If you have pictures, ride report, or stories of your Cascade 1200 experience, please contact us at cascade1200@seattlerandonneur.org , so that we can add it to our Stories and Pictures page.

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Here’s what we have so far:

• Richard Stum’s ride report and pictures
• Flickr Group: 2010 Cascade 1200 Randonnée ( or search for 1200kJun262010 tag )
• Sounds Horrible
• The Ballad of the Cascade 1200
• Chris Heg’s Ride Report and pictures
• Is There a Rando Way? Jennifer Chang’s Report
• My Randonnée Abandonée – George Moore’s report
• Greg Courtney’s Pictures on Picasa
• Kerin Huber’s Ride Report
• Michelle Brougher’s Cascade 700
• Steve Frey’s report
• Robert Higdon’s report
• Joe Platzner’s report
• Kelly Smith’s 2010 Cascade 1240K: The Tour of the Nasty Cat. With pictures!
• Pictures from Roland Bevan’s first 1000K — chapeau!
• Joseph Maurer’s report, complete with bonus miles
• Riding on Bikes with Girls – John Fuoco’s Ride Report
• Some thoughts from the back seat of a tandem -the Twitchells’ Ride Report… Pictures
• Irene’s Big Bonk
• Sophie’s Cascade1200 Overview (en Francais)
• Dan Jensen’s Report Another first timer!

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The Rider List has been updated to include results.

Intermediate control times are available here.

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Bridgeport is ~27 miles from the Malott control. Matt reports that the groupe lanterne rouge of Roland Bevan, Marcello Napolitano, Jennifer Chang, and Irene Takahashi passed through at 17:30. All are in good spirits.

The temperature is right around 90 there, with no winds.

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60 riders have passed through Malott and are making their way up Loup Loup pass. Temperatures were a little more moderate today with highs in the mid- to upper 80’s. There are some high clouds and a westerly breeze.

Irene Takahashi is continuing on, leaving the Quincy overnight at 08:45 this morning and passing though Farmer at 15:00.

I just updated the times from Malott, and will update them again at 18:30.

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Irene Takahashi had some problems through the Rattlesnake Hills yesterday, and spent some time in the sweep vehicle before continuing on to Mattawa.

She arrived in the Quincy control at 5:09, and left a wakeup call for 8:45.  She still has some time in the bank, but it will be another long day with temps forecasted to be in the mid- to upper- 80’s

Bon Courage!

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Update at 6/28 00:10: Bill Gobie is ~15 miles from Mattawa. Irene Takahashi had ridden the sweep vehicle into Mattawa, but has recovered and been driven back to the point where she had stopped, approximately 8 miles from the Mattawa control. She is making her way into Mattawa. It’s currently 67 degrees there, with winds at 15 mph.

All other riders have passed through Mattawa, and their times are posted at http://tinyurl.com/c1200-progress.

Quincy arrivals have been updated.

The rest area is an oasis at the south end of the Vernita Bridge over the Columbia ( http://bit.ly/9QSFIk ). It’s only 14 miles from Mattawa and ~50 miles from the Quincy overnight.

To get here, the riders have already gone through the arid Rattlesnake Hills with its long false flats.

A number of riders are having some difficulties here with the heat (it was in the low 90’s) and the headwind that came up in the afternoon which the faster riders avoided.

After crossing the Columbia, riders will climb the steep hill up to a plateau which will take them into Mattawa. They’ll drop back down to the Columbia before turning onto Beverly Burke Rd to climb up to the plateau once again for the ride into Quincy. Strong headwinds are common in this area.

Matt reports that about 2/3 of the riders have made it through Vernita. We’ll be reporting times from Mattawa and Quincy shortly.

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Yutaka Moriwaki missed the turn off the main highway on the descent from White Pass last night, and continued on to the Naches control, 40 miles down the road.

When he checked in, the control workers saw that he had missed the Clear Lake control. To avoid a DNF, he needed to ride back up towards White Pass (into a headwind) to the Clear Lake control.

This gave him an additional 80 miles for the day, but he still found time to stop and enjoy the scenery. The sweep vehicle saw him on the side of the road, stopping to take pictures of the full moon over the Tieton River and the surrounding hills.

He arrived back in Naches just after 2am with the groupe lanterne rouge of Roland Bevan, Jennifer Chang and Bill Gobie, and got some sleep before continuing on.

Yutaka rides with Audax Kinki in Kobe, Japan.

Omedetō! Yutaka, yoku dekimashta

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Everyone was out of the Naches control by 6:30 this morning, heading up to the Lodgepole control. The 31K leg up to Lodgepole combined 2000 ft of climbing with a brisk headwind. It’s mostly downhill and tailwinds back to Fruitvale.

The temperature at 10am was 75 degrees under mostly sunny skies. The forecast is for temperatures up to 90 degrees with light winds.

There isn’t much shade after Fruitvale as the riders make their way through the Rattlesnake Hills until the water stop at Vernita on the Columbia River. After that it’s a short climb up That Hill to the plateau on the way to Mattawa.

We probably won’t have any time updates until Mattawa (630K) this afternoon.

I just got a call from Matt in the sweep vehicle. He reported that Vince Muoneke and Andrew Bragg had passed through Fruitvale around 10:25. Chris Ragsdale and Brian Ohlemeier followed at around 10:40. These are the first of the riders that had slept in Naches. Ken Bonner and possibly some other riders who did not sleep had come through Fruitvale earlier.

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Just before the Naches control Rick Blacker had a close encounter with a skunk, making him a little more pungent than the average day-old randonneur. This isn’t the first time a C1200 rider was sprayed– Dave Read was skunked on the preride a few years ago.

All but 16 riders are in the overnight control.

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Just talked to the sweep vehicle. Roland Bevan was the lanterne rouge, and had cleared White Pass at 10:30pm. Just ahead of him were Jennifer Chang and Bill Gobie. Temperature at the pass (4500ft) was 53 degrees under clear skies. Matt said that everyone had a great day today, with a high in the mid 70’s and a great tailwind.

The folks at the Naches control reported that Yutaka Moriwaka had missed the Clear Lake control, and is making his way from Naches back to Clear Lake. That is some serious bonus mileage…

Still trying to raise someone at Clear Lake control, and will get an update from Naches at midnight

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