Let's meet at the Starbucks at Ventura Blvd and Topanga Blvd in Woodland Hills. From there we can go to Mulholland and do some canyons in the area, ending of course at the famous Tuna Canyon, with lunch following for those interested?
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Fellow SLK'ers! (or whatever you wanna call yourselves)
It has come to my attention we have NOT met in quite a while (I'm partly to blame, my life having gone through some interesting changes lately).
So to remedy that, I suggest a run sometime in January (14th or 15th), being as December is pretty much gone (if you include the holidays, starting next week).
SOOO who is up for a good-old-fashioned day drive? I'm up for anything, preferable something I haven't done before. Maybe Durk or somebody from down south could show me some nice roads down there?
Excellent! Also, looks like I will be joining you guys! Someone coming has agreed to let me sit in their passenger seat so I'll be toting along with you guys. I've sworn to secrecy who it is though. :-X
Some ideas:
Palomar Mountain/Lake Henshaw (76+79?) (haven't done this one so don't know if it's good)
or
Santiago Canyon Road + Ortega Hwy to Lake Elsinore (never done this, no idea)
or
Castaic Lake loop (as we did last year)
or
La Cañada to Wrightwood (might be closed or snowy?)
or
Malibu
or Santa Barbara + Solvang (probably with 1 hotel night, might be too close to date now?)
I did the Ortega Hwy from Lake Elsinore heading west (opposite direction I think you'd be going) last August and it was fantastic. We came from Palm Springs up 74 (Pines to Palms Hwy) which was also a great experience.
Ortega is fun very early in the morning before traffic starts. Probably earlier than you care for, Pablo . I vote for Palomar or Malibu. Perhaps we can get Bill out of retirement.
I see you guys also did a Wildomar run last year, was that good? I'm trusting you southerners with what would be better, I'm fine with anything in the area.
If you want Malibu that's pretty close to me so I'm fine with that too.
Oh and could we meet up at like... 10? I like to sleep in a bit on my weekends, and if we do something south I'd actually have to leave at 8.
While Palomar is a really fun run, the risk with doing it in January is that a winter storm will dump a load of snow on the mountain. While we've had fantastic weather the last few weeks (today's forecasted high is 87 here!), I'd be inclined to go with Malibu. If Bill's not participating I can study the Google Maps and come up with a route .
We can do Palomar a little later in the year, and run it all the way to the top so we can do a little side-excursion to the telescope.
Getting closer I guess, so here's a proposal. According to the weather app on my phone we're entering another pattern of rain-only-on-weekends, but hopefully it will improve as the date draws nearer.
January 21st, Woodland Hills @ 10:00am for a run of the canyons around Malibu.
Let's meet at the Starbucks at Ventura Blvd and Topanga Blvd in Woodland Hills. From there we can go to Mulholland and do some canyons in the area, ending of course at the famous Tuna Canyon, with lunch following for those interested?
Ooohh Malibu, that should be a good ride. My car is actually gonna be at the shop mid next week. Im hoping I get it back by Friday so I can go Saturday. Would love to come join so that I can finally put the faces on these cars. =)
Woohoo! Sounds like a blast!! Thanks for the PM!
I need to check schedules, but I'm 80%, and Heather is ready to drive her own R170, and I have a friend who just got his Silver R170 Sport last week, and was asking if there was a run coming up! So I may be in for 3 SLK's (hopefully no spinouts!).
Consider me met at woodland hills. That's fairly close and shouldn't be a issue with my driver. Cya soon guys!
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