[Paddlewise] Amgen Toure of California Bicycle Race

I am giving some thought to driving down to watch a portion of the Tour of
California bicycle race in May. I figured I might combine that with a little
paddling and camping. My idea is to watch one of the stages around San
Francisco like the one that goes to Santa Cruz or the one that starts in San
Jose. I would prefer to find a place that isn't packed with 30,000 people so
that might leave the Santa Cruz stage out.

Have any Paddlewisers watched any of the stages before? I'm wondering how
they close the roads and when you'd have to be in place in order to watch
the group pedal by. I'm aware of the fact that you'd wait hours for 5
minutes of action (not including the antics of the crowd). The stage leading
out of San Jose has a serious climb right off the bat and finding myself a
spot on that climb would be nice.

Any ideas?


Craig Jungers
Moses Lake, WA
www.nwkayaking.net
***************************************************************************
PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed
here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire
responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author.
Submissions:     PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net
Subscriptions:   PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net
Website:         http://www.paddlewise.net/
***************************************************************************