All are welcome. My last pre-Iowa ride. edit: Route summary and a few other notes about the butterlap: http://www.sf2g.com/butterlap.html (edit #2 10+ years later: updated site at https://butterlap.bike/)
Riding through the redwoods (there’s a school ahead??)
Reservoir, seen from the second bear.
The morning fog in Tilden that burned off.
I didn’t organize a ride this week, but went with Adam & Becca on a roughly 50-mile ride combining Berkeley->Orinda (via Tilden Park / Inspiration Point / Wildcat), the “Three Bears” loop (a.k.a. San Pablo Dam loop, but nicknamed after the three moderate hills in a row), a ride through Moraga (less scenic), and then a switchback-filled climb among redwoods and fast descent on Pinehurst. GPS map of the route. It was a good day, at a modest pace (5+ hours, 4 hours actually in motion). Fauna sightings included wild turkeys (including a fluffy little baby turkey), sheep, deer, many trailers of horses, and roadkill.
This map is nothing special: I just took out the GPS (running in a higher-resolution mode than the previous maps) on a quick crosstown break for coffee and exercise, to record “the wiggle” and one way of getting from the Mission to the beach and back.
Rode Alpine Dam again today on the new bike, leaving the house at 6:40AM (ouch…). Here’s a quick overview image of the route (you can also check out the GPS track I recorded, though it’s approximate). The ride was about 70 miles and 4500’ elevation gain, and I wrapped it up with a visit to La Taqueria (3 tacos con aguacate) and Humphry Slocombe (peanut butter curry ice cream).
I rode Butter Lap on Wednesday w/ Margo (most of the way)– it was fun. There were probably 20-30 people on the ride, almost all strangers. People meet at 7pm at the Ferry Building every Wednesday and ride a set route, ending in the Mission for a beer (usually at Bender’s). This has been going on every week for many years– I’m not sure if there’s even an organizer/owner any more. ...
My new bike, plus accessories.
This is a nice evening ride/workout: we left Sports Basement around 5:20, and probably got back to it around 8(?), while it was still light out. And the climb and descent on Camino Alto were good. Here’s the rough map (38 miles RT from Potrero, or about 25 RT from Sports Basement). It was ridiculously windy, though– side-gusts nearly skidding my bike on the bridge and a painful headwind while coming back up the post-Sausalito hill (*shakes fist at sky*). ...