Freeing Up Walden Rooms

Some riders have recently withdrawn from our event, and a couple of those had booked rooms at the North Park Inn in Walden (because they were on the book-your-own-room option).

If you do need to withdraw, and you have a room you can free up, please announce it on the Colorado High Country Google Group (as a rider did this morning!). 

If you are looking for a room to book, you may want to follow that Google Group.

We plan to free our extra event-reserved rooms sometime in June.

Thanks, and hope your training is going well!

-john lee

Start/Finish Lodging and Travel Survey

Here's a short survey (four questions), which will help us plan start and finish activities, and will aid in making arrangements with our hostel hotel, the Louisville Quality Inn:

If you have a moment, please take the survey:

Start/Finish Lodging and Travel Survey

Thanks!

-jle

Louisville Transport and Lodging Update

We will be updating the 2016 Info for Riders, which has info on Louisville lodging and transport from Denver International Airport. In the meantime:

Transport from/to DIA

• We continue to recommend RTD-Denver's airport bus service (route AB). Fare is $10.50 one way and there is plenty of room for bike and other baggage. About ¼ mile travel to the Quality Inn, and under a mile to other hotels.

• There had been airport shuttle services such as SuperShuttle, but the landscape has changed. We will be looking into recommendations.

• There are of course ride-hailing providers such as Uber or car rental. It's about 33 miles from the airport to the start/finish area.

Lodging at Start/Finish in Louisville

• When we checked with our traditional host hotel, the Quality Inn - who have served us very well in the past - they weren't offering any discounts because of a special event that week. Checking just now, the rates are still higher there than nearby hotels ($199 in Google map below).

© Google Maps

• For these reasons, we will probably not reserve a block of rooms as we have in the past for riders to book. But we will see if we can arrange space to store your bike boxes and baggage, as they have done in the past (while not requiring you to keep a room during the ride). 

Stay tuned as we update everyone on these and other logistics!

-jle

Confirmed and Waitlisted Riders

 We've now processed the first-day registrations (thanks, everyone!).

• There were 54 first-day registrants.
• Of these, 23 had been registrants when CHC'20 was cancelled, so they got confirmed spots.
• The remaining 31 were put in a lottery, to fill out the remaining confirmed spots (27) and start the waiting list (4).
• Riders registering after 2/15 got spots on the waiting list in order of registration.

Next steps:

• Flag riders' qualification status.
• Determine how many rooms to release at the North Park Inn for possible booking by those who'd like single occupancy.

-jle

Registration Reminder

Sent 14-Dec-2021

We're sending you this note because you are on the Colorado High Country 1200k interest list for 2021.

• Registration is (still) set to open Monday, February 15, 12:00 am Mountain Time (07:00 UTC). 

• You will be choosing between two Entry Fee options. At this point, there's no feature to change from no lodging to lodging, or vice versa. We will be seeing what we can do leading up to the event.
• $400 - including three nights’ lodging (double occupancy), dropbag transport to overnight site (Walden) and back, and food offerings at that control.
• $230 - same as above but with no lodging provided - you will need to make your own bookings.

• Lodging - To recap: choosing the “no lodging” option allows you to make other lodging arrangements in Walden - if you prefer to avoid double occupancy -  or elsewhere if you were not planning to sleep in Walden anyway. We currently have reserved all the rooms at the host motel, the North Park Inn. Based on feedback, we've decided to wait a day or two to release rooms to be available for single occupancy. That allows us to see how many riders want single vs. double rooms, and be more intelligent about how many rooms to release. At that point, we'll let you know, and registrants who want single rooms can make their own bookings.

• Registration Reminders (repeated from the prior update) - 
• To be considered a registrant, you need to fill in the application and send your payment.
• First-day registrants who were registered in 2020 when the event was cancelled get priority. 
• Other first-day registrants will go into a lottery if we have over 50 total the first day.

• Start/Finish Motel - We are planning on using the Quality Inn in Louisville as our host start/finish motel, as we have in the past. They have always provided us good service.  We have not yet booked a special rate with them, but in the past, they've been able to apply this retroactively to riders' bookings.  There are also other hotels within a half-mile radius. 

• Rider Info - We will be posting this year's rider info, including services en route, and transport to/from the Denver airport, but you can get an idea by looking at the 2016 rider info page.

• Colorado High Country Blog - We'll be posting this update on the Colorado High Country Blog. The Blog is your primary channel for getting updates to you, so be sure to follow the blog after you register.

Thanks for your interest and feedback!

-jle

for the CHC'21 Team

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Added notes:

• Room Sharing - If you are planning on sharing a room, feel free to mention roommate preference(s) in the Remarks field on the application form.

• Registration Link - The CHC Main Page will be updated with a Registration link later today.

• First Day Registration - Remember that you have all day to be a first-day registrant. No rush. :-)

2021 Registration, Lodging, and Other News

Sent to the Interest List riders, 1/31/2021 ...

 We're sending you this note because you are on the Colorado High Country 1200k interest list for 2021.

• Registration is set to open Monday, February 15. We’ll send out another reminder in advance of the opening.

• There will be two Entry Fee options:
• $400 - including three nights’ lodging (double occupancy), dropbag transport to overnight site (Walden) and back, and food offerings at that control.
• $230 - same as above but with no lodging provided.

• Lodging - Choosing the “no lodging” option allows you to make other lodging arrangements in Walden - if you prefer to avoid double occupancy -  or elsewhere if you were not planning to sleep in Walden anyway. We currently have reserved all the rooms at the host motel, the North Park Inn, but will be releasing some in time for registration. There are also other motels in town, and elsewhere on the course.  More details on room-sharing to come.

• Rules for Riders - Always good to review the Rules for Riders, including such provisions as: "The vehicle must be powered solely by the rider." and "Personal support is only allowed at checkpoints."

• Registration Reminders - 
• To be considered a registrant, you need to fill in the application and send your payment.
• First-day registrants who were registered in 2020 when the event was cancelled get priority. 
• Other first-day registrants will go into a lottery if we have over 50 total the first day.

• Colorado High Country Blog - We'll be posting this update on the Colorado High Country Blog. After registration opens, the Blog will be the primary channel for getting updates to you, so be sure to follow the blog after you register.

Thanks for your interest, and we hope you can join us if your plans allow!

-jle

for the CHC'21 Team

A Few Images from CHC'16!

1. Weather (wind) forecast for event, Walden, CO. [NWS]

2. Cameron Pass 10,276 ft. [JLE]

3. Beaver Creek wildfire near Wyoming. [JLE]

4. Paul Foley and Vernon Smith heading into Saratoga, WY. [JLE]

5. Paul Foley and Vernon Smith heading into Saratoga, WY. [JLE]

6. Snowy Range in Wyoming, 10,800 ft. [JLE]

7. Camp store at Woods Landing, WY [JLE]

8. Grand Lake [JLE]

9. Pre-Dawn heading to Cameron Pass from Walden [JLE]

10. Early miles in Boulder County. [JLE]

11. Boulder County pre-dawn - smoke plume from wildfire. [JLE]

12. Large group in Larimer County. [JLE]

13. Kieran Johnson [JLE]