Coyote Two Moon Ultras March 13-15, 2009 Los Padres National Forest, Ojai, CA Base of Operations: Thacher School, Ojai, CA

Coyote Two Moon 2009 Results

While the running is challenging enough, the Coyote requires more than just able and motivated feet. Ya gotta play the game... which means the results reflect more than just raw time from Start to Finish. Bonus and Boner Minutes, indicating one's participation and behaviors, were doled out according to a strict standard and defined list of opportunities. Veterans of Coyote experiences earned some bonus minutes just for showing up; anyone who showed up early for miniature golf, 'talent' show, trail time or bowling earned instant bonus minutes; and veterans and fresh meat alike earned boner minutes for the slightest infractions (e.g., don't p.o. the RD).

The C2M experience can't, nor ought to, be reduced to one person's summary view, and certainly not the RD's. The best picture is a collection of stories from those who were there, as runner, crew or volunteer. Surfing the blogosphere you'll discover both common and unique encounters. A few common themes: unexpected camaraderie and newfound friends, endless climbs, incredible moonlit and daylight views from the ridge, fabulous culinary fare (pate!!) at spectacular aid stations, 'a good time was had by all'... Unique encounters: Wendy's sole mid-afternoon view of mother and cub bear crossing the ridge road, Eric Clifton winning the Testosterone Dinosaur, Kirk Fortini getting the coveted Hubcap 'Wheels Fell Off' award, Moondoggy and Sparkles' skit at Sisar Canyon A/S (and yes, on YouTube!!). Together, both suggest something 'not quite right' and beyond normal conversation, even among the weird crowd of ultrarunners. And perhaps the collection of stories, lingering in minds like the last two ounces of beer sloshing in the bottom of the glass, or getting retold with increasingly obscure and questionable facts to rolling-eyes audiences, will bring those same story tellers back to C2M, with more fresh meat in tow.

So, here are the 'official' results (if you're in 'em, and don't like 'em, well, it's your log book, and your story to tell...). Eddie had so many bonus minutes coming into the event, that his DNF quickly became a Finish, and a fine one at that (sorry, TropJohn, you had to at least come to the show to get in the rankings...)!! And Roch's flagrant/fragrant disregard for his own self-esteem - yes, yes, he sucked up a lot, but he also donated boatloads - rocketed him to the top of the 100 miler list...

Event Format

Welcome!! To the 2nd offering of the Coyote Two Moon Ultras, ultra-idiocy of its own personality, designed to both challenge you and entertain our volunteers (through your suffering). While the "main event" is only Fri-Sun, we hope you'll take advantage of other entertainment earlier in the week - casual runs in Pt Mugu State Park, Miniature Golf, Bowling, Talent Night, and whatever other wanderings you care to make in and around Ventura or Ojai (most of which will earn you Bonus Minutes!!). C2M ain't for the overly serious, so if your friends already berate you for such a 'tude, consider finding another event at which to throw your dollars. Come for the challenge, the fun, the camaraderie, and especially the pate...

Thacher School / Start-Finish

We're electing to change S/F locations, to Thacher School in Ojai, for several reasons, trading off options to produce the best balance among options. So, for example, while we won't have the amenities (trout pond, plumbed showers and bathrooms) that the Ranch offered in '08, you'll have a tougher course by S/F'ing on the more accessible and Sunday morning-warmer Ojai side of the Ridge. Woo-HOO!!

We'll be using the hockey field right behind the Horn Canyon T/H for our base of operations. The field is about 1/8 of a mile from the parking area on campus. While the campus will be on Spring Break during our event, our movements related to C2M will be restricted to space closest to the hockey field. On the field, we intend to have a large tent under which our volunteers will manage the Start-Finish activities and the Sunday brunch will be delivered; and under/adjacent to we'll have our Sunday "Awards" Program. The field will also serve as camping space, with portapotties on a far corner. The website will soon host pictures to help you visualize the layout of the Thacher area we'll be occupying.

Donations to Thacher School

Your entry already includes contribution to Thacher, anticipating that we'll write them a check for at least $1500 by weekend's end. If you wish to donate more, please include that amount with your entry and indicate the amount specifically donated; or, feel free to donate privately/separately under another cover. (www.thacher.org)

Staggered Start

The objective is to get everyone finishing within a four hour window and done by 10:00 AM Sunday. That entails calculating how long it ought to take any one runner to conquer the course within a specified window of time. Your entry form information provides the best starting point, but actual starting times will be assigned by the RD and his dubious staff of smoothie barristers a few weeks before the event.

Explaining the Staggered Start Logic

There isn't any. Absent arguable logic, our smoothie barristers will find some way to pigeonhole you into a start group that will put you at comparable risk for finding the finish as anyone else out there, so don't EVEN think of whining about your start group assignment (bribes without whining may be entertained; bribes with whining will be dismissed outright). C2M '09 will introduce the Sandbagger Protocol (originating from Round One's four misfits KumedaGillesOwensQuivey), which likely will only impact the 1st three start groups. If we accidentally assign you to a too-slow start group (based on your bogus predicted time), and you move quickly enough to get ahead of the opening times for the down-course aid stations, you'll just have to suffer out on the course without our aid, or cool your jets until the aid station staff show up. Breech the Sandbagger Protocol, and expect buckets of grief poured over your tattered soul (go ahead, try to picture what that might look like).

Bonus/Boner Minutes

Acquiring the first will result in faster "official" finish times; acquiring the latter will result in slower "official" finish times. Both are intended for distribution only for those who actually finish before 10AM Sunday, although if a runner hasn't already been stopped at Gridley Top for missing a cut off and finishes after 10AM, if s/he has accumulated enough Bonus Minutes, s/he may yet find hermself on the "official" finishers' list.

Bonus Minutes can be acquired by...

(a) participating in pre-event activities; or

(b) for those in town but just too wired/anxious and/or asocial to partake of such frivolity, visiting local touristy places, with brochures as proof, to help one momentarily forget the task at hand and maybe even relax for a bit (a specific list of sites to visit and be suitable for acquiring Bonus Minutes will be distributed one week in advance of the event, to prevent local runners from hedging their bets and glomming onto brochures in the preceding weeks (a definitely unbalanced and potentially inappropriate skewing of minutes, fershur)); or

(c) for antics on the course between Start and Finish (those details explained as simply as these instructions when we see you at the pre-event briefing).

(2) Bonus Minutes for pre-weekend, non-group participation activities will be limited to 15 minutes (comparable to opting out of both trail opportunities on W/Th and missing the planned evening activities).

(3) Bonus Minutes can be increased based on level/value of participation. E.g., Bowling will yield Bonus Minutes, and bowling particularly noteworthily may yield still more minutes! As of yet, theoretically there appears to be no limit to the number of minutes one can acquire, tho practically you may as well just stay home and twiddle in front of the TV if you're so easily distracted towards grabbing Bonus Minutes over just getting out to run.

(4) 100M'ers will earn 10 minutes per "incident" while 100K'ers will earn 5 minutes per "incident." An "incident" is something that falls within those categories in para (1) above.

(5) Boner Minutes can be earned across several opportunities, prime among them not paying attention to / responding in a timely manner to e-mails from the RD or Zombies (when such e-mails ask for your input); whining because your C2M experience isn't the perfection you'd anticipated, from submission of your application through post-race issues (e.g., your drop bag for Gridley Bottom consisted of a Safeway plastic bag with your lucky "Final 15 Miles" socks inside, and somehow that inconsequential plastic bag just didn't quite find its own way back to the Finish); making life difficult for any one volunteer; or generally just being a pain in the tush (that term open to many interpretations). So, f'r'instance, earn 45 minutes of Boner Minutes, and your 29:38 finish time quickly reverts to over 30 hours of slogging towards the Finish...

(6) Each volunteer will have Bonus and Boner Minutes to award - 15 minutes for a 100M'er, 10 for a 100K'er. If you can suck up to that many volunteers, and go nuts on pre-weekend festivities, just ponder how sweet it would be to see an "official" time that scores better than Kyle Scaggs' HardRock kickass time. How you later relate the story of how you earned your reward is your business. And as the saying goes, "it's YOUR log book, you can write anything you want in it..."

(7) Bonus/Boner Minutes are not negotiable, tho the B/B Bogeyman will certainly enjoy the entertainment of your argument.

Goodies

Every entrant gets a Patagonia technical performance shirt, choosing from a small assortment of colors. 100M'ers also get a stitched Patagonia jacket, again with a color choice. 100M finishers earn a distinctive Coyote Two Moon belt buckle. You get one, and only one, regardless of how many times you finish the event. Should you not finish the first time, your buckle will be held in reserve until the day you do finish. 100K'ers earn their jacket when they finish; as with the 100M'ers, your finisher award will be held in reserve should your first attempt at finishing not pan out, until that eventful day when you do finish. When you return, of course, that means your entry fee will be lower for not having to purchase another jacket. Beyond the really spiffy stuff, you'll also get some other goodies in your entrant bag that surely will enthrall you and make you ever so gleeful that you decided to do Coyote Two Moon.

Two meals are included with your entry - Friday noon's and Sunday morning's brunch. The former will include pasta'ish fare from Boccali's (google 'em to see their general menu), just down the road from Thacher. The latter will include eggs, bacon, fruit, and pancakes.

Awards

See Goodies above. Different from many other 100's, there won't be any "greater value" awards for high place finishers over those who consume pretty much the whole dang allotment of time. To say, the slow folks' money doesn't go into a pot to insure the fastest runners walk away with big boodle. However, there likely will be other award recognition in other odd performance categories, hopefully more embarrassing than pride-filling...

Volunteers

Everyone's entry does help pay for the shirts and meals for the volunteers. To repeat the Application, over time we expect to draw volunteers from the ranks of entrants - before you can run your third Two Moon, you'll need to volunteer. Should the event have a life past five years, before you run your seventh Two Moon, you'll volunteer again. We intend to pamper our volunteers with pre-event activities and accolades, because they will get abused during the event. If you become a repeat offender at Two Moon, you'll be included in that special group, too.

WAIVER

Will be sent electronically to all accepted runners, to be completed, signed and presented when you show up on either Friday or Saturday.

Refunds

If you exit before 11/15/08, you'll get all but $39.99 returned. If you must drop before 1/15/09 or before our apparel order goes in (whichever is earlier), you'll get about $39.99 returned. After that date, consider your investment "sunk costs" with your surplus hopefully going into the Thacher donation.

2009 Coyote Two Moon Schedule of Events

Below is the general schedule; more specific times and locations for pre-event activities will be provided at a later date - this preliminary one hopes to reel you into the entire game. You'll earn Bonus Minutes (BM) for playing into the agenda below!

NOTE: Costs associated with participating in the pre-weekend activities will involve writing a separate check to the RD. Costs for each activity will be set sometime before November, with your signing up for these activities expected to be relatively firm before year's end. Last minute sign up, assuming space availability, may involve an elevated cost.

2009 Coyote Two Moon 100K/100M Start Groups

2009 Coyote Two Moon Bowling Teams

Sylvia Wene, in her 1959 seminal book The Woman's Bowling Guide, addresses one of the crucial aspects of presentation at the lanes - deodorants! "Nothing spoils the illusion of feminine daintiness and, in a sport such as bowling, makes you feel more conspicuous than unsightly perspiration stains. Therefore a good antiperspirant and deodorant should be used. And not only under the arms, but this same antiperspirant should be placed at the bend of the knee and the crook of the arm."

[Dunderhead's question & comment: does "...antiperspirant should be placed..." mean the antiperspirant dispenser should be duct-taped behind the knee and crook of the arm, thus requiring four more applicators? Would this also suggest that, since the male clearly perspires more effusively than the softer gender, a masculine antiperspirant should be applied head to toe, as one would meticulously wax one's cross country skis? What was in their minds, eh?]

Ed & Tom Shircel, brothers in Sheboygen, Wisconsin, are both fine bowlers with several perfect 300 scores under their belts. But in [late December], they went themselves one better: each bowled 300 while playing for the same team in the same game. (from The Week, of 12/26/08)

Don Doane, 62, after 45 years of trying, finally rolled a perfect game, then promptly died of a massive heart attack as his teammates congratulated him. "It was like a book, a final chapter," said teammate Tood Place. "He threw his 300 game with all of his friends, gave each other high-fives, and it's like the story ended. He died with a smile on his face."

2009 Coyote Two Moon Ultras - The Courses

The simple explanation - Nordhoff Ridge behind Ojai serves as the spine off which seven different trails spider. The 100M'ers will do them all; the 100K'ers will avoid two of them. Since we start on the eastward end of the Ridge, you'll first capture those trails, and work your way back west to finish with Pratt/Cozy Dell and Gridley trails before making your way back across the Ridge and down Horn Canyon to Thacher/Home/Finish. Elsewhere in the program is the spreadsheet indicating in-sequence mileage between aid stations. Cross-reference the spreadsheet with the Google map of the course (an updated one to be provided as soon as our digital cartographic geeks can figure it out), and you'll have a good picture of what you'll be finding out there. Having your own Tom Harrison map of the Sespe Wilderness may also prove priceless to your own sanity... (And if you come for some pre-event running in PMSP, get Harrison's for that area, too.)

By prose, for 100M'ers, Start at Thacher, climb Horn Cyn to Sisar Road; take Sisar Road down to Sisar Cyn A/S; climb back up then access White Ledge trail to Lion Canyon A/S, with short out 'n back diversion to top of Topa; down Lion Cyn to Rose Valley A/S; climb back up to Lion Cyn A/S; down White Ledge to Sisar Road, then up to Ridge Junction A/S; across Ridge Road then down chip seal road to Rose Valley; back up chip seal to Ridge Road, then down Howard Creek trail to Howard Creek A/S at the road; back up Howard Creek to Ridge then down to Gridley Top A/S; up towards Nordhoff Peak then down Pratt/Cozy Dell trails to Cozy Dell A/S on Hwy 33; back up Cozy Dell/Pratt trails to Gridley Top; down Gridley Trail to Gridley Bottom A/S; back up to Gridley Top; then across the Ridge and down Horn Canyon Trail to the Finish. For 100K'ers, you'll climb up Horn, then turn left toward Ridge Junction A/S, and now follow the same course as the 100M'ers. Tiring just to read about it, huh?

Ups and Downs

Profile map in the works. Basically, the same ups and downs as '08, but the updated version will show a different sequence. It may look easier, but we're banking otherwise...

Course Markings

Reflective tape will be your primary course markings, and generally placed only near areas of confusion / trail turns, with none on long stretches where there's no place else to go but cross country across the wilderness. The tape will be combination of orange survey tape and silvery reflective tape (as one might see in a field of grape vines, to keep pesky birds away).

Crew

Crew can only meet you off-Ridge, though no crews will be allowed at Sisar A/S. Even if you have someone who's willing to find their way to the Ridge, they're not invited, and will be cause for your disqualification should they somehow just happen to appear and give indication of supporting you. As the event progresses and more and more people appear almost simultaneously at the Aid Stations, priority for space and movement will be given to A/S volunteers and the runners they're assisting. If you have the luxury of a crew, please insure you and they take care of you in space that doesn't impede the normal A/S operation. Depending on how many crews are in operation, parking at Gridley Bottom, Cozy Dell, Howard Creek and Rose Valley may be tightly controlled. So if you're bringing a crew, you have responsibility for educating them about both the above protocol and good manners when dealing with Volunteers who are looking at a bigger picture than your own personal agenda.

Pacers

As mentioned in the Application, none, keine, zip, no way. Initially intended just for the early miles - cuz you'll pick up friends/pacers as the field compresses down-course - if you're in need of companionship early on, then stick with someone in your start group. Enjoy the company!!

Aid Stations

Three staffed on-Ridge: Lion Cyn (100M'ers only, visited twice), Ridge Road Junction (two visits), and Gridley Top (three visitations). Probably two unstaffed on-Ridge stations, to improve access to water on longer hauls between on-Ridge stations (e.g., Lion's Cyn to Ridge Junction, then again Gridley Top to Ridge Junction). Six off-Ridge stations: Sisar Cyn (no crew access), Rose Valley (two visitations), Howard Creek, Cozy Dell and Gridley Bottom. Each staffed station will be stocked with vittles and liquids to keep your tummy happy, across the different meals one encounters thru the day. I.e., you likely may have pancakes in early day, then be treated to crackers and pate for happy hour later in the day. Medical supplies will be marginal at best, so if you're prone to hellacious blisters and/or blood upchucking abdominal gyrations, plan to carry your own salve and mystery potions. Most of any truly wondrous treatment you may wish to receive likely will occur at the off-Ridge stations, since the on-Ridge stations won't have the flexibility or luxury to add to their capability or inventory once they get to the Ridge - their first priority is basic needs, luxury items added only if there's room in the vehicles transporting the staff and their supplies to the Ridge.

Drop Bags

Accessible only at the off-Ridge A/S's. Your bags must be at the S/F NLT than 4PM on Friday (all 100M'ers and early start 100K'ers) or 10AM Saturday (for later 100K start groups only, but then only for Howard Creek, Cozy Dell and Gridley Bottom A/S's), else you'll just have to camel for yourself the rest of the weekend. With potential not insignificant variations between off- and on-Ridge temperatures, suggest you plan at least to carry a suitable windbreaker for those time periods when the swing between middle of the night and sun-warming daylight is the most prominent. The on-Ridge stations do not plan to cater to shivering bodies - they'll be intent on keeping themselves warm (you're moving, they won't be) so they can best serve you. Robbing them of their own heat because you didn't plan well enough for your own will only jeopardize good support for all runners. You'll mark your bags for these stations: Sisar Cyn, Rose Valley, Howard Creek, Cozy Dell and Gridley Bottom.

Weather

60 years of recorded data for Ojai yield averages of about 70F as high, 41F as low for the month of March. On the ridge, the highs can feel warmer, the colds actually much cooler. If we have reasonable precipitation this winter, snow on Topa may linger. In normal years - try finding one recently - winter rains have dissipated by March. Heck, since this is a full moon ultra, we're banking on clear skies so the moon can help you navigate at night...

Plan B for CaCa Weather: You'll want to pay attention to this one, cuz if you don't, and you show up to start the event under poor weather conditions, your ignorance of how we approach foul weather can only improve your chances of bagging the whole game earlier than expected...

For starters, if rain and high streams precede the event, we may even shift the Start/Finish to elsewhere in Ojai. We've done it before for C4P, so this won't be a "new" experience. Just hope that fires don't totally dork things up...

Reaching our on-ridge aid stations by 4 wheel drive vehicles can only be accomplished using the one and only road to the top, out of the Rose Valley campground. The road is steep (you'll find out just how much during the event) and its composition especially fragile (for vehicular travel) when recently rained upon. Almost every year after winter has reasonably departed, a ranger crew levels out the ruts, displaces the larger rocks/boulders, and attends to other erosion. If the rangers tell us the road isn't suitable for vehicles, we don't go up the road. If we don't go up the road, much of our planned support for you diminishes greatly, which then shifts emphasis for your well-being to just the off-ridge aid stations.

How are we planning for the worst? For starters, we're tagging each weekend starting 2/14 for a chance to use vehicles to at least load in the fluids. And we can hope that sometime in advance of that weekend, and continuing through to C2M, the rangers will have suitable conditions to clear the road for our vehicles. Secondly, and glad that we have many able-bodied volunteers, we'll likely re-distribute some people, so that those who can reach the ridge using their own leg and back strength, can carry in bare minimum supplies and treats (that does not include blankets to warm your weary souls...) to get you on your way to a more bountiful station off-ridge. The second tactic is fairly under our control; the first is not.

Should we not get fluids to the top before the event, because of persistent wet weather preventing use of the road to the ridge, you should plan to do this: (1) use a hydration system (we once called those "water bottles") that will allow you to motor between 11 and 18 miles (100M'ers) or 11 and 14 miles (100K'ers). There are a couple natural water sources out there, and we'll let you know where those are, but for planning purposes, those won't serve as regular, accessible water. (2) use a fuel containment system (aka "pack") to carry whatever solids and drugs you'd likely need to cover those same distances, and under differing conditions - coolness of night, warmth under the daylight sun. And regardless of having fully-stocked on-ridge stations, your clothing needs for a potentially big swing in temperatures off- and on-ridge may dictate more room in your FCS ("pack") for such comfort. (3) if you love the adventure that risk offers you, and you elect to minimize your preparation under either (1) or (2) above, and you drift into an on-ridge station with even a slight indication of stress and whineyhood, we'll likely just pat you on your popo and nudge you out of the station towards homebase, for we surely don't want you out on the ridge putting our volunteers and the event at risk just to satisfy your personal thrills for danger.

Watch the C2M Program Page and/or C2M Forum, certainly not later than a few days before C2M, to get the latest news on how weather may impact the week's/weekend's frivolity...

100 Miler Course Map

Oxnard Map

Driving Instructions

(Navigating through these instructions will be substantially enhanced if you can also cross-reference either the Google Earth image (w/ the push-pin landmarks of C2M) or Sespe Wilderness map of Ojai. Without those or another map, what follows is just narrative.) Once in town, of course, it gets easier. Start Point is the juncture of Rtes 33 and 150 at the western end of Ojai.

From the Start Point, heading North (toward the mountains, away from Ventura) on Hwy 33:

(a) 3 1/4 miles to Cozy Dell A/S site, with parking on the left side of the road (opposite direction in CD Parking B picture), with the Cozy Dell TH sign at the far end of the dirt lot.

(b) Another 4.5 miles up Hwy 33 is the Wheeler Gorge Campground, shortly after which you'll begin a 6+ mile curvy ascent - and be careful in this stretch; it's a popular biker route on weekends - to the turn-off for Rose Valley, just at the rise of that climb. You'll see a sign before the turn-off, then just after the turn onto the road, your sanity check is this sign.

(c) About three miles down RV Rd is a right turn, with signage just before that, for the Rose Valley Campground, the camp less than half a mile from that junction.

From the Start Point, heading East (parallel with the mountain) on Hwy 150:

(a) After approximately one mile, you'll come to the stoplight that marks "downtown" Ojai, and at the right end of that next block is the town's character coffee shop.

(b) About another mile past that stoplight is the left turn (with signage just before it) onto Gridley Rd, towards the Gridley A/S.

(c) Gridley Rd dead ends at the A/S (GB Parking B). Parking is very limited there, so overflow parking will be directed just under a half mile down to the Shelf Road access (GB Shelf Rd).

(d) About 1.3 miles beyond the turnoff for Gridley Rd sits Boccali's (at the "Y" with Reeves Rd), a popular local eatery (yummy pizzas and other freshly made dishes) and weekend biker hangout, where we'll have Friday's lunch pre-Start.

(e) From Boccali's, turning left on Reeves Rd, travel about another mile, and turn left (at this rock) onto McAndrew Rd, and follow it to the top of the hill, where the marked road turns left, and straight ahead is the entrance to Thacher School. Drive up and to the right, and staying to the right, use any of the parking spaces (either paved or dirt). Do NOT park in spaces that abut Thacher buildings, nor drive anywhere leftward from that 1/8 mile of parking/road.

(f) Towards the top of the road, you'll see a sign for Gymkhana, that dirt road leading toward the right, thru a (what shows here as a puddle but by then hopefully just) a small streambed and thru a small avocado orchard, at the end of which you'll find the Horn Canyon Trailhead to the left, and down to the right, the field hockey field that serves as the Two Moon Start/Finish.

Lodging

These are the motels with which we have group rate rooms. Of course, there are many more, so shop around if you wish. For these, let whomever you're talking with know you're booking against the Coyote Two Moon or C2M reservation. Pre-Event: Best Western Oxnard Inn, 1156 S. Oxnard Blvd 93030, 805-483-9581. (This is the one we've used for several years - closest to La Jolla, a couple doors down from Sal's Mexican.) $75/night for nights of 3/10 thru 3/12. One King or Two Queens. All rooms non-smoking. 20 rooms held, tho if we need more, they'll book 'em. Rate is solid until end of February, after which, you may be treated as just any other shmoe looking for a place to plop your head at night.

Event-Specific: (1) Best Western Casa Ojai, 1302 E. Ojai Ave, Ojai 93023, 805-646-8175. (This motel is within spitting distance of Gridley Road junction.) $89/night for any of the nights Wednesday thru Saturday. Either one or two Queen beds. Also, pet friendly, but it'll cost you $25/pet/night. Rates/rooms held until 30 days from event, after which, same line as above... (2) Ojai Rancho Inn, 615 W. Ojai Ave, 93023, 805-646-1434. (Other end of town closer to 33/150 junction. A bit more "quaint/rustic" and more fitting of "attitude" of Ojai, for those who want the total "feel" of the place.) $99/night for Thur or Sunday night, $129 for Friday night, $139 for Saturday night. A few two Queen bed rooms, a couple one King bed rooms (even a kitchen in one!!). Again, rooms/rates held until 30 days out from the event.

Camping

We have La Jolla Group Campground (in Pt Mugu State Park) reserved for Tues/Wed of that week. Cost to you is zilch - well, OK, it's built into the cost of entry, but since we're using the space for more than just camping, then its cost gets distributed to all participants. In Ojai, there are two obvious campgrounds - Camp Comfort and Dennison Campground. Out Rte 33, in the Driving Directions section, are a couple more 'grounds, but they're farther away from Ojai and the Start/Finish.

Camp Comfort, with sites for RV's (but no noticeable spots just for tents). From the junction of 33 & 150, head away (south) from Ojai on 33, for a half mile, turning left onto Hermosa Road. Follow Hermosa for about 0.6 miles, turning right at the stop sign, after which you'll immediately see the campground. Drive another 1/10 mile to the entrance. Fees (as of this writing) are $40/night, with shower available.

Dennison Campground is about 1.5 miles, on the righthand side, beyond Boccali's on Hwy 150. Somewhere over 20 drive-in tent sites (w/ fire ring), the ones higher on the hill affording some pretty spiffy views of the Ojai Valley. $20/night. No shower, but a couple bathrooms situated here 'n there.

Tom Harrison Maps

We now have Tom Harrison maps available for purchase.

For Coyote Two Moon runners, the Sespe Wilderness map should be of particular interest. It's the map that covers the Two Moons course. Study it well grasshopper.

And for volunteers who plan to do any before race running (and runners who don't know how to taper), there's the Pt Mugu State Park map. This is where the pre-race runs will be held.

Chris Scott, Chief Idiot

Questions? Contact the race director.

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