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MVBC Loop Tour History

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INTRODUCTION

The Mid-Valley Bicycle Club Loop Tour (www.looptour.org) is an annual 9-day cycling & camping tour sponsored by the Mid-Valley Bicycle Club (www.mvbc.com) somewhere in Oregon or the Pacific Northwest. The first Loop Tour was held in 1976 and it has been held nearly every year since.  This document (history.looptour.org) lists the Loop Tour events that have taken place since then, along with corresponding references into our Loop Tour archive.

This document was originally created and maintained by Nancy Meitle (see people.mvbc.com).  Early records are courtesy of Janet Throop, Nancy Meitle, Richard & Lindy Burgess, and others.  Many thanks to all these people for keeping track of the evidence of these marvelous events.

Record of Loop Tours

The table that follows provides a reasonably complete accounting of Loop Tour history.  Other records exist, mostly planning documents, but are not referenced here.  If you cannot find what you are looking for here, please send email to sysadmin@mvbc.com and explain what you’re interested in and why.

It’s often possible to learn more about a specific loop tour by searching for articles or references in the online newsletter (issues back to 2012) or the print archive (issues back to 1977).  A good place to get started is in the “From the Archives” section of the June 2013 Newsletter.  You’ll find information there on the 1978 Tour to the North Oregon Coast (a.k.a. Loop II, the very first organized Loop Tour), and the 1991 Tour in the Wallowas (Loop XV), a favorite Loop Tour route area.

We are in the process of digitizing past Loop Tour route data and hope eventually to upgrade this to a full collection of location tagged route & elevation maps (see our routes page).  Individual Loop Tour route files are referenced below.  For bulk access to the current collection, see the Loop Tour Routes Folder.

Editor's Note: There has been some historical inconsistency in assigning sequence numbers to MVBC Loop Tours.  Most of this derives from the question of whether to consider the 1978 Loop Tour as the first ("I") or the second ("II") event.  There was a limited participation "Founders Tour" in 1976.  The convention we adopt here is to start counting with the Founders Tour as Loop I.

Loop Tour Photos

We are fortunate to have photographs from many Loop Tours.  References included below are to archive folder areas, which support simple viewing, but are more useful for bulk file actions like selection and download.  A subset of our Loop Tour photo archives have been posted as photo albums.  These provide more viewing conveniences, and may be found at gallery.mvbc.com.

Camp is thataway

Year

No

Descriptor

References

Other Info

1976

I

Founders Tour

macmaniman.mvbc.com

Dave & Charlene MacManiman and Bob & Marjorie Fry

1977

N/A

No Loop Tour

1978

II

Astoria

Photos, Docs, Route

July & August 1978 Newsletter

1979

III

Sisters

Docs, Route

Sisters Start, See Judy Krueger

1980

IV

No Records

1981

V

Lake Billy Chinook

Photos, Docs

July 1981 Newsletter

1982

VI

Astoria

Docs, Route

Loop II Reprise

1983

VII

Wallowas

Docs, Route

John Day Start

1984

VIII

South Coast

Docs, Route

Winston Start

1985

IX

Mt. Hood

Photos, Docs, Route

Corvallis Start

1986

X

North Coast

Docs, Route

Corvallis Start

1987

XI

Wallowas

Photos, Album, Docs, Route

Mt. Vernon Start

1988

XII

South Coast

Photos, Docs, Route

Winston Start

1989

XIII

Lakeview

Docs, Route

Sunriver Start

1990

XIV

Mt. Hood

Docs, Route

Corvallis Start

1991

XV

Wallowas

Photos, Album, Docs, Route

Pendleton Start

1992

XVI

Coast/Cascades

Photos, Docs, Route

Corvallis Start

1993

XVII

North Coast

Docs, Route

Corvallis Start, Wet’n’Wild

1994

XVIII

South Coast

Docs, Route

Winston Start

1995

XIX

Lakeview

Docs, Route

Sunriver Start

1996

XX

Mt. Hood

No Records

Corvallis Start

1997

XXI

Wallowas

Photos, Docs, Route

Pendleton Start

1998

XXII

Coast/Cascades

Photos, Docs, Route

Corvallis Start

1999

XXIII

Prineville

Docs, Route

Prineville Start

2000

XXIV

South Coast

Photos, Docs, Route

Winston Start

2001

XXV

Central Cascades

Photos, Docs, Route

Corvallis Start

2002

XXVI

Wallowas

Photos, Album

Pendleton Start

2003

XXVII

View of the Lakes

Photos

Lapine Start

2004

XXVIII

Northern Idaho

Photos

2005

XXIX

South Coast

Photos

2006

XXX

Prineville

2007

XXXI

North Coast

Photos, Docs, Route

Corvallis Start

2008

XXXII

Wallowas

Photos, Album

2009

XXXIII

Coast/Cascades

Photos

Corvallis Start

2010

XXXIV

Northern Idaho

Photos

2011

XXXV

Klamath Basin

Photos, Album, Docs

Klamath Falls Start

2012

XXXVI

Columbia Gorge

Docs

Corvallis Start

2013

XXXVII

South Coast

Photos, Docs

2014

XXXVIII

Bend

Docs

Bend with a Twist

2015

XXXIX

Olympic Peninsula

Photos, Docs

2016

XL

Wallowas

Docs

See burgess.mvbc.com

2017

XLI

KFC StripTrip

Photos, Album, Docs

Klamath Falls Start

2018

XLII

John Day

Docs, Photos

John Day Start

2019

XLIII

North Coast, San Juans

Corvallis Start

2020

No Loop Tour

Pandemic

2021

44

Idaho

Photos

Spokane Falls

2022

45

Bend

Photos

Bend

2023

46

Olympic Peninsula

Photos Loop 1, Photos Loop2

Montesano

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