CA 1 > Stinson Beach > west peak mount tamalpias

beautiful winter day. nice and dry with plenty of sun! what better place is there to be but highway one? click for bigger pictures.

that city down there is my home!

in this one you can see highway one on that ridge down there in the foreground and my neighborhood of the city right there in the back ground with the santa cruz mountains rising above

the city and the headlands down there.

no trip is complete without some redwoods!

cow palace/headlands

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Total Distance: 63.56 km (39.5 mi)
Total Time: 2:37:01
Moving Time: 1:30:15
Average Speed: 11.37 km/h (7.1 mi/h)
Average Moving Speed: 19.77 km/h (12.3 mi/h)
Max Speed: 60.30 km/h (37.5 mi/h)
Min Elevation: -18 m (-58 ft)
Max Elevation: 250 m (820 ft)
Elevation Gain: 895 m (2938 ft)
Max Grade: 30 %
Min Grade: -21 %
Recorded: Sat Nov 21 15:25:28 PDT 2009

i went to the bike expo down at cow palace on the border of daly city and sf.. i usually don't put city (tank) rides on here, but i thought the expo was pretty cool, so what the hell eh? rode down to the palace and while looking for the entrance somehow i accidentally snuck in. first i ended up "backstage" where all the bmx'ers were "taking off" so i had a nice vantage point for some videos like this:

these guys were AWESOME!
   then i tried to get inside, accidentally placing me on the starting line of the cyclo-cross race..  i followed the riders and veered off into the building.. never found the front entrance, but suddenly i was inside.. cool!

then after a quick trip through the super-ghetto i ran inside (my house), swapped bikes, met up with pat in at the flatlands (ggp @ 6th and fulton) and we rode headlands during the sunset.

mount tamalpais west/east peak, alpine dam loop, phoenix lake

sweet ride.. this was our first time doing tam at all, much less the amazing alpine dam loop. since it was our first time on tam of course we had to knock out both the west and east peak.. then we went on to bolinas ridge (the most unrealistic place there is) and the never ending forest bail-down to alpine dam. then on the way back we stopped at Phoenix lake near the town of ross.