Let's hope for a bit of an extension of our "Native American Summer" in to the holiday week and good weather for the Fifth (I believe it is) Annual Team Alameda Thanksgiving Climb up Mt. Hamilton. I won't be around from 11/20 through the weekend, so if you have interest please let me know ahead of time--don't plan on showing up at Peet's at 7am expecting a ride if you haven't contacted me ahead of time--we might not have room for you and your bike.

Initial 10-day forecast calls for showers on Weds/Thursday next week...let's hope that's wrong and the nice weather holds.

I am brining the turkey and making the stuffing on Wednesday so my Thursday morning will be totally free, and we'll have the usual logistics of carpooling from Peet's at 7am so everyone can get home and under the spousal/SO time limit of noon to 2pm or so. We should be able to roll at 8am, figure on 2 to 2.5 hours for the 18+ miles of climbing to the Lick Observatory, and an hour down back to the cars.

As has also been tradition, someone can post a Half-Hammie Climb to Grant County Park. Also, you will want to have a bit of coordination on your carpools--riders who climb faster and need to be back home on the early side can ride together, less time constrained folks can carpool together...you get the idea.

I will re-edit the Forum post to show the carpools--e-mail me directly if you are offering up your car/truck/van to pool--so far we have:
--Ride Captain Mark: 3 additional riders and 2 additional bikes,
--Brian: Jim plus 2 more riders and bikes
--DRD: plus one rider
--Pedro: willing to drive or ride
--Anthony D: needs ride

I haven't heard of a Half-Hammie Ride Leader. Anyone, Bueller?

Ride Captain Mark
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