I'm very sorry I couldn't come to this ride... I got back from my business trip and got sick.
Is there any chance this ride can be repeated sometime soon? The pictures look amazing! René On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:55 AM, cyclotourist <cyclotour...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=. > -- 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=.
