Note: Registration for this event will open Friday, April 19, 2024
Prestwick, New Brighton, Inverness, Elgin, Copperfield 27
Ride Level: Urban ride, newcomers and intermediate, easy pace.
Coordinator: Peter Bradbury
Route description:
This is the best of the McKenzie Towne area, with no hills, mainly on pathways. Starting from the McKenzie Towne Shopping Center, we go around Prestwick and its lake and border the New Brighton ponds. We visit Inverness with its lake, quaint housing, and lookout. Next, we move to Elgin and around Copperfield on the Mattamy Greenway. We double back through Copperfield and its ponds and finish along McKenzie Towne's fancy High Street. (Gain 63 m.)
Map:https://ridewithgps.com/routes/42191905
Location: McKenzie Towne Shopping Center, southwest of 52 Street and McKenzie Towne Boulevard SE. You can approach the Deerfoot and turn east on McKenzie Towne Boulevard. Choose to park in front of Sobey's, to the east.
Operations
- The ride will have a co-leader, a sweep, employ radios, and regroup at intervals. No one will be left behind.
- Bring lunch, snacks, and water.
- Take your route recording device for more enjoyment and the possibility of leading this ride or a suitable variant next year.
- It will be helpful if you arrive 15 minutes before the start for bike preparation, meet and greet, and a quick safety drill.
- E-Bikes are welcome.
Notification and Registration: The system will notify all Friday events and open them for rider registration ONE week beforehand.
Non-members are welcome as guests. They must fill out the waiver on our website under the Join Us/Guest Waiver and email it to guest@elbowvalleycc.org. Members can sponsor and register one guest. Unsponsored guests will be registered as guests of the coordinator after receipt of their waivers.
Waitlist: If you find the ride filled, you are encouraged to put your name on the waitlist. The chances are that you will replace a cancellation done automatically.
Cancellation: Suppose you are signed up and find you have to cancel. Please do so as soon as you know to leave space for someone else. Suppose it is necessary to cancel because of weather or another reason. In that case, I will notify you on this page and by Email or telephone by 8 am on the event day.
See you. Peter
