Greg,

There is nothing worth encrypting on the site. The only personal information required on the site is your email address. You don't even have to provide your real name. There is no financial information, no birthdate, no phone number, no credit card, no social security number, no home address. You can find much more personal information on the Internet doing a Google Search on your name. You don't have a clue on what SSL (encryption) is used for on the Internet. Running SSL would cost about $300 a year for the site.

Be specific. What security risk is it that you're worried about that implementing SSL will address? The "warning" just indicates the site isn't  using SSL and doesn't have an SSL certificate. There are millions of sites on the Internet which run without SSL, because they contain no significant user data and do no transactions which are necessary to protect with SSL.

Using this site is less of a security risk than driving your car down a public road. Using your license plate anyone can find out where the registered owner lives. It is public information. Using your email address from this site no one can figure out where you live unless you posted your email address and home address publicly somewhere or you posted it privately and someone you shared it with privately, shares it publicly or the place you posted both pieces of information is breached. As your home address is not required to do anything on this site, if you share it on the site and someone you don't want to get it, gets it, that's your fault, not the site's fault. Given how easy it is to get an account on the site and how little personal information is on the site, how much sense does it make to worry about the site being hacked? Unlike your car where you have to give your personal information to register, you don't have to do this on this site. You're worried about risk on this site? Cover the license plate on your vehicles first. It will do much more to protect your personal information than SSL will do on this site.

Welcome to the forum. Looking forward to meeting you in La Crosse.

Just got a call from Don Christenson. Unfortunately his brother Steve hit a deer while riding his bike this morning . He is stable at Gunderson Hospital in La Crosse with a number of broken bones. He will need surgery to address some of his injuries but they are letting things settle out a bit before they take action. Please keep him in your thoughts at this difficult time.

Incredible deal. Must resist. I'd venture it is worth $2K more than the ask. So tempting.... GLWTS.

Welcome to the forum. Looking forward to meeting you on a ride or at a kickstand event.

Can never have too many friends to ride with. I post rides and events on the forum and FB. They're just communications mediums....

Given your schedule, I'm not sure it is a good idea to attempt this. The Rockies represent a high desert range which can receive large amounts of snow in very short periods of time up through Memorial Day. When I lived in Boulder I had to cancel a Memorial Day ride because we got hit with 18" of snow in Boulder. In April you need to think about getting as far south as possible to reduce the risk of getting stuck by weather.

I'd suggest looking for a route to Denver with an option of going across 50 to SLC  if the weather is good. A  back up route would be coming across the south of Colorado on 160 and out of the southwest corner of the state (Cortez) which sets you up to use 12 across the southern Utah.