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2007 VanIsle Eau de Hell Week Brevet Series
- 400 km -
April 10, 7 a.m.

Ride Organizer:
Ken Bonner

Start/Finish: Dancing Bean Café
9752 Willow Street, Chemainus

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START - Chemainus
Dancing Bean Café - 9752 Willow
 
0.0 L Mill St. 0.1
0.1 R Chemainus Rd. 9.6
9.7 R Hwy #1 2.9
12.6 R First Ave (at lights) 0.1
12.7 L Rocky Creek Rd (at T) 2.0
14.7 L Access to Hwy #1 (after stop) 0.0
14.7 R Merge onto Hwy #1 2.4
17.1 R Brenton-Page Rd 1.2
18.3 L Code Rd 1.7
20.0 R Cedar Rd 7.5
27.5 SO Stay on Cedar Rd 1.2
28.7 R

Control #1 - Wheatsheaf Pub
Answer question on control card
0.0
28.7 R Cedar Rd (out of control) 1.9
30.6 L Cedar Rd (across bridge at T) 3.0
33.6 R Route 1 (TC Hwy) ==>Nanaimo 4.4
38.0 SO Route 1 (TC Hwy) becomes Terminal Ave 1.4
39.4 L Hwy 19A (North to Port Hardy) 1.4
40.8 R Princess Royal Ave (at lights) 0.2
41.0 L Estevan Rd. 1.2
42.2 R Departure Bay Rd (at stop) 2.0
44.2 R Hammond Bay Rd 8.8
53.0 R Brickyard Rd 0.7
53.7 L Waldbank Rd 1.0
54.7 SO Waldbandk becomes Dover Rd 0.8
55.5 R Dickinson Rd 2.3
57.8 R Lantzville Rd 3.7
61.5 R TC Hwy ==> Parksville 5.9
67.4 R Northwest Bay Rd (Petro-Can) 3.0
70.4 SO Northwest Bay Rd (veer left) 6.6
77.0 L Towards Hwy 19A 0.1
77.1 R Hwy 19A (aka W. Island Hwy) 22.2
99.3 SO Dangerous RR Crossing! 3.5
102.8 SO Dangerous RR Crossing! 3.2
106.0 R

Control #2 - Lighthouse Country Pull-out
Answer question on control card
0.0
106.0 L Hwy 19A (back towards Qualicum) 13.9
119.9 R Memorial Ave (through Qualicum) 3.6
123.5 SO Cross Hwy 19 to Hwy 4W (Port Alberni) 1.2
124.7 R Hilliers Rd 4.7
129.4 L Hwy 4E (==> Coombs) 2.1
131.5 R Hwy 4A (==> Coombs) Alberni Hwy 2.7
134.2 R

Control #3 - Coombs General Store
Answer question on Control Card
6.5
140.7 R Hwy 19 (==> Nanaimo) 5.6
146.3 R Exit 46 to North Parsville 0.4
146.7 L Towards Parksville (at stop) 1.1
147.8 R Franklin's Gull Rd (at lights) 0.1
147.9 R Northwest Bay Rd 8.5
156.4 SO Dangerous RR Crossing! 1.1
157.5 L Island Hwy #19 (at lights) 9.9
167.4 R Exit 29 (==> Hwy 19A) 1.0
168.4 SO Cross Nanaimo Pkwy (at lights) 9.4
177.8 SO Hwy 19A becomes Hwy 1 South 2.1
179.9 SO Hwy 1 becomes Terminal Ave 1.9
181.8 SO Thru traffic lights and up the hill 0.6
182.4 SO Terminal becomes Nicol St 3.3
185.7 R 10th Street 0.0
185.7 R

Control #4 - Tim Horton's
0.1
185.8 L Lawlor St (at stop) 0.1
185.9 L 10th Street 0.2
186.1 R TC Hwy #1 0.8
186.9 SO Dangerous Intersection - crossing two lanes of high-speed traffic from the right (after lights) 28.4
215.3 R Smiley Rd 0.0
215.3 L Immediate left to Smiley Rd 0.9
216.2 L at stop sign (Antique Store opposite) 0.1
216.3 SO Cross TC Hwy (at lights) to Henry Rd 1.4
217.7 R Chemainus Rd (at roundabout) 3.1
220.8 SO Dangerous RR Crossing! 1.2
222.0 SO Gaps between planks on bridge!! 0.3
222.3 SO Stay on Chemainus Rd 1.8
224.1 R Mt. Sicker Rd 0.6
224.7 L TC Hwy (at lights) 6.8
231.5 R Hwy 18 (==> Lake Cowichan) 25.7
257.2 L ==> Lake Cowichan 0.9
258.1 R

Control #5 - Esso Stn.
(24 hours)
0.0
258.1 L out of Esso Stn. 0.2
258.3 R Greendale Rd 1.5
259.8 R Old Lake Cowichan Rd 5.9
265.7 SO Cross Skutz Falls Rd (at stop) 14.9
280.6 R Menzies Rd 1.7
282.3 L Barnjum Rd (at stop) becomes Gibbens Rd 5.0
287.3 R Government St (at stop) 1.4
288.7 R Allenby Rd (at lights) 0.7
289.4 SO Indian Rd. (after bridge; at stop) 3.4
292.8 R

Control #6 (at stop)
Answer question on Control Card
0.0
292.8 L Glenora Rd (at stop) 3.5
296.3 R Miller Rd (at stop) 0.5
296.8 R Koksilah Rd (at stop) 5.9
302.7 SO Koksilah Rd 1.5
304.2 SO Cross TC Hwy (at lights) 2.5
306.7 R Cowichan Bay Rd (at stop) 2.8
309.5 SO Cross TC Hwy (at lights ==>Cobble Hill 2.5
312.0 R Cobble Hill Rd becomes Shawnigan Lake Rd 4.2
316.2 R Renfrew Rd (at stop) 4.6
320.8 L West Shawnigan Lake Rd 1.5
322.3 SO

Control #7
Answer question on control card
(Hint: look left)
7.6
329.9 L Shawnigan Lake Rd 7.7
337.6 SO Shawnigan Lake Rd 0.5
338.1 R Shawnigan Lake Rd (before RR crossing) 4.4
342.5 R Cobble Hill Rd 1.3
343.8 SO

Control #8
Answer question on control card
(Hint: look right)
1.9
345.7 R Cobble Hill Rd 1.1
346.8 R TC Hwy 1.4
348.2 R Deloume Rd (at lights) 0.0
348.2 R Barry Rd 0.1
348.3 L Into McDonald's 0.0
348.3 R

Control #9 - Tim Horton's
0.2
348.5 SO Exit Shopping Plaza 0.0
348.5 L Deloume Rd 0.1
348.6 L TC Hwy (at lights) 44.3
392.9 R Chemainus Rd (at lights - DQ on left) 9.5
402.4 R

FINISH !!
Parking Lot by Railway Station opposite Subway.
Knock on Ken's yellow Vanagon Lic # VDE 185
 
   

CONGRATULATIONS !!
 
Note: This is not the official route sheet. Ride organizers may make last minute changes because of road closures or other problems. The route sheet you receive at the start of the ride is the official one.

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