Since our May 23 Napa event the Echelon team has been out traveling and networking this summer to market our Hood River Oregon Gran Fondo starting with a Dave Cochran's drive to Oregon for the Mt Hood Cycling Classic. Hunter Ziesing later departed by small plane for a trip accross country to meet some notable charities and scout out locations for 2011 Echelon Gran Fondos as well as meeting potential sponsor donors. This summer we will visit 20 states and 8 Cancer institutes. These photos chronicle our travels and marketing of Echelon.
Dave, Jana & Hunter departing Napa May 23 for Oregon
Mt Hood Cycling Classic Early June
Mt Adam stage of Mt Hood Cycling Classic
Cale Reeder Echelon M45+ team, proudly wears leaders jersey. Echelon has a small masters racing team who help fundraise and market our events. Cale Reeder quit racing for 25 years only to return to racing to dominate. His company, Cozy Winters, is a large donor to Echelon
Stopping to market Echelon in some southern OR towns
That is snow in June
That is snow in June
Flying east over the Rockies and the Beech Bonanza
Stopping in South Dakota for supplies--yes Walmart
Welcome to South Dakota
Checked out a ride in the Caribou National forest, Idaho
Flight continued East to see the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN
Copilot, "Charlie" responding to g-forces in bank turn
Stopping to stay with Greg and Kathy Lemond in MN
Spectacular country. Greg and Kathy are the nicest people on the planet.
Greg recently settled his lawsuit with Trek and is in a very good place. You will be seeing more of Greg in Cycling.
Greg recently settled his lawsuit with Trek and is in a very good place. You will be seeing more of Greg in Cycling.
Greg Lemond observing Hunter on an epic new wind trainer to come due out from Lemond Fitness this fall. A low tech solution that will blow your mind.
One of Greg's many Yellow Jerseys
Hit Toronto the next day and met with Don Listwin, early investor in Open Wave Systems and Cisco Systems. He founded The Canary Foundation at Stanford--an early cancer detection research center.
We are discussing a fondo with Canary and or Stanford. Stay tuned. Don is going to put on a cool event this fall in the South Bay SF area. Don has a lot of zero's on his balance sheet but is driven by cause and to give back.
Thanks--The Echelon Staff
Hunter Ziesing & Marcy Ziesing are back in the Boston area now.
Dave Cochran is still traveling around Oregon hitting bike shops and camping
Linda Klein (team fundraising) is at home in CA hitting the phones fundraising along with Nick Mcgowan. (fundraising and registration)
Rebecca Kotch (our marketing guru) has moved to Napa and working on projects of her own as well as Echelon.
