We had been scheduled to go to Camp Tamarancho, but the trails there close in the wet. So on a wet day in Oakland we headed over to Dimond and Joaquin Miller. This ride always sounds a lot easier than it winds up being. 17km and 380m of altitude delta; that’s not that much, right? […]
We were scheduled to go down to Soquel Demo, but there are no roads left in Santa Cruz, so we headed out to Pacifica instead. There are also a couple of slides on the Planet of the Apes road, but the main trails were accessible. But man, those things are badly built. In some places water
The California snowpack is at a 22-year high, the reservoirs are full, and we got to celebrate with a beautifully wet and muddy MUni ride. Newcomer Campbell got his first taste of redwood MUni; much different than the trails in Georgia. Ray also got a taste of MUni when he won Best Biff with a
I hadn’t planned it this way, but we were scheduled to ride in China Camp on the day of the Lunar New Year. It provided a good reminder that China Camp isn’t just a name; the place itself is one result of America’s long history of racial segregation and exclusion. We should not forget. We had
