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Good Morning!
I have arranged for a block of 12 rooms at the Comfort Inn, Bishop CA. We will be staying in the newly renovated side of the hotel as 1/2 is shut down for its renovation. The group rate is 111 + Tax. To lock in the room and rate, your reservation needs to be completed by 10/1.
Comfort Inn and Suites
805 N Main St Bishop, CA 93514
760-873-4284
The final route will be published in the next week. Thank you!
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Tony keep checking this forum and when the routes are posted usually some South County riders will post a meeting location to ride to the official start point. If you clicked on the “Notify me of follow-up replies” then you’ll get an email letting you know someone else posted here and it may be about a meeting location.
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Spoke with Crystal (Cristol) at 2pm today. There was a bit of price confusion at first but she took care of it and reduced the rate further ($107.20 + tax a night). Two of us are planning on staying and extra night, checking out Monday morning for the return trip. Just a thought if you have extra time. Oh, and Cristal reduced the Sunday night reservation further to $99.20. So two nights at 107.2 and one night at 99.2. + Tax. PS. The reason Crystal was not available yesterday was due to car trouble.
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Brandon, FYI, I called Cristol today, Sept. 13, to make reservations for the Fall Colors ride. She stated she did not know how to access the group rate and placed me on hold to call her manager. She NEVER got back to me, so I am going to make reservations elsewhere. They’re too flaky to depend on them.
Mike Pirosh
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Brandon,
I just spoke with Bill a moment ago about having a friend accompany us on the Fall colors ride. He is not a member yet but Bill said to let you know so the head count would be accurate. His Name is Robert Navarro and he is a very accomplished rider via street and desert racing. He saddles a GS 800 as one of several bikes. I have been to Baja with him and accompanied him on the four state tour, I can honestly say he is great under pressure and a fun adventure friend (and speaks several languages fluently). I have followed several of his Baja and Canadian adventures, he routinely does with his son (who is also an accomplished rider). He is very soft spoken and you just might pass him without notice but rest assured he is a very successful business man. I have learned to trust him and take his words to heart (as they have meaning and are few). Again my friends name is Robert Navarro…Regards,
Talus
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Hi Michele, just in case Brandon is working I thought I’d jump in and offer this help. The Bishop Visitor Center is at 760-873-8405, they might have ideas. Bishop Visitor.com is their site also Bishopchamberofcommerce.com is a resource. It will be cold over night since the town sits at 4150 elevation.
Good luck
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Hey Dan Burtt – I’m staying at the Bishop Creekside Inn: http://www.bishopcreeksideinn.com
BTW, This is not the same hotel that the club is staying at. I have a room with 2 queen beds if you want to share a room. Total for 2 nights is $322. Half of that would be $161. -
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It may be Monday………….
But Friday is coming and we get to ride with the South Coasters!!!!
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Hey Folks! Just became a member here – been a member via FB and a BMW MOA member. Looking forward to the ride this weekend. Cheers! Thanks for putting the ride together, Brandon. Best Regards, Julito
P.S. Max, Tony, Ron and I were riding in Julian this weekend. We heard word about a revised Day 1 route, but didn’t see a new GPX file posted in the forum. Can you please confirm if routes are the same or post the changes? Thanks!
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Fellow Riders,
After much toiling and reviewing alternates to the 395 (yes I know there are some) I have decided to leave the day 1 route as-is. Here is the official kick-off post.
We will start the ride: Meeting at Starbucks in Diamond Bar.
22438 Golden Springs Dr #100, Diamond Bar, CA 91765 (Starbucks is in the Target Parking Lot)
KSU @ 9AMWe will do a bit of Interstate riding via 60, 15 to the 395 that will land us to enjoy lunch at Bernardino’s in Inyokern. The second stop will be at the crest of Mt. Whitney portal via the 395. After Mt. Whitney, we will stop a few more miles up the road (30.05) miles up to explore the Mt Whitney Fish Hatchery before finalizing our day in Bishop. Friday night is an eat on your own night.
Day two has three major events. First stop will be Lake Sabrina followed by a nice circle and stops around Mammoth with lunch in and around June Lake. Final lunch stop will be confirmed on the day or ride. After lunch, we will stop at Lee Vining where we will double back with a small alternate route via Swall Meadows rejoining the 395 near Mesa. Group dinner will be at Holy Smoke Texas Style BBQ.
Day Three we will hit the 395 and head south and join the 14 to take us through Red Rock Canyon and with a stop for lunch at Mojave Air Space Port for lunch at Voyager. A bit more highway riding to land us via Angeles Crest to terminate our weekend in La Canada at Panera.
We will have quite the turnout this year. No pressure for my first overnight eh? I will ask in advance for those who would be willing to lead a second, possibly third group? 🙂 Looking at 18 to 20 bikes at our peak! I have added our routes to this post to keep it top of mind for those who lost the routes earlier in the thread.
Thanks for all of your support and I look forward to a great weekend with the South Coasters!
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Check out this Google Map of Fall Colors for current bloom.
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https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=12FSQxbVe9CedswOvJaWaeI5vvYU&hl=en_US&ll=38.828241495484896%2C-119.25427913056637&z=7 -
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Thanks for all the replies guys and appreciate your offer to lead Ron and Carl. We can sort out all the details when we meet up. Good to hear you are coming to Erasmo. Troy, I don’t know what to say about having to work 🙂 other than I know the feeling ha. Weather is looking to be quite nice up and down so a fun packed weekend for sure.
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Thanks for all the replies guys and appreciate your offer to lead Ron and Carl. We can sort out all the details when we meet up. Good to hear you are coming to Erasmo. Troy, I don’t know what to say about having to work 🙂 other than I know the feeling ha. Weather is looking to be quite nice up and down so a fun packed weekend for sure.
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Ron – Looking at weather.com:
Date / City / Morning Low Temp / City / Mid-Afternoon High Temp
20-Nov / Los Angeles / 63F / Bishop / 67F Mostly Sunny
21-Nov / Bishop / 29F / Bishop / 68F Sunny
22-Nov / Bishop / 35F / Los Angeles/ 91F SunnyIf we don’t get on the road until about 0900 on Saturday Morning and Sunday Morning, it should be warm up to the mid-50s by then.
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Ron,
It will be very cold at night in Bishop – down in the low 30s so the evenings will be in the 40s. For riding it will be quite cool up around Mammoth and June, the high on Saturday is going to be around 58 which means a lot of our riding will be in the low 50s. The ride up will be in the low 70s – lunch stop 73. -
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Talus –
We will spend 20 or so minutes taking our rest stop at Kramer Junction and are looking to be at lunch around 11:30. With our large group will we most likely be there through 1.
Looking forward to the ride boys and girls. Yes even Ivy will be along but she will meet us driving via cage and will do the day ride on Saturday 2-up.
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Talus –
We will spend 20 or so minutes taking our rest stop at Kramer Junction and are looking to be at lunch around 11:30. With our large group will we most likely be there through 1.
Looking forward to the ride boys and girls. Yes even Ivy will be along but she will meet us driving via cage and will do the day ride on Saturday 2-up.
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