Hwy 9 Fun Run!
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Hmmmm. I'm thinking of a different "loop" now...
Ok. Meet at the Summit, and drive all the way down 9 to Santa Cruz. Turn north on HWY 1.
Go right on Bonny Doon Road, from B.D. road, we would turn right onto Smith Grade. Take Smith Grade to Empire Grade and go left(north). From Empire Grade we would turn right onto Felton Empire road. Down Felton Empire until we end up at HWY 9 in Felton. Once we're in felton, we just take a left and cruise up HWY 9 until we are back where we started.
Total time: I'm guessing 1-1/2 to 2 hours max.
Ok. Meet at the Summit, and drive all the way down 9 to Santa Cruz. Turn north on HWY 1.
Go right on Bonny Doon Road, from B.D. road, we would turn right onto Smith Grade. Take Smith Grade to Empire Grade and go left(north). From Empire Grade we would turn right onto Felton Empire road. Down Felton Empire until we end up at HWY 9 in Felton. Once we're in felton, we just take a left and cruise up HWY 9 until we are back where we started.
Total time: I'm guessing 1-1/2 to 2 hours max.
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eggy,eggynatey said:
1.5-2 hours sounds good. I'm not familiar with the roads, so I wanted to ask you if traffic is gonna be a problem...if we meet 2:30, say we start driving around 3, thats when bay area traffic usually starts getting bad. But if these are nice secluded roads nobody commutes with, then (2thumbs) (rockon) (thumb)
Y'know, these roads are pretty secluded, so I don't think traffic will be that much of a problem. The only traffic I see us running into would be when we drop down into Felton. HWY 9 from Felton to Boulder Creek might be a little congested. ...We can always avoid that by staying on Empire Grade until we come to Jamison Creek road. That road drops down into Big Basin, which in turn drops us into Boulder Creek, so we would avoid most of the SLV traffic.
Damn, I cant make this one...I work until 5 in SJ...
There are some kick ass roads down here in the south bay..I am going to try to org a meet down here in addition to all the sweet stuff going on in scruz.
I got a kick ass loop Hicks road --> Old almaden--> Harry--> Hwy 152 --> Llagas road --> Hicks This goes all over the south hills (where we had that huge ass fire last year)
There are some kick ass roads down here in the south bay..I am going to try to org a meet down here in addition to all the sweet stuff going on in scruz.
I got a kick ass loop Hicks road --> Old almaden--> Harry--> Hwy 152 --> Llagas road --> Hicks This goes all over the south hills (where we had that huge ass fire last year)
It would also be nice to have another guy that's familiar with all these roads. Heh, I'm sure we'll hook-up one of these days!
Yeah, that map DOES kinda suck, huh?
Sorry, I'm not too good at directions
Let me try again...
Take 17 S. towards Santa Cruz. Take 85 N. towards Mountain View. Exit Saratoga Avenue, go left at signal onto Saratoga Ave. Follow Saratoga Ave all the way through the Village of Saratoga. Saratoga Ave turns into Big Basin Way & Hwy 9. Continue up the same road until you come to the intersection of HWY 9 and Skyline Blvd. Its a four-way stop at the top of the hill. There is a parking lot to your left as you get to the stop sign.
Now I've probably REALLY confused you. It's really pretty simple:
--Take Hwy 85
--exit at Saratoga Ave.
--South on Saratoga Ave
--Straight on Big Basin Way (Hwy 9) in Saratoga
--Left on Skyline Blvd at top of hill
--Left into parking lot.
Hope to see ya there!
Sorry, I'm not too good at directions
Let me try again...Take 17 S. towards Santa Cruz. Take 85 N. towards Mountain View. Exit Saratoga Avenue, go left at signal onto Saratoga Ave. Follow Saratoga Ave all the way through the Village of Saratoga. Saratoga Ave turns into Big Basin Way & Hwy 9. Continue up the same road until you come to the intersection of HWY 9 and Skyline Blvd. Its a four-way stop at the top of the hill. There is a parking lot to your left as you get to the stop sign.
Now I've probably REALLY confused you. It's really pretty simple:
--Take Hwy 85
--exit at Saratoga Ave.
--South on Saratoga Ave
--Straight on Big Basin Way (Hwy 9) in Saratoga
--Left on Skyline Blvd at top of hill
--Left into parking lot.
Hope to see ya there!
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http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Ds...,+CA&country=us&mag=7&cs=4&map.x=59&map.y=219
the summit is just to the left of where the map ends
the summit is just to the left of where the map ends
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S/Cp5someday said:
I wish I could but 3:00 just isn't gonna fly for me. It's pretty much next to impossible for me to leave work in the middle of an afternoon these days. Tthe earliest I could make something up in the santa cruz mountains is probably 6:00 or 6:30 on a weeknight but that's a crappy time to drive with the sun coming down in your face :'(
<Rant>
So my friend who has a company minivan (2000 Ford Windstar) beat me in a friendly stoplight race tonight. (I had a friend in the car but he isn't a big guy).
I want a stick so bad, buying the slushbox was the dumbest thing I ever did. Too bad my only experience with a manual before having this car was with a crappy pickup truck, I have since driven a 2003.5 mazdaspeed and regret my purchase decision evey day. It was so much easier to drive and with the new stretch of 101 open the traffic is still bad but only half as bad as it was before. </rant>
