[Macomb-Cycling] [oestreich@qconline.com: GITAP-05 bike ride]

[Jeffrey R. Calhoun]

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From: "Chuck Oestreich" <oestreich at qconline.com>
Subject: GITAP-05 bike ride
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 08:45:23 -0600

Dear Bike Club President,

This is to alert you to the upcoming GITAP-05 bike ride next summer, and to ask you to support your newsletter editor in informing your club members about the ride. I have sent your editor the following information:

GITAP-05: Grand Trail, Grand Parks, Grand Time       June 12 to 18, 2005

The third Grand Illinois Trail And Parks (GITAP) ride is set to roll in mid-June of 2005. Make plans to be a participant. With new routes, parks, plans, and events, the ride will offer unique explorations of northern Illinois. It's a mid-June week-long supported bicycle tour using much of the Grand Illinois Trail and many of the state parks along the trail. The sponsor is the League of Illinois Bicyclists with support from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

The ride features tent camping (motel package available), breakfasts, dinners, T-shirt, nightly meetings, door prizes, 370 to 500 miles, on-pavement alternatives to soft trails, and an optional jersey for sale. Also the Illinois Humanities Council will be piloting a novel after-dinner discussion program.

The ride starts and ends at Joliet Jr. College, then moves to Kankakee, Starved Rock, White Pines, Rock Cut, and Shabbona State Parks. At White Pines a day-off offers varied activities ending with a dinner theater presentation. Sign-up is first-come, first-served with a limit of 160 riders.

For more information (and registration form) go to http://www.bikelib.org/gitap or contact Chuck Oestreich at oestreich at qconline.com or 309-788-1845.

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