This year's second 600k, the Southern Tour, will start at the AmericInn in Apple Valley. This event is a double loop ride starting with a 234 mile loop going east over to Prescott in Wisconsin, down the Mississippi River to Pepin, the hilly route over to Durand then returning to Wabasha, Zumbrota and Cannon Falls for some rolling country then back to the hotel. The Day 2 loop will go west and south of the Cities down to Faribault for a section on the Sakatah trail then up to Cleveland and over to Lonsdale using parts of the William Dodd Road Ramble route. In general Loop 1 has more hills and scenary, Day 2 is flatter and has more c-store/services opportunities.
GPS links for the loops:
Day 1: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/43329473
Day 2: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/43359318
You can ride the loops back to back if you are contemplating a straight through ride.
Electronic Ride Waiver
We have worked with RUSA on an electronic ride waiver that we are now rolling out for all of our rides. This will replace our paper waivers at the start. We will still bring some as a backup. You can click here to go to the MN Randonneurs SmartWaiver page. Please fill out the form there with all the requested information. Once you click submit, an email with a download link of the electronic waiver will be sent to you, to the Minnesota RBA (Norman Ehrentreich), and to the RUSA insurance account. After that, you will be sent back to a landing page on the mnrando.org site that you can close.
| Name | |
|---|---|
| Jonas Nygard | |
| Mike Willbanks | |
| Kevin Fitzpatrick | |
| Duane Franklund | |
| Ian Buck | |
| james r shannon |