A Year In Mill Valley

We started this trip at the house of a friend of Chris’ near Douglas City. It’s on a road called Top O’ The Grade. I don’t know what we were thinking leaving the car there. But it wasn’t so bad…all downhill from Weaverville to Douglas City and only two and a half miles of the final uphill. Took a quick shower, hopped in the van, and now we’re just about home. Using google maps we can see that there is traffic on 37 so we’re taking 80 through Richmond then across the Richmond San Rafael bridge to Mill Valley.

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More Bigfoot! Better than your average carvings.

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Whoa. Turn the corner and here we are back in civilization. We’ve been on roads the last three days where we could often ride down the middle of the road for 20-30 minutes without seeing a car and now we’re back in the big city. Or so it seems. We haven’t had anything one would call cuisine, or even seen many vegetables the last six days, so stopping at the Garden Cafe in Weavervill was a real treat. Superb toasted veggie sandwich with a fantastic red pepper soup. Well worth a visit if you’re going through Weaverville.

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Nowhere near as many hills as yesterday, but plenty nonetheless. Felt as though I hit a tipping point yesterday. Slept well last night (as opposed to the night before when I got no more than 3 hours of sleep at the Hummingbird B&B) and woke feeling strong and rested. It’s too bad we’re not going for another week to 10 days because that’s where the weight loss has happened for me in the past. Maybe next time…

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Left the KOA campground at Trinity Center at 9:15 and spent an hour alongside Trinity Lake. At one point we crossed an arm of the lake with a boat ramp that was at least a mile from the water. Looked as though the lake is between 50 and 100 feet below where it should be.

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Seven miles uphill, five miles downhill. Hit 44 mph and averaged almost 40 mph down this hill. Wheeeeee!

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Made it. And I’ve got to stop wearing that jersey. Or lose some weight :-)

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Nathaniel, can you read this?

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Seven mile climb with 2700 elevation gain. Long slow slog.

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Scenery changed today. Drier more open.

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