Thanks for those photos! The dirt section through the oaks is AMAZINGLY beautiful!
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:56 AM, manueljohnacosta < manueljohnaco...@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=. > > > -- Cheers, David Redlands, CA "Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There is something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym." ~Bill Nye, scientist guy -- 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=.
