On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Gino Zahnd <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Regarding Anne's advice, the Lost Coast detour is amazingly beautiful, > and it's also some of the hardest/hilliest riding you'll ever do. It > is epic. It adds an entire day to the route; it's that hilly. And with > loaded bikes, it goes by beautifully, painfully, and slowly. It's so worth it, and SO STEEP. When you start the first climb out of Ferndale, you think, wow, this is steep. But then when you reach the top, and look far far down to the base of the second long climb, you can't believe someone put a road there. It looks like it goes straight up. It looks like someone glued asphalt on a cliff. Highway 1 was routed inland in that section for good reason. Then, all too quickly because the descent is scarily steep too, so steep you can't see the road beneath you and it looks like you're about to ride off a cliff into the Pacific 2000 feet below, you reach the base of that climb. You hope your initial impressions were wrong. Oh no. They weren't. The road looks like a cliff because it is a cliff. Take a deep breath. Get in your lowest gear. Wish you had a gear twice as low. Begin climbing. Hope you don't tip over. -- -- Anne Paulson My hovercraft is full of eels -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
