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Sapphireho · 09-06-2018, 12:35 PM

The wife and I will surely be out and about in the Santa Cruz hills some time this weekend.

Horrid_Funk · 09-06-2018, 05:47 PM

If there's anyone up north bay I'm considering doing cars and coffee on sunday at Coddingtown in Santa Rosa and then hitting Stewarts Point-Skaggs Spring Rd out to 101, down the PCH, and back through the Russian River Valley. I have to be back in time for kickoff at 1:25, though haha. I've never done Skaggs Spring but I've heard it's great, and the PCH is always a blast.

DandoX · 09-06-2018, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Horrid_Funk

If there's anyone up north bay I'm considering doing cars and coffee on sunday at Coddingtown in Santa Rosa and then hitting Stewarts Point-Skaggs Spring Rd out to 101, down the PCH, and back through the Russian River Valley. I have to be back in time for kickoff at 1:25, though haha. I've never done Skaggs Spring but I've heard it's great, and the PCH is always a blast.

I may be into that. Gotta check my plans and talk to Mrs Dandox, I'll let you know.

Never enough North Bay activities

BigFatFlip · 09-06-2018, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Horrid_Funk

If there's anyone up north bay I'm considering doing cars and coffee on sunday at Coddingtown in Santa Rosa and then hitting Stewarts Point-Skaggs Spring Rd out to 101, down the PCH, and back through the Russian River Valley. I have to be back in time for kickoff at 1:25, though haha. I've never done Skaggs Spring but I've heard it's great, and the PCH is always a blast.

I've riden Stewarts Point-Skaggs Spring Rd a few years back on my SV650. Great road and beautiful scenery, but a bit bumpy and pretty worn out in some places from what I recall (my butt was glad to see the ocean and smooth pavement of hwy lol)

finch1750 · 09-06-2018, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Clipdat

My car is clean and hasn't been taken out for a fun drive in a while, so I'm strongly considering a drive this weekend. Maybe East Bay Hills (Pinehurst, Redwood, Palomares) or Mines Rd.

I'm hoping to get my new endlinks and FSB bushings in Friday night (and maybe raise the ride height a bit). Would be nice to give it a little shakedown Saturday. I'll post up Friday night with an update. I think I'm

buddysim · 09-06-2018, 06:31 PM

The half of skaggs close to the coast had a majority of its potholes fixed recently so it's pretty good now. Very little traffic even on weekend mornings. My car is in the shop but if I get it back before Sunday then I'm interested.

Clipdat · 09-07-2018, 11:38 AM

Let's drive Mines Rd, Saturday the 8th.

Meeting at Starbucks on 223 S. Vasco Rd. around 8am, leave at 8:15am or so.

Horrid_Funk · 09-07-2018, 11:59 AM

Cool, I might go scout Stewarts-Skaggs out tomorrow, I want to go hike that new Jenner headlands preserve anyways. I'm used to hitting pretty bumpy roads (I've got the OEM mudguards and I'm not lowered for a reason lol), but if it's too rough we can reconsider and try a different route. PM me if you're interested and I'll give you my number, otherwise just find my Grey BRZ at C&C and we can go from there.

Clipdat · 09-07-2018, 12:00 PM

Let us know how it goes. I've been wanting to drive Skaggs for a while now.

DandoX · 09-08-2018, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Horrid_Funk

Cool, I might go scout Stewarts-Skaggs out tomorrow, I want to go hike that new Jenner headlands preserve anyways. I'm used to hitting pretty bumpy roads (I've got the OEM mudguards and I'm not lowered for a reason lol), but if it's too rough we can reconsider and try a different route. PM me if you're interested and I'll give you my number, otherwise just find my Grey BRZ at C&C and we can go from there.

What time at the C&C?

Horrid_Funk · 09-08-2018, 06:25 PM

So Stewart-Skaggs is pretty nice actually. From Annapolis road west it's bumpy with the occasional avoidable pothole, 1 lane road kind of deal but it descends down through a redwood grove and is really quite pretty despite not being able to go very fast due to the rough road. East of Annapolis road it's all fresh road, fresh paint. The only issue is that for several miles east of Annapolis road, the road just got sealed or re-paved or whatever and there's bits of loose gravel on the roadway. Not great if you're trying to avoid rockchips so I went slowly through that section. Once the rains wash that gravel away it's going to be a fantastic drive. So depending on what we want to do we can turn around where the gravel begins or just head on through and slow it down. The PCH between Stewarts point and Jenner is pretty great so it might be worth powering through, I was with a little Fiat 500 Abarth for most of the way up it today and had a blast.

Cars and Coffee looks like it's 8-10 am. I'll probably be there by 8 and then leave at 9 or so. There were hardly any cars on Stewart-Skaggs and you have to get out really early to not get stuck behind anyone on the PCH so time isn't too important.

Clipdat · 09-08-2018, 07:28 PM

That was a fun Mines Rd drive today, minimal traffic!

0x56 · 09-08-2018, 08:43 PM

C&C + Stewart Skaggs sounds fun, unfortunatley for me I need to be back in South Bay around noon. I am itching to go for a drive so I think I'll be heading out to 9/35/84/etc likely with a stop for breakfast at Alices. If anyone wants to join let me know

Sapphireho · 09-08-2018, 10:11 PM

The wife and I will be on 35 in the afternoon tomorrow. Going for burgers at the Mountain House.

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09-06-2018, 12:35 PM	#5349
Sapphireho ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Join Date: Mar 2016 Drives: '15 ultramarine Location: Idaho Posts: 13,199 Thanks: 5,451 Thanked 18,247 Times in 8,614 Posts Mentioned: 155 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	The wife and I will surely be out and about in the Santa Cruz hills some time this weekend.

09-06-2018, 06:31 PM	#5354
buddysim Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2017 Drives: 16 BRZ, 15 FRS Location: Norcal Posts: 9 Thanks: 0 Thanked 5 Times in 4 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	The half of skaggs close to the coast had a majority of its potholes fixed recently so it's pretty good now. Very little traffic even on weekend mornings. My car is in the shop but if I get it back before Sunday then I'm interested.

09-07-2018, 11:59 AM	#5356
Horrid_Funk Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2017 Drives: 2017 DGM BRZ PP Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 123 Thanks: 41 Thanked 93 Times in 58 Posts Mentioned: 1 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Cool, I might go scout Stewarts-Skaggs out tomorrow, I want to go hike that new Jenner headlands preserve anyways. I'm used to hitting pretty bumpy roads (I've got the OEM mudguards and I'm not lowered for a reason lol), but if it's too rough we can reconsider and try a different route. PM me if you're interested and I'll give you my number, otherwise just find my Grey BRZ at C&C and we can go from there.

09-08-2018, 06:25 PM	#5359
Horrid_Funk Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2017 Drives: 2017 DGM BRZ PP Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 123 Thanks: 41 Thanked 93 Times in 58 Posts Mentioned: 1 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	So Stewart-Skaggs is pretty nice actually. From Annapolis road west it's bumpy with the occasional avoidable pothole, 1 lane road kind of deal but it descends down through a redwood grove and is really quite pretty despite not being able to go very fast due to the rough road. East of Annapolis road it's all fresh road, fresh paint. The only issue is that for several miles east of Annapolis road, the road just got sealed or re-paved or whatever and there's bits of loose gravel on the roadway. Not great if you're trying to avoid rockchips so I went slowly through that section. Once the rains wash that gravel away it's going to be a fantastic drive. So depending on what we want to do we can turn around where the gravel begins or just head on through and slow it down. The PCH between Stewarts point and Jenner is pretty great so it might be worth powering through, I was with a little Fiat 500 Abarth for most of the way up it today and had a blast. Cars and Coffee looks like it's 8-10 am. I'll probably be there by 8 and then leave at 9 or so. There were hardly any cars on Stewart-Skaggs and you have to get out really early to not get stuck behind anyone on the PCH so time isn't too important.

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