Please join Redwood Empire Mini Enthusiasts on our biggest event planned to date. Most of the itinerary has been developed but is subject to minor change as the event date approaches. Please RSVP by February 15 so that we can book the rooms. Additionally you will have to individually reserve rooms at the hotels / motels listed prior to May 1st.

Please review the following description of the weekend planned:



06-23-06: Everyone will meet in Redding Friday night. Because members will be arriving all hours of the day and night (and possibly early Saturday morning), dinner will be on your own or with other Mini Enthusiasts you meet upon your arrival. If you arrive early enough and have made reservations, join members for dinner on a Shasta Lake Dinner Cruise

06-24-06: Participants will meet by 8:30am for a 9:00am departure. We will head west on SR-299 towards Weaverville, up SR-3 to have lunch at Trinity Center. After lunch we will take back country mountain roads to Gazelle, Weed, and eventually south to Mount Shasta. Please refer to the route map. After checking in the motel, interested participants will have a short group run to Bunny Flat on Mount Shasta. Dinner is on your own or you can join the group headed for dinner on the Shasta Sunset Dinner Train.

06-25-06: Sunday will be a very full day of driving. After departing from Mount Shasta at 9am, we will take a spirited drive to Burney Falls for an early picnic lunch and Mount Lassen for a late picnic lunch (or snack). We will return to Redding in the late afternoon or early evening depending on stops. Please refer to the route map. Plan on joining the group for dinner and spend another night in the Redding area, or just head home.

Sleeping Accomodations:

Friday 06/23/06: Oxford Suites, 1967 Hilltop Dr. Redding, CA 96002 Reservations: 1-800-762-0133 Rooms are $85-95 + 10% tax. This includes Complimentary “Full” hot breakfast, evening reception (2 drinks & hor d’oeuvres), with pool, spa, fitness center.

Saturday 06/24/06: Best Western Tree House Motor Inn, 111 Morgan Way, Mount Shasta, CA 1-800-545-7164 Rooms: Single $95/night, Double $105/night

Sunday 06/25/06: Oxford Suites, 1967 Hilltop Dr. Redding, CA 96002 Reservations: 1-800-762-0133 Rooms are $85-95 + 10% tax. This includes Complimentary “Full” hot breakfast, evening reception (2 drinks & hor d’oeuvres), with pool, spa, fitness center

Note: An event application will be developed for download shortly. Please RSVP ASAP on our calendar as well as the poll above

 

Looks like we may join your group. Probably 4 of us or more. I will be getting our newsletter out and will mention your plans and reserve by Feb.15.Great area of the Sierras for a summer run!!!!Way to go Redwoods!!!! Lisa S.N.M.

 

Mike and Tony's on Mt Shasta Blvd in Mt Shasta City had a great family-style Italian dinner 20 years ago. By the time they brought the 16-oz t-bone you were already full. FWIW, like I say, 20 years ago...

Another good road up there is the one from Happy Camp on Hwy 96 over to Hwy 199 at Cave Junction. It's steep n' twisty.

 

The Trinity-Shasta-Lassen event flyer is now available for download. Please fill out and fax or mail it to me. Thanks for your continued participation.

 

If you intend to go on our June Trinity-Shasta-Lassen Run, please mail or fax the registration to me immediately! Although you can make hotel room reservations up until the day of the run, only a limited number of rooms have been set aside at the group rate so we suggest you make reservations ASAP.

We have to send in a deposit for at least 25 members soon, for those joining us on the Shasta Dinner Train on Saturday night. Please send me a check or make a payment by PayPal ASAP to guarantee your spot as well as to guarantee the reduced rate. You will not want to miss this event or dinner. Door prizes will be awarded, but you must be present at the dinner train to participate and win.

Everyone attending this run must fill out the registration and fax or mail me the first and third page whether you intend to participate in the Dinner Train events or not. Please refer to this attached thread for additional information and registration

 

The pre-run on Friday 6/23/06 will be a full day of driving (over 300 miles) starting in Healdsburg at 9am, taking 101 and The Avenue of the Giants north, having lunch and gas stop in Fortuna about 1:30pm. We will meet up with any participants from PDX, leaving Fortuna about 2pm, to arrive in Redding sometime after 6pm. This will be a quick paced drive through the mountains with few formal rest stops. NOT FOR THE WEAK OF BLADDER. See the new run map.

 

Although you can decide to join us on this run up to the very last minute, if you plan to stay with the group in the same hotels or join us on the Shasta Dinner Train Saturday night, you should sign up very soon.

I will be accepting reservations for the Dinner Train until mid-April. I believe that the dining car we will be on will hold up to 50-54 people.... we have 34 signed up for the dinner train now, so there are only a limited number of available seats left.

This June run will be a great MINI activity that will not want to miss.

 

It's time to sign up for the Trinity-Shasta-Lassen Run if you have not already done so. See a promtional video prepared by Norm here. If you want to register for the run and/or Shasta Dinner train please refer to the Redwood Empire Mini Enthusiasts forum on NAM or the REME MegBBS forum. RSVP here.

 

SHASTA SUNSET DINNER TRAIN

We have sent the Shasta Sunset Dinner Train payment for the RSVP's sent to me to date. They have extended our final RSVP to Monday, May 15th. We must have the final payment to them by May 24th. If you have been procrastinating, now is the time to get your payment to me. This is an event you will not want to miss. If you are planning on staying with the group in Redding and Mount Shasta, you should make your hotel reservations immediately. Both hotels will extend our negoatiated reduced room rate until they run of rooms, but rooms are running out fast.

 

Hello All,
Just got off the phone with the Shasta Sunset Dinner Train. We need to have a final "head-count" for dinner by Thursday afternoon. They have three large groups going on the train June 24 (Saturday Night). They have capacity for 200.
Please let me or Peter know by Thursday about the dinner train. Otherwise there will not be any room.
Thanks,

 

We will need to get your dinner entre choices for Saturday Night

Shasta Sunset Dinner Train Entre Choices:


June Entree Choices:Please email your choice(s) to me at norm@redwoodempiremini.com

 

To All the REME Shasta Run Participants:

Just a coupe of updates
Day 1 Healdsburg:

For those of you that are going to drive Day 1 leaving from Healdsburg to Redding through the Avenue of the Giants and Highway 36 to Redding, there are several members staying the night in the Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, Windsor area.


Therefore we will have a dinner "get-together" Thursday Night on the Windsor Square. As a send-off for our run, the Town of Windsor is having a Live Concert on the Green from 5-8PM with a farmers market. There will be vendors, food, Latin Salsa Music. One the square there are several restaurants include Lepe's Mexican, KC's on the Square, and Patterson's Pub.

Shasta Sunset Dinner Train

For those of you going on the dinner train, your payment included the four course dinner, soft drinks, train ride, tax and gratuity, so your evening is already paid. If you wish any alcoholic beverages, they do offer beer and wine at an extra charge. I am attaching a copy of their wine menu so you will know what is available.

Just a reminder that the dinner train does suggest that you dress as though you were going to fine restaurant. This is California and it's a vacation spot, but you may want to bring some extra clothing (collared shirt-men/dress-women) for that evening.

If you have not done so, please send me your dinner entree choice. Please send via email: norm@redwoodempiremini.com

The Oxford Suites in Redding:

The Oxford Suites will have a section of the parking lot blocked off for our MINIs for Friday Night. This will be in front along Hilltop Drive for all to see. They will have "WELCOME MINI COOPERS" on the marquis. There are two a car washes within a 2 blocks of the hotel. If those don't work, they will have an area in the back parking lot available with hose & bucket for washing your MINI.

There will be a REME registration table set up in the pool area or the lobby. Here you will get your run booklet and goodie bag.

Saturday AM:
We will have a short "Photo Shoot" in Old Shasta on highway 299 the way to Weaverville. The highway going through old town Shasta is very wide and has great parking.

We will be having lunch at the Yellow Jacket Eatery in Trinity Center on Saturday. We will be calling them Saturday morning to give them a head count. It is a fairly small "mom & pop" restaurant with great hamburgers, salads, and sandwiches. They will have a limited menu for our lunch as they do not normally get 50 people at one time. They do have enough seating capacity for us.

Mt. Shasta:
We have not included any formal time to drive up on Mt. Shasta, but I do recommend a drive up to Bunny Flat. This is a nice drive out of town to the 7000 ft level. There is a large parking lot with great panoramic views. It's a great place to take photos. Please try to fit this in when we get to Mt. Shasta Saturday about 3PM and before we leave for dinner about 5PM. If not maybe we can try going up Sunday AM before leaving for Burney Falls.

AM Burney Falls:
We have arranged with the park ranger at Burney Falls to pre-print receipts for entry into Burney Falls park. There is a $5 per car fee. We got them to consider us all seniors, so look old when we arrive. When you get to Burney Falls they will give you a receipt for your car. Then they hope to have a parking area set aside for us. This will cut down the entry time going through the gate. We will then pay him one payment for the whole group. There is a snack bar there, but we do plan to stop in the Town of Burney for lunch.

As news develops I will try to keep you all posted.

Looking forward to a memorable run.

 

Last Call for the Shasta Sunset Dinner Train.

I have to call this AM with the final numbers. This is the LAST opportunity to sign up fo the train. We still welcome anyone who wishes to join in on the run. They just will not be able to do the dinner on Saturday.

 

Norm, thanks for keeping us informed. You are ONE dedicated Mini Dude. This is going to be such a good time. Perhaps an annual event ? Others who cannot join us this trip hope for a run next year. Glenn

 

Glenn,

We hope this will become a yearly event. There are soooo many places to go & see in this area. We could take different routes each year.

As you know this is a team effort. Peter is putting in as much time & effort as I am. There is a lot of help from others as well.

Hope everyone enjoys it enough to do it again.

 

Norm and Peter and all of REME.......I agree with Glenn! You are sooooo cool for getting this together. I am trying my hardest but the SNMC group is just not growing like I wished it would for runs and all.I'll keep it up. We do something every month.I already plan on more of your runs with Glenn and next year this Lake Shasta run I may rent a houseboat the 4 days before the run. I love Shasta and I get a week or so every summer to go.Thanks again. SNMC will be in Redding friday afternoon around 1:00 or so with our smiles on!

 

You are always welcome on any of our runs.

You will be getting to Redding hours before those of us leaving from Healdsburg. Our ETA is about 6:30pm. You should monitor our REME MegaBBS forums to keep informed on updated plans prior to this or any future events. Not everything makes it onto NAM.

We could use some input on the Tahoe run in September. Please email or pm me if you want to assist us.

 

Weather Update for the REME "Shasta Run".

Look for sunny skies, with smooth open roads, patches of early morning twisties, occasional spurts of speed, followed by intermitten down shifts.
Sunny warm days will give way to clear starry nights.

Here are the forecasted temperatures for Friday 23 & Saturday 24.

Fortuna

Fri. H 65 L 54 Sunny
Sat. H 65 L 55 Sunny

Redding

Fri. H97 L72 Sunny
Sat. H98 L70 Sunny

Old Shasta

Fri. H91 L67 Sunny
Sat. H93 L66 Sunny

Weaverville

Fri. H 87 L57 Sunny
Sat. H 88 L56 Sunny

Trinity Center

Fri. H 88 L 57 Sunny
Sat. H 88 L 56 Sunny

Mt. Shasta

Fri. H 82 L 54 Sunny
Sat. H 84 L 53 Sunny

McCloud

Fri. H 86 L 54 Sunny
Sat. H 86 L 54 Sunny

Burney

Fri. H 88 L 50 Sunny
Sat. H88 L 50 Sunny

Shingletown

Fri. H 88 L 49 Sunny
Sat. H 88 L 49 Sunny

Recommended attire: good pair of driving gloves, sun glasses, shorts.

 

How formal of attire will i need for dinner train? I hope a tie not required. Glenn

 

Glenn,
NO TIE HERE.........Nice shirt, maybe Dockers, shoes, and sock's are optional depending on the weather. That's my thought's.....No need to get all dressed up...probably the same as the awards dinner at AMVIV3 is what I'm thinking.

 

a collared tee shirt (like the REME polos) or hawaiian and not too faded or stained blue jeans without rips and tears.... after all this is California, and in the mountains much less...

but then I am usually the first person to dress down

 

You Betcha.....depending on the temp..."nice" shorts could be in order!!
Last I heard...$$$$ ..is $$$$, no matter how you're dressed. As long as we are all "clean" and "most" of the bugs are off the grille, we should be OK..

 

Hey Glenn what time does SNMC think they will be going through Sacramento?? or will you bypass it some how?? Wouldnt mind driving up with you

 

Glenn,

If you wear a tie, you'll be the only one. I will not be caught dead in a tie.
A golf shirt will be more than enough. As Peter put... "this is California".

Willum you got the idea exactly right.

 

I will update in a few days what time SNMC will be in your area. Our planned route will be meeting hiway 5 from hiway 20 mid-morning. Glenn