We had a gorgeous ride in Joaquin Miller, with the sun breaking through the mist right when we got to the top of Big Trees Trail. I won Best Biff for the first time in a while, getting too far to the right at the bottom of Cinderella and falling sideways with momentum. Beautiful day […]
It was another weekend for exploring, this time at Skyline Park in Napa, which turned out to be surprisingly good. It’s way more wooded than you’d expect a park in Napa to be, and while the uphills are no fun, the downhills are great. We did one that had incredibly tight, steep switchbacks requiring enormous
A group of us went to celebrate Independence Day (and a couple of looming birthdays) with a MUni ride in Berkeley. We hit the steam trains first, which was fun; I haven’t been there in years. Great ride; I tried a drop and a chute I’d never worked up the nerve to do before (I
On day 3 we went for the classic Porcupine Rim ride; shuttle up to 7500′, ride 14 or so miles down to the river at 4000′. The remnants of a weather system were still around; when we got out of the vans we had a decent snowstorm going. We split into two groups, one of
