Went on my first brevet of the year with Sigman. A hilly ride on roads that are all familiar to us, which was a nice change. Starting at Fremont BART and ending at the bottom of Tunnel Rd. I knew I'd like this ride and we had a great ride. Sigman called it a "sufferfest" but that's cuz he was on his heavier bike (I was going to take my Kona, but the rear tire blew out 10 min before Sigman picked me up... I took that as a sign) and he hadn't been riding in a while. We also didn't bring lights, so we knew we had to ride fast... which we did. From the Junction we rode with Donini, who was a very strong rider and I found out later that she's an Olympic gold medalist (in fencing). Anyway, we finished the ride with plenty of daylight... and only like 40 min behind Bill (who we lost on our way up Mt. Hamilton).
What's in the pill box?
Struggling up Ham...
The observatory... shhhh... researchers are asleep!
Snow! Kinda...
At the Junction. A tree had fallen on a water line, so they shut down soon afterwards. We got a drink and some chips here.
I rode straight to Farm Burger from the finish, where these munchkins were happily eating while Elena and Kimbo were getting ready to go to Banff Film Fest. I went home, put the kids down, worked on my bikes (fixed about 5 flat tires, lubed up 4 bikes, cleaned up my Ti, and adjusted a few thing)... then crashed.
Went on a semi-mini-dawn patrol with Jack on our last day. We left the house at 6:45 with our skis on our shoulder, walked a block and started skinning. I think if you did this as fast as you can, you'd be at the top from the house in 15 or 20 min. 350 ft vert. Steeper skier's right, doing 2 laps would count as an outing.
Nice picnic table at the top
Trying to convince Jack that BC skiing is the best sport in the world...
Looking down at the groomer making the sledding runs.
Basking in the glow
Looking out towards Castle, Basin, and Andesite (where we dawn patrolled the day before)...
Made it home in time to make breakfast for everyone! With a monkey on his shoulder.
Not a bad looking spread egh?
The kids started watching "Magic School Bus" and soon lost interest in anything else.
Dozier skating back to the car... past the two on ramps... dodging cars and dry patches.
with Miley, Dozier, and Drew. Nick fell off a cornice... it snowed a lot, but it came in pretty pasty and very stable. Saw a snow hare on the way up. The peak is fine, but it's a bit of a slog for 600 ft of vert. I think I'd rather go out to Castle or Basin and just wake up earlier...
There's some snow at the summit...
Love these trees with the snow pasted on...
Provided a nice shelter from the wind too...
Dozier's B-day ski... with a kid expected at any second... probably his last outing for a while...
Drew the machine...
Doz
Miley the goofball...
On the second lap he skinned right up to the edge of this fat cornice which collapsed on him. At the time it was pretty scary... it was quite a break. He deservedly took a nice 10 ft header into (thankfully) soft, buttery snow.
