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February 22-23 Saturday and Sunday Camp Mihaska Hiking and Mountain Biking
Event Coordinator: Dave Reiter,
Cost: $30.00
Advanced
registration: required by February 15
Shake off your Cabin fever with a
weekend hike or Mountain Bike trip. Take I-44 to
Bourbon
May
3 Saturday Tour
De Stooges 2003
Event Coordinator: Roger Kramer,
Cost: $12.00 for HI-USA members and students,
faculty and staff of McKendree College, $15.00 for other adult riders, and
$7.00 for children under 12 and non-riders
Enjoy Illinois country roads.
Register
May 24 & 25 Saturday &
Sunday Pere Marquette Overnight (Memorial Day Weekend)
Event Coordinator: Ted Sleeper,
Cost: $15 per person includes campsite and dinner
Saturday night. There are two cabins available that hold six people each. First
come first served on these cabins for $35 per person total.
Advanced
registration: required
Join in a Memorial Day weekend
for a ride to remember. The ride will start at
Saturday night includes bonfire,
barbecued burgers and hot dogs. SAG support and transportation for your camping
gear will be provided.
June 15-20 Sunday
to Friday Cycle Across
Event Coordinator: Billie Teneau,
314-291-7860 or
Cost: $295.00 for the full tour, same as last
year!
Advanced
registration: required
This annual ride across the
beautiful state of Missouri starts on Father's day and ends near St. Louis on
the last day of spring. Tour the small towns and scenic countryside of the
“Show Me” state in a 400-mile loop. Stay overnight at high school or college
gymnasia or camp in your own tent. Fee includes S.A.G., rest stops, camping and
gymnasium accommodations, maps, marked route, breakfast and dinner.
June 29 Sunday Firecracker 100
Event Coordinators: Dennis Baute
Cost: $12.00 for HI-USA members, $15.00 for
non-members
A revolutionary event! Register
at
July 19 & 20 Saturday or
Sunday Peach Pedal 2003
Event Coordinator: Billie Teneau,
Cost: $6.00 for HI-USA members, $8.00 for
non-members, $1.00 for children under 14 with an adult
Register at Eckert’s in
August 16-17 Saturday-Sunday 39th
Annual Moonlight Ramble®
Event Coordinator: Lynn Barlar
Cost: $10.00
in advance, $15.00 the night of the event. Ticket sales begin after July 4.
Advanced
registration: prefered
Thirty nine and holding! Join us
in this St. Louis tradition! The Moonlight Ramble® rolls again.
Registration is on Chestnut in front of Soldiers’ Memorial, downtown and opens
at 10:00pm Saturday night. Ride begins at 12:01am Sunday morning. The route is
a closely guarded secret until the night of the ride but this much can be
leaked out now. The route will be between ten and twenty miles, you will be
able to see some exciting and beautiful sights around St. Louis, and you will
be in the company of 10,000 or so other riders. Mark your calendars now!
August 30 & 31 Ride
Saturday or Sunday Autumn Apple (Pie) Tour
Event Coordinator: Billie Teneau,
Cost: $6.00
for HI-USA members, $8.00 for non-members, $1.00 for children under 14 with an
adult
Register at Mills Apple Farm on
Pocahontas Rd. near Marine, Illinois any time between 8:30 & 10:30 a.m.
Ride 13, 17, or 38 miles through Illinois countryside. While there or in
advance, order a tasty pie (618-887-4732). New for ’03! Win cash prizes in a
drawing (for registered riders only) on both days at Mills Apple Farm at 2:00
p.m. ($100 first place, $50 second place, $25 for both 3rd and 4th
place.) Also new: Pizza is being added to the lunch menu. Route will be marked.
SAG services by The Cyclery (Edwardsville).
September 28 Sunday Natalie G. Kekeisen Flat-As-A-Pancake Century
Ride
Event Coordinators:John Jost
Cost: $12.00 HI-USA members; $15.00 non-members,
includes lunch
Register in New Baden Park any
time between 6:30 & 8:30 a.m. Arrows on the road and maps guide riders on a
mostly flat Century of 100 miles (options, 40 or 60 miles). All loops end in
New Baden where lunch is provided. SAG support by The Cyclery
(Edwardsville).
Natalie Kekeisen
was a long time HI-USA member and trip leader. An avid cyclist, she road over 5,000 miles each year, well into her fifties.
She led weekly rides and planned CATSUP (Cycle Around
the State Universities and Parks). CATSUP became CAMP (Cycle Around
Missouri’s Parks) and is now
Proceeds from the Natalie G. Kekeisen Memorial Flat-As-A-Pancake Century go for
leadership training and hostel development to help realize our goal of opening
a new hostel in the
October 31-November 2 Friday-Sunday
Camp Mihaska
100 Weekend
Event Coordinator: Dave Reiter,
Cost: $49.00 per person if you choose to stay in
a room with four beds. If you sleep in your own tent, $39.00.
Advanced
registration: required
Enjoy a weekend of bicycle
riding, hiking, and canoeing in the Ozarks just when the leaves are turning.
Drive I-44 to Bourbon, MO 72 miles SW of St. Louis. Then drive 2 miles south of
Bourbon on Highway N to the Camp. Bike fifty miles on Saturday (with a no-SAG
Century Option). Then bike 40 miles on Sunday. Routes cover part of the old
Route 66. Fee includes breakfast Saturday and Sunday, and dinner and
entertainment on Saturday night. Camp Mihaska is a
Salvation Army facility and includes a new, rustic, dining hall. Rooms, dorms,
and campsites are all available on the 800 acre site. Fee covers road arrows,
maps, SAG support, lodging, meals and entertainment.
Mix and match your weekend. Bike
one day, hike the next OR canoe one day and bike the next. Bike routes are
beautiful, low traffic roads. Hiking options include the Camp, Meramec State Park, or Berryman Trails. Canoeing on the