AACC News

Hi Everyone,

I am looking forward to seeing you at the Alta Alpina Spring Membership meeting on April 20th at the CVIC hall in historic downtown Minden, the same place as last year. If you can’t make it to the membership meeting, or you want to renew your membership early, go to altaalpina.org and click on the Renew Membership button on the Right side of the home page.

It’s hard to believe that March 1st is here. Twain Berg has been very busy this off season coming up with new rides, more leaders, competitions and more opportunities for club members to join each other on the road and dirt. Check out the AACC Ride Board, there are already some new rides being posted for the next few weeks. Di Bolton has this season’s club road race schedule finalized and will kick off in late April. MTB race/ride series details are still being worked out as Mike Beam, the coordinator for the past three years is unable to continue. We are looking for ways to increase the number of rides for our Tahoe members too. You can count on many of our club’s annual line of events like the G’ville 100, Pinenut Cracker, Carson Valley Classic, King (and Queen) of Kingsbury, Genoa Cyclocross.

The main event this year is the Alta Alpina Challenge on June 13th beginning and ending at Turtle Rock Park. An inaugural event that has the potential of becoming a “must do” ride on the regions’ summer ride calendar, and the major fund raiser that allows AACC to continue it mission of supporting all forms of cycling in the Lake Tahoe, Carson City, Carson Valley and Markleeville region. The planning, organization and staging of the Challenge is rolling along. The Challenge will have something for every club member to get involved in, and there will be opportunities to ride too. There is an opportunity and a need for everyone to participate. The promise of next year depends on the success of this years’ Challenge. In order to organize our membership and match you to a volunteer position you are interested in, please follow this link to Survey Monkey to fill out a very brief questionnaire.

There is so much going on it’s hard to put it all in one news item. There is more to come. Make a point to attend the spring membership meeting to learn more, and check the AACC web page frequently as new items are being put up almost daily, thanks to our web master Dennis Pederson, and club members like you posting rides. Please, please, please fill out the Alta Alpina Challenge, Riding the Wild Sierra, volunteer questionnaire at Survey Monkey (link above).

I’ll see you on a ride soon! All the best.

Peter