THE SIRS JANUARY BICYCLE ACTIVITY
WILL BE ON THE LOS GATOS CREEK TRAIL
WHEN: January 31st on the 5th Friday of the month
LOCATION: The Los Gatos Creek Trail
MEET AT : Blackford Elementary School parking lot
1970 Willow Street, San Jose.
Willow Street dead ends into the Blackford Elementary school about
1-1/2 miles W/O Meridian Ave. You can park anywhere on Willow Street. Do not park in the school parking lot. It is a tow away zone. We can start riding on the trail going past the parking lot.
TIME: Rendezvous at 9:50AM leave at 10:00AM
LENGTH OF RIDE: About 15 miles round trip. We will take a more direct route from the restaurant to the start of the ride. That should shorten up the miles and time. It will be about 1-1/2 hours with breaks going to Los Gatos and about an hour going back to the start. The lunch might be a little over an hour. From start to finish the ride should take about 3-1/2 hours with lunch and breaks.
DESCRIPTION OF RIDE: The ride will be on semi level paved trails with one short steep hill at the Vasona Dam. We will start the ride going west on the paved Los Gatos Creek Trail at Blackford Elementary School.
We will ride under Leigh Ave following Los Gatos Creek. We will pass under Bascom Ave, Campbell Ave, go threw Campbell Park and go threw Los Gatos Creek Park. We will Pass practice fly fishing ponds and percolation ponds threw urban/rural multi use Los Gatos Creek Trails. We will pass over some foot bridges spanning over Los Gatos Creek.
We will ride around Vasona Lake seeing water fowl and turtles along the way. We will ride by the Davy Jones railroad and by Oak Meadow Park.
We will ride out the backside of Vasona Park alongside of Los Gatos Creek and Highway 17 to a wood foot bridge taking us to Main Street in Los Gatos. There, we can have lunch at Willow Street Pizza.
It is a popular restaurant in Los Gatos. Standard and electric bikes are welcome. I look forward to riding with you. I have two electric bikes I can lend out. Please let me know.
Please RSVP by January 28th to Fred JonesYour Bicycle Chairman/Coordinator Cell 408-609-1926 E-mail Freddyelect@sbcglobal.net