[ETC-Discussion] 2010 NWTR - Medford

[Dave Van Horn]

We liked Medford even more than we expected we would.  As mentioned, the 
weather was perfect all weekend, warming from the low 70s on Friday to mid 
80s on Sunday and cloudless with light winds.  We arrived on Thursday and 
spent Friday riding around on our own and doing the Harry & David factory 
tour.  The visitor's center sent us off to Rogue Valley Creamery (known for 
its blue cheese), a winery tasting room and a chocolate shop, all on the 
same parking lot.  The blue cheese chocolate truffles were to die for.

We did the long ride on Saturday and the route was great, one sustained 
climb followed by miles and miles of gorgeous scenery on a gentle downhill, 
followed by an almost imperceptible climb back up.  No complaints about the 
food at the stops, there were bagels and cream cheese, Fritos, fresh fruit 
(cut up and in little cups, which made them really fast to grab), bananas (a 
little too green) and M&Ms, both male and female.  The bag lunch contained a 
generous chicken wrap, salad, juice and a cookie.  We didn't attend the 
banquet.

On the down side, their Dan Henrys were easy to miss and all of Saturday's 
routes ended with a greenway trail through town that wasn't a good choice, 
too many pavement cracks and some corners that were just a bit tight for 
tandems, for the triplets, quads and quint on the ride they must have been 
more than a bit.  While the stops were OK on food, the drink was just water 
and Heed, which I don't much care for, and there weren't enough 
porta-potties.  I was surprised how few vendors were at the vendor fair, not 
even Co-Motion, Burley or Bike Friday, just up the road in Eugene, but 
that's not the fault of the organizers.

Our bike broke Saturday night so the only riding we did on Sunday was back 
to the airport after the BBQ.

Dave & Kelly VH

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From: "Pat Taylor" <pat.c.taylor at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 6:22 PM
To: "Larry Gill" <Larry at larrygill.com>
Cc: "ETC Discussion-list" <discussion-list at evergreentandemclub.org>
Subject: Re: [ETC-Discussion] 2010 NWTR - Medford

> I don't know Larry, they had fruit, chocolate and water at the stops. 
> What
> else did you want?  We didn't do the long rides, but on the medium rides
> there were enough stops.
>
> The weather was great, a little warmer each day just to decompress us from
> our 60 degree weather.
>
> Pat
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Larry Gill <Larry at larrygill.com> wrote:
>
>> Weather was terrific!  The first evening having dinner with friends on 
>> the
>> patio outdoors at Porter's set the tone for the rest of the weekend.
>>
>> Routes were great.  Roads for the most part were pretty quiet.  Rest 
>> stops
>> and food were disappointing.  We didn't go to the banquet and haven't 
>> heard
>> how that was.
>>
>> Larry
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