Club MINI
Puget Sound area
Join us at http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/ClubMini/


International MINI Cooper Meetup Day
Standing monthly get-togethers coordinated through use of http://www.minicooper.meetup.com. First Saturday of every month, locations vary.


April 17, 2004
"Toulin' Thru the Tulips"
The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival runs April 1-April 30. http://www.tulipfestival.org. April 17 is also the Downtown Mt. Vernon Street Fair. Route has been planned by a Skagit Valley insider to go in the back door and has almost all right hand turns. Meet at the Everett northbound I-5 truck scales at 9 AM.


May 2004
2nd Annual "Fill the Ferry Challenge"
Guemes Island ferry (San Juan Islands)
Will be either 5/8 or 5/15, see http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/ClubMini/ for local conversation regarding this and all events.


July 10, 2004
2nd Annual "MINIs Storm Alki to Greet the Seafair Pirates". http://www.seafair.com/ Meet on Harbor Avenue, just off the West Seattle Bridge, at noon. Drive will include Alki Pointe and Beach Drive to Fauntleroy. Lunch will be at Endolyne Joe's.


July 17, 2004
"Cooper Meets the Saint"
Celebrate John Cooper's 81st birthday by taking your MINI to Windy
Ridge on Mt. St. Helens.
Windy Ridge twisties have been touted by many. Exact route
has not yet been planned (suggestions have been made). The
southbound morning meeting place has not yet been determined.
Bring-your-own picnic lunch *is* planned due to remote location.
Birthday cake, anyone??
PDX MINI (Portland MINI group) members will be joining us for this
event.
*** If you would like to coordinate this event, please email
wendy@pensandpixels.com ***

August 22, 2004 (Sunday)
2nd Annual Club MINI Anniversary Picnic
Exact location to be determined - someone's house, or rent space at a park somewhere?


September 11, 2004
2nd Annual "MINIs Three Passes Challenge"
(was "Do Three Passes to Leavenworth&quot
Snoqualmie/Blewett/Stevens passes. Departs Issaquah at 9 AM, location to be determined (probably same as last year)


October 9, 2004
2nd Annual "MINIs On the Mount"
(was "Do More Passes to Mt. Rainier&quot
Hwy 410 over the pass, return on Hwys 7/12, with a run up to Paradise on Mt. Rainier in the afternoon. Departs Auburn at 9 AM (probably same location as last year)

 

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UPDATE FOR MAY 2004 "Fill the Ferry Challenge"
Posted from http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/ClubMINI/


2nd Annual Guemes Island MINI Challenge

Date: Saturday May 8, 2004
Time: 2:00 pm
Type: Club Event
Location: Causland Park, Anacortes, Washington
City/State/Zip: Guemes Island

We meet at Causland Park in Anacortes at 2:00 pm, get organized, then caravan to the Guemes Ferry dock, about 5 blocks away, to line up for the 3:00 Ferry. It would be great to line up at about 2:30. We will load the ferry, cruise to Guemes Island, tour the island, have a late lunch/dinner, and maybe a dance. Maybe a commemorative T-Shirt, too! We need 30 Mini's to break the record!!! Hope you can make it! Tim Wittman & Guemini Email dogislander@fidalgo.net

 

July 10, 2004
RIDE OF YOUR LIFE $5 "fund racing" event

As a tie in to the 2nd Annual "MINIs Storm Alki to Greet the Seafair Pirates", I am coordinating a *fund racing* event for a local charity for two hours prior to the scheduled meeting time for the Alki/Beach Drive tour and lunch at Endolyne Joe's.

Those wishing to participate in giving "joy rides" to the public please arrive at 10 AM to tour the route. Route length is approx. 1.5 miles, average speed 30 mph. Some wooded/windy road, as well as residential area included. Beautiful views of downtown part of the tour.

If you would like to participate, please complete a "Collector CARd Info Sheet" by June 30, 2004 and submit to GRNSTRK@pensandpixels.com. Please see http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/ClubMINI/ for other files associated with this and other area events.

**If anyone works for a printing company and would be willing to
donate signage for this event (as seen at MINUUSA.com), please email
wendy@pensandpixels.com THANK YOU!

 

THE FOLLOWING EVENTS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED FOR LACK OF COORDINATORS


July 17, 2004
"Cooper Meets the Saint"
Celebrate John Cooper's 81st birthday by taking your MINI to Windy Ridge on Mt. St. Helens.

August 22, 2004 (Sunday)
2nd Annual Club MINI Anniversary Picnic
Exact location to be determined - someone's house, or rent space at a park somewhere?

October 9, 2004
2nd Annual "MINIs On the Mount"
(was "Do More Passes to Mt. Rainier&quot
Hwy 410 over the pass, return on Hwys 7/12, with a run up to Paradise on Mt. Rainier in the afternoon. Departs Auburn at 9 AM (probably same location as last year)