Going to be a hot one.
Weekly Ride Reports 7/1 - 7/7 Enjoy your long weekend
mtbrdan
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So hot out there already. Almost out of water and shortening the suffering, I mean ride. Saw 2 others ride up Mission @ Stanford, and two walked their way up. Close to 70F at summit, where as the base was 62F. For reference during summer mornings I am used to training here in the mid 50s.
Many started early to avoid the east bay heat in a few hours.
Many started early to avoid the east bay heat in a few hours.
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I'd get a SUP. You can sit on a beer cooler to turn it into a kayak. Saw a group using that approach while I was kayaking fishing the Russian River last weekend. They even make inflatable versions that get quite rigid if you need the portability factor. Not sure if they allow SUPs in the local reservoirs which ban bodily contact with the water.
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Blackfin Inflatable X / XL Models are the best SUPs I've ever used and we have 4 boards, 2 fiberglass, and we used to have 2 foam as well. The Blackfins are amazing and you can buy a kayak seat for them as well. Seriously can not recommend them enough.
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Mosquitoes out in force at Bear Mountain this morning. Got back to the car at 9:30 and it was already almost 80°. Only saw 2 other cyclists out there, one mtb, one gravel. Not sure if everyone else saw the forecast and decided to hunker down, or just made poor plans about start times.
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Happy Bday! Guess it’s the day of the builder
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Yes, happy builder day.Happy Bday! Guess it’s the day of the builder
Well, if you ride shirtless, sure…
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Give Oliver at Covewater Paddlesurf in Santa Cruz a call. He is an ex pro downhill racer and all around good guy. He will sort you out on the water! 831.600.8097
Yesterday afternoon I was feeling like a slug sitting in the house trying to keep cool, so once it was down to 92 outside o went out and rode up to the Overlook fire road which is on the shady side of El Sereno (BTW feel free to tell Midpen they should connect it up to Aquinas Trail 😉).
Several months ago I “rescued” a couple of older hikers who were having trouble (one with back spasms) on a hike across Sierra Azul on the Ridge Trail. We’ve become friends and I’ve joined them to shuttle JNT and now Skyline Trail as they work on circumnavigating BART. We hiked Skyline from Sunnyvale Mountain to Saratoga Gap today. I had only been on a bike on the trail so I had never seen the hike-only section of the trail that’s a little north of the Summit Rock loop. It’s an amazing old school trail built on a very steep hillside. There’s a fair amount of PO on a narrow bench and a couple of tricky passages past downed trees, but I loved it.
Snek on Skyline Trail too!
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Several months ago I “rescued” a couple of older hikers who were having trouble (one with back spasms) on a hike across Sierra Azul on the Ridge Trail. We’ve become friends and I’ve joined them to shuttle JNT and now Skyline Trail as they work on circumnavigating BART. We hiked Skyline from Sunnyvale Mountain to Saratoga Gap today. I had only been on a bike on the trail so I had never seen the hike-only section of the trail that’s a little north of the Summit Rock loop. It’s an amazing old school trail built on a very steep hillside. There’s a fair amount of PO on a narrow bench and a couple of tricky passages past downed trees, but I loved it.
Snek on Skyline Trail too!
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