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Santa Cruz Mountain Archery

By Mark Vaughan · September 2025 · Volume MMXXV, Number 9 · Page 10 · 2 min read

Santa Cruz Mountain Archery

Santa Cruz Mountain Archery has opened a new range at the beautiful Nestldown Therapeutic Riding Center, off Old Santa Cruz Highway near Summit Road. Range master Cris Vaughan has been a USA Archery-certified instructor since 2017. She has taught hundreds of people the fundamentals of this very accessible sport. As an approved vendor with Girl Scouts of Northern California, she makes safety her top priority, while keeping things fun. Many of her students return to hone their skills.

Cris provides the equipment required, including right- and left-handed compound bows, for archers ages 10 and up to safely learn and participate in the sport. Visit www.scmarchery.com for more information, to sign up for lessons or open- shoot times, or with any questions.

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Gone are the days of hastily slapping down my own video to save a Zoom meeting from an “unstable internet connection” warning. Surfnet came out to survey our property for the connection on a Friday, and by early the next week, Lawrence and Kenneth were onsite to get us up and running.

Ours was not an easy job, and we did have several hiccups. Lawrence, however, worked patiently and creatively to problem solve and ensure that our new connection delivered maximum speed for our business needs. They pulled new and improved cables through our existing conduits through the woods, guided and helped us update our router, and they got new wifi mesh receivers working at key points about our property.

My favorite moment was when I was registering a solid 100 megabits-per-second in my office. I was satisfied. Cool. Lawrence and Kenneth looked at each other and shook their heads. “No, we can do way better.” They then proceeded to spend the next several hours pulling a fresh wire to the office resulting in a 5X speed improvement.

Dependability was our main objective in switching from Comcast to Surfnet, but our speeds have changed from 100 mbps to 500 mbps (now bi-directional speed!) in our office and from 10mbps to 100 mbps across our entire two-acre property. We signed up for the lowest speed Surfnet offers, that meets our needs for zoom meetings and large CAD file uploads quite well.

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Santa Cruz Mountain Archery