Registration opens Wednesday, July 14 at 12:01 AM (Pacific Time).
To register online: sign in to your SIR member account. Don't have one? Create one. It's free!
Once you login the Register button will be visible on the right side of this page (or bottom for mobile browsers).
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Advance registration is required — we cannot accommodate same-day registration.
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Membership: All riders must have current RUSA and SIR memberships (you'll enter your RUSA number during registration). Don't have a RUSA membership? Join here (or renew if your RUSA membership has expired). Allow a few days in advance for RUSA verification.
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Online registration is open until Wednesday, August 11 at 11:59 PM (Pacific Time).
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Ride cost is $45 paid online at the time of registration.
Registration has closed for this event. We cannot accommodate same-day registration at this time.
Due to continuing COVID-19 concerns, this will be a no-contact brevet with all online registration and no manned food controls. We encourage you to bring along your own food and drink, but the route does pass through numerous towns where there are opportunities to refuel. We will report separately on specific COVID-19 protocols, which will apply not only to this brevet but also to future rides for an indefinite time period.
The online registration includes signing a responsibility waiver (using the same SmartWaiver app used for RUSA Permanents). After registering,
you'll receive a confirmation email containing a link to the SIR waiver. Complete and submit the waiver to finalize your registration.
With regard to the waiver, we're bound by RUSA insurance rules, which stipulate that riders confirm the email address entered on the waiver. Here's an overview of the process:
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Go to https://waiver.smartwaiver.com/v/rusawasir/, complete the waiver, including your email address. This link is also in your event registration email. To minimize confusion, please also use these for the appropriate fields in the waiver:
- Designated Event: Summer 600K
- Designated Event Date: August 14, 2021
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Once submitted, you will receive an email containing a link to verify the email address. Click on the link in the email. This will confirm the waiver.
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Once you've confirmed the waiver, you'll receive another email with a link to the completed waiver, and your registration will be finalized.
YOU MUST SUBMIT A COMPLETED WAIVER IN ORDER TO START THE RIDE
This route (RUSA #2256) is identical to the 2018 Spring 600K organized by Susan Otcenas and Narayan Krishnamoorthy.
Note: Riders will be responsible for making their own overnight accommodations. The official overnight control is at the
Best Western Astoria Bayfront Hotel, but there are other (cheaper) hotels in the area. Dropbag service will be provided to the Best Western and other hotels in the immediate area. Details yet to be worked out.
You'll start in Olympia and control in Centralia before heading out to Morton and Mossyrock via Centralia–Alpha Road. From the climbs of Lewis County, you'll head south along the Cowlitz River to Longview and across everyone's favorite bridge to Oregon (actually, it's terrible. Use caution and watch for logging debris in the shoulder). Climbing out of Rainier, Oregon, you'll reach Apiary, named in the late 1800s by a beekeeping postal worker, but better remembered by you as the false summit before Camp Wilkerson (kilometer 233). A well-earned descent to the Nehalem River will bring you to Vernonia, Oregon, your last chance to buy supplies before the overnight control in Astoria, 100 kilometers away. Water and bathrooms are available in the Jewell Meadows Wildlife Area (watch for elk) about halfway to Astoria and just before your climb over the Northern Oregon Coast Range. Overnight in Astoria and get some rest before day two.
The second day of this 600 begins with the epic Astoria–Megler Bridge, which is the longest continuous truss bridge in North America. You'll start high on the Oregon cantilever-span side; keep that momentum for the low central span and you'll be across before you know it. The route then follows the Lewis and Clark Highway past Dismal Nitch Cove (Captain William Clark was having a rough time of it) and up through Naselle. Continuing north along Willapa Bay, you'll pass through Nemah, Bruceport, and South Bend before arriving in Raymond, home to the word's most interesting 24-hour Chevron (and your first opportunity for supplies since Astoria). Oh, and other places to get food, too. You'll then follow the coast up and around to Cosmopolis where I hear they have another Chevron. At this point, with less than 100 kilometers to go, you'll probably be feeling like Captain Clark, but the lovely Blue Sough Road should give you a little pick-me-up before Montesano. According to Wikipedia, settlers nearly named it Mount Zion, but "Samuel James suggested 'Montesano' as having a more pleasant sound and meaning about the same." I don't know about that, but it's where the Melvins are from, so there you go. I digress. The route continues along Monte–Elma Road and into McCleary where you can get a nice bite to eat at the Rain Country Restaurant before the final climb into Olympia on Hwy 8. Zigzag across town to the finish at La Quinta: you're done
Narayan's pre-ride report from 2018:
https://blog.seattlerando.org/?p=1135
Route and Cuesheet:
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/36759462
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Note:
Printed cuesheets will not be available at the start. You may choose to print your own. To print the cuesheet from the
route page, click the
More button, then select
Print Cuesheet.