The Basically Boring Bike Blog returns, at least for a couple of weeks as Brenda and I participate in a Bicycle Adventure Club tour from Lake Tahoe to Yosemite.
This will be a shock to our system, going from the hot (100 degrees) and humid North Texas flat (500 feet) plains to the cold (35 degrees) North California Sierra mountains (12,000+ feet). With no time to acclimate, this might be a difficult tour. Oh well, you usually remember the difficult ones the best.
This is basically a North to South ride through the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
The Sierra Nevada (Spanish: [ˈsjera neˈβaða], snowy mountain range) is a mountain range in the U.S. states of California and Nevada, between the California Central Valley and the Basin and Range Province. The Sierra run 400 miles (640 km) north-to-south, and are approximately 70 miles (110 km) across east-to-west. Notable Sierra features include Lake Tahoe, the largestalpine lake in North America; Mount Whitney at 14,505 feet (4,421 m), the highest point in the contiguous United States; and Yosemite Valley sculpted by glaciers out of 100-million-year-old granite. The Sierra is home to three parks, 20 wilderness areas, and a national monument. These areas include Yosemite and Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Parks.
At 7:00 am this morning I realize our e-ticket lists an earlier flight time than the itinerary I printed some months ago. I frantically call my daughter, Pamela, waking her up. But she pulls into our drive 5 minutes later and we make it to the airport in plenty of time. Good luck continues as we get upgraded to first class. In Reno our luggage arrives quickly; a call to the Best Western and a shuttle shows up, also 5 minutes later. So far so good. As I write this, noon Pacific time,Brenda is reading. We’re killing time, waiting for the tour leader to arrive and tell us whether we should assemble the bikes here is Reno or tomorrow in Tahoe City. We decide to take a walk and end up walking over 5 miles on the Truckee River – see photo of Brenda.
We’re here a day early; we always arrive a day early after our experience in 2000. In that year we flew to Florence with 4 cases, 2 suitcases of clothes and 2 cases each containing 1/2 of a tandem bicycle. Only one case – half a tandem – arrived. The other cases took 3 days.
4 comments:
Excellent .... look forward to the adventure :-) Kim
Awesome, I hope this trip goes as well as the cross country trip.
This will be a good tour. Say hi to Allison from me. Bob
The humidity was down to 19% today, only marginally better as the temps reached 100
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