutt Lynch's."
Who: Everyone in the family and all your friends (especially your kids
friends as we can recruit more members).
When: Saturday, March 5, 2005 meet at 7:30am.
Where: Huntington State Beach Parking Lot
What to bring: A bicycle (or Rollerblades if you're fast and have a sense of
adventure), Hunger, $$$
to pay for your breakfast and maybe a jacket.
Why: To show camaraderie with Trailblazers and get some exercise
We will meet in the farthest south parking
lot, closest to the Santa Ana River. (You should probably enter on Magnolia,
since the Brookhurst entrance is always closed).
We will meet at the parking lot at 7:30am.
It will be a leisurely flat bike ride through Newport Bluffs (some street
riding, but mostly on the beach strand) to Mutt Lynch's. Since we
can't get a reservation, it will be on a first come/first served basis.
Please try to RSVP on our sign-up sheet on our website.
February 25-27, 2005 - Ski Trip
Are you gonna go?
See who's going!
We've got a single extra large cabin
that will sleep up to 25 people. The cabin is at Big Bear in the Moonridge
area ,close to Bear mountain ski resort. We've got it booked for
Friday Feb 25th thru Sunday morning Feb.27th.
A
pic of the place.
More info on the
place.
This is a great trip! Not only do you get to ski/snowboard/snow play,
but we will all be in the same cabin this year. It's also a
great opportunity for all us to have fun together playing games and getting
to know everyone.
As is our tradition, Saturday's lunch and dinner will be provided by the
hosts. Friday nights dinner is usually had in town and you provide
your own breakfasts and snacks.
The cost will be
$65/person. This is for the cabin and the meals above, but does not include
lift tickets (come on, you know it couldn't be that good of a deal!).
A
pic of the place.
More info on the
place.
January 15, 2005 (Saturday), 11:30 AM -
Perris Wind Tunnel
Are you gonna go?
See who's going!
Indoor sky diving at the Perris Valley Airport. It feels like sky
diving, the wind streaming around your body, jowls fluttering like a dog
with it's head out the car window, body arched, arms held out like goal
posts and legs bent behind you. You're not wearing a parachute! Say it
ain't so!! You don't need one, you're in the Perris Valley Wind
Tunnel!
The wind tunnel shoots air upward at speeds of 70-120 MPH. Once you
step inside and assume the skydiving position, the sensation of floating on
air replicates free falling from an airplane! Check out their wesite,
Perris Wind Tunnel Lake Perris, for more info and directions.
Cost: $50/person. This includes lesson/briefing and approximately
three minutes flying time for each person and the fun of watching your
friends experience it!
Christmas
Walk - Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2004
Meet at Tom Gierhart's house.
See the flyer!
Will you attend?
See who's going!
Parent Child InterNation Holiday Event - Saturday,
Dec 4, 2004 @ 7:00PM
Long Beach v Fresno - Tickets are $9/ea. Loge Seats.
Will you attend?
See who's going!
See
flyer.
Contact
Annie for tickets.
Speedway, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004 - 6pm
Will you attend?
See who's going!
This event includes all the action of alcohol fueled
motorcycle racing in a championship event together with a huge freestyle
motocross jumping show!
Mission Motorsports
Freestyle Motorcycle Jumpers with Join Insane Professional Speedway
Motorcycle Racers in this moto extravaganza.
Handlebar to handlebar
action on the track and high flying 100 foot leaps through the air will
dazzle every dad, son, and daughter. You gotta go to this event which
will immortalize you for you kiddos...taking them to this awesome event. I
have scored discount tickets good for $2.00 off the adult admission (making
it $15), $8 for kids 6-12, and 5 and under are free. This is the
bargain of the year.
We will meet for a
tailgate dinner before the event which is a great time to get together
before the holiday season and is the last event of Speedway for the season.
Gates open at 6pm and we will be there at that time to setup. Be there
at that time or as soon as your wheels can take you there.
Enter the Fairgrounds Parking lot off of Mesa Dr. from Newport Blvd.
Check you calendar now to reserve the date and shoot me an
e-mail
to confirm.
International Speedway,
Orange County Fairgrounds, 949-492-9933.
Del H. is hosting this event. For more info
e-mail him.
Saturday, Oct. 16, 2004 - 7pm-8:30pm
Our next event is at
GO-KART WORLD.
Will you attend?
See who's going!
Cost: $17/person. Price includes: pizza, drinks, cookies, reserved
table, 4 race tokens, 4 game tokens. This is a family event!
Check out their web
site! They are located off of the 405 in Carson.
Tom G. is hosting this event. For more info call 714-839-6151, or
e-mail him.
Oct 1-3, 2004
Our next event is at
Thousand Trails
campground in Idyllwild, CA. Who is organizing this one??
Will you attend?
See who's going!
August 27-29, 2004: Little Harbor, Catalina
Space is limited to 35 people. Cost: $105/person. More details
to come.
Will you attend?
See who's going!
Little Harbor
camping details. <<< Please read!
Read what fun we had last
year!
The August meeting will be Aug 24.
Mandatory meeting for Little Harbor campers!
July: Camp Pendleton is cancelled! Marines won't let us on the base!
...but...
now we have San Clemente State Beach all day family event on July 10th!
See the flyer!
Contact:
Gary Godshall
Other info: car pooling is encouraged since parking
may be difficult and parking
fees rise to $10 on July 1.
Will you attend?
See who's going!
Tuesday, June 15,
2004 - 7 PM
Recruitment Night at Brewbakers! Bring a friend!
Will you attend?
See who's going!
$5/person at the door.
We need 5 volunteers to call 3 or 4 people from our Princess/Guide graduate
list. Call Stacy Mungo for some contacts, 847-9622.
Brewbakers is on Heil between Gothard and Golden West on the south side of
the street. The address is 7242 Heil Av.
Magic Castle in
Hollywood -
Sunday, May 23, 2004
Will you attend?
See who's going!
Maximum of 50 people.
Sunday afternoon matinee!
Meet at the Magic Castle at 11:30am. Lunch buffet served at 12:30pm
and the show starts at 1:00pm.
Family event! $35 for adults and $25
for kids! Valet parking: $6/car.
Contact:
Tom
Gierhardt
Trail Blazers Event - ATV Trip - April
23-25
DEADLINE DATE:
March 1st. Call Stacy to book your space at $220/person!
Of that total, $100/person is a damage deposit and you will get all or
most of that back in early May.
Don't miss the event of the year! Everyone enjoys this one.
Sign up now!!
Will you attend?
See who's going! Contacts:
Jim Clark,
Dwight Dodd
Release Form - print, sign and bring to Ranch meeting or mail to the
YMCA.
Things to bring: gloves (Tom G. sez you can get inexpensive leather
gloves at Harbor Freight), safety glasses or goggles, your own helmet if you
have one, jackets, long sleeves for riding, warm clothes (can get cold at
night), boots, warm sleeping bags, sun screen, chap stick, snacks, water,
camp chairs, fold up tables, telescopes.
Saturday night group dinner provided by hosts and it will be delicious as
usual! That means you are responsible for all of your other meals.
Saturday night is also the fireworks display that is second only to
Disneyland! Fireworks provided by the Dodd family!
Places to rent an RV from:
El Monte RV,
Cruise
America are the two that are nearby. There are others that are not
so close,
American RV (La Habra),
Adventure Touring (Gardena) and you may know others too.
Coyote Dry Lake: 91 to 60 to 10 (towards Palm Springs) to
62 (towards 29 Palms), look for CHP station (the red star represents the
CHP office location;
63683 29 Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree), continue about 1.5 miles and turn left
on
Coyote Valley Rd/Sunfair Rd, then right on Broadway. Broadway
turns into a dusty, dirt road and then opens up into the dry lake bed.
Look for a gathering of RV's, that's probably the motley crew of Trail
Blazers! Unless you are the first to arrive, we won't be difficult to
spot.
The prices will range from $100 to 120 per person and $100 deposit per
person.
We will have the following bikes
2 80cc auto
3 90cc semiauto
2 350cc ex manual
3 250cc trailblazer auto
2 350cc warriers manual
2 400cc manual
2 500cc auto
DEADLINE
DATE: February 27th. Call Stacy to book your space at
$10/person!
This
looks to be a WHALE of an event. OK, so it's not funny! But it
is a family event so invite everyone along! It looks like a full day
of fun at the Dana Point Whale
Festival. Check it out!
Will you attend?
See who's going!
$10.00 a head for the cruise. Contact Stacy right away with a head
count and a credit card number!
Sunday, March 14, 2004 -
Calendar of events:
Meet at 9:30am for a pancake breakfast. $3 for adults and $2 for kids.
11 AM to 1 PM -
Whale watch
cruise
1PM to end of the day - Enjoy the festivities at the festival with the fam
and the Trail Blazers!
Trail Blazers Event - Ski Trip
THIS MONTHS EVENT WILL BE: The Snow Valley Ski Trip on
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, February 6-8, 2004.
IMPORTANT! The official limit on vehicles
is three (3) per site but they will allow four (4) maximum so we should
encourage some car pooling.
Will you attend?
See who's going! Directions
Stacy has contacted Snow Summit/Bear Mountain Resorts and got discounted
prices as listed below. In order to get these reduced rates, we have to
order them as a group. Stacy is willing to do this on her card, so if your
interested contact her about your request and payment within the next week.
This offer is for everyone whether your going up for the entire weekend or
just for the day. These tickets/packages are good at either Snow Summit or
Bear Mountain, so we can decide which one when we are up there.
1) Adult all day lift ticket $45.
2) Kids age 13-22 all day lift ticket $32
3) Kids age 7-12 all day lift ticket $15
4) Snowboard or skiing lessons (includes all equipment lessons
and full day lift ticket)
Ages 13 & over $66
Ages 8-12
$50
5) Snowboard or ski equipment rental (if you don't take the
lesson package, and just buy an all day lift ticket you will have to rent
equipment at the following rates, or bring your own)
Adults $22
Child $15
Contact Stacy soon.
Here is the information on the winter/ski
trip. We have two cabins next door to each other in the Moonridge area of
Big Bear (close to Bear Mountain ski area). Combined, they sleep 20 with
linens provided. I'm bringing my queen size air mattress which I won't mind
sleeping on, so I figure we can fit 22.
You can take look at the cabins at
Alpine and
Moonridge. The cabin names are the Moonridge and Alpine Cove.
Directions
Moonridge: Hazard, Hovden, McIssac, VanDeVanter. Alpine: Archer,
Ferretti, Smith, Wilson.
Although we often call this a ski trip, there are lots of things to do in
the Big Bear area such as sledding, exploring the Holcomb Valley
mining/ghost town area, hiking (if the weather is right) and possibly an
observatory tour etc.
The cost is $100/person, which will include the traditional BBQ lunch and
Saturday's dinner. Please pay the YMCA by our meeting date of January
20.
This is always a great trip and really gives the kids a chance to get to
know each other by sharing the cabins. One of the cabins has a game room
with a pool table, should be a fun trip! Once I know who is coming I
will send out direction etc. Sign up soon as the trip is limited to 22
people.
January 4, 2004 (Sunday) - Bike Ride to Mutt Lynch's -
Host: Jim Banville
Are you gonna go?
THIS MONTHS EVENT WILL BE: The bike ride to Mutt
Lynch's on Sunday, January 4th, 7:30 AM.
Join us in our Celebration of the New Year and keeping our
Resolutions to get in shape with our 15th Annual Trailblazer "Get in Shape
(Pig Out) Breakfast Bike Ride to Mutt Lynch's."
Who: Everyone in the family and all your friends (especially your kids
friends as we can recruit more members).
When: Sunday, January 4, 2004 meet at 7:30am.
Where: Huntington State Beach Parking Lot
What to bring: A bicycle (or Rollerblades if you're fast and have a sense of
adventure), Hunger, $$$
to pay for your breakfast and maybe a jacket.
Why: To show camaraderie with Trailblazers and get some exercise
We will meet in the farthest south parking
lot, closest to the Santa Ana River. (You should probably enter on Magnolia,
since the Brookhurst entrance is always closed).
We will leave the parking lot at 8:00 am.
It will be a leisurely flat bike ride through Newport Bluffs (some street
riding, but mostly on the beach strand) to Mutt Lynch's. Since we
can't get a reservation, it will be on a first come/first served basis.
Please try to RSVP on our sign-up sheet on our website.
December ??, 2004 (Tuesday) -
Christmas Walk -
Host:
Gierhart family
Are you gonna go?
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