Beautiful description Anne! Very well said. Here are pictures from said ride. Mist conditions to say the least but I believe it added to the ride.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41060...@n07/sets/72157622859619794/ On Nov 22, 8:06 pm, Anne Paulson <anne.paul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Four of us ended up making the ride up Mount Hamilton: Manny, on a > beautiful Bleriot equipped with a medium-sized Carradice bag; Todd, on > a blue A Homer Hilsen with a front basket, Benz, on a Della Santa > sporting a handsome Nigel Smythe saddlebag; and me on my scrappy > Atlantis, with a Carradice bag stuffed with warm clothes and food. > Everyone had fenders, which came in handy on the wet roads. I had > invited a few carbon-fiber weight weenie friends, but none of them > showed up. Just as well, because those delicate flowers would have > been afraid to ride on the dirt. > > We headed up Mt. Hamilton Road to Grant Ranch, then turned off at > Grant Lake to go up Halls Valley Trail and Canada de Pala, returning > to Mt. Hamilton Road at Twin Gates. That dirt section is my favorite > way to go up Mt. Hamilton, quiet, and beautiful at all times of the > year. > > Normally, on the section after the second retrograde Lick Observatory > taunts the unwary cyclist. "Almost there," it will whisper as you look > up at it, seemingly just around the corner when actually it's seven > miles away. Or six miles, or four miles... the Observatory always > looks like it's just above you. But today it was fogged in. I couldn't > even get a glimpse of it until just before we turned off Mt. Hamilton > Road onto the Observatory driveway. > > I've been up on top of Mt. Hamilton when it was colder than today, but > the fog and wind drove us indoors to eat our lunches on the > comfortable benches. Then we bundled up, to head down and finish a > delightful ride. Thanks, guys. > > -- > -- Anne Paulson > > He who wills the ends wills the means -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=.
