[RBW] Re: Henry Coe Ride Report
I've received feedback that the photos on Flickr came up pretty small. Here's a second go: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39219...@n06/?saved=1 Also, per request, our route in Henry Coe looked something like this: From Hwy 138-- County line fire Road --the peak of Bear Mountain--Poverty Flat--Park Headquarters Just don't mention your route to the ranger :) Glad to spark some excitement. Cheers, Adam On Apr 19, 9:26 pm, Adam oceanm...@gmail.com wrote: Henry Coe Ride Report I logged on a few weeks ago and asked the listserv about experiences of Henry W. Coe Park. Got some great reports that fueled my excitement. It’s the biggest state run park in Northern California, 87,000 acres of open space. Certain parts are closed to cyclists though it is recognized as some of the best mountain biking in the greater bay area. Almost everyone I spoke to warned of the almost vertical climbs and descents. Even riders who I thought were in the same club suggested full suspension. My buddy Todd and I had planned an early morning departure last Monday but delayed until about 6pm to avoid riding in the rain. We departed from Berkeley and arrived in Briones about an hour after dark. We rode a fire road out from the park entrance about a mile and pushed up an extremely steep and muddy hill. This short ascent proved to be one of the most challenging moments of the trip. Todd spent the night a bit cold, and we were both soaked from the tall grasses we’d be tromping through. In the morning we were considering heading back home so he could pick up his thicker sleeping bag when alas I remembered stories of the VBL. Todd and I rode out to Walnut Creek to the headquarters. We both picked up some “Vapor Barrier Liners” and we agreed our dollars could not have been better spent. We went from wearing our down jackets inside our bags and shivering through the night to ditching the jackets and feeling more than cozy. Pretty incredible results for such a packable and inexpensive item. Grant and Mark gave us directions from Walnut Creek out to Livermore where Todd grew up. They seemed a bit doubtful about our ambitious journey but gave us some uplifting encouragement. We made it out for sandwiches and tea with Todd’s parents and then a good 10 miles into Mines Rd. before sunset. We found a lovely campsite on an unknowingly generous landowners’ space. It felt incredibly remote for being just 10 miles out of Livermore. The next day we continued along Mines Rd. until a welcomed stop at the Junction Café. It’s located at the junction of Mines Rd. and Hwy 138 and is of a different world. Giant Boar heads over the bar with mangled tusks, not a single guy without a camouflage baseball cap. Wonderful people, we felt warmly welcomed, humored perhaps. Had too much to eat and drink for our adventurous spirits and enjoyed some good games of horseshoe outside the restaurant. We departed from Mines Rd. soon after unto some private land for a mile or so and then into the beauty of Henry Coe. We spent 1 night and 2 full days in the park. Riding and pushing, pushing and riding. I’d say our time was about 50/50 between the 2. We crossed a dozen or so rivers and felt lost in the isolated beauty. From the park we rode down through Gilroy and into Downtown San Jose where we caught bus 181 to Fremont Bart and then homeward bound. It was an incredible 4 days. Refreshed and enlivened, Adam Pictures and some short videos:http://www.flickr.com/photos/39219...@n06/sets/72157623893960464/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
[RBW] Re: Henry Coe Ride Report
Awesome glad you made the trip work for you. looks like you had an adventure! On Apr 19, 9:26 pm, Adam oceanm...@gmail.com wrote: Henry Coe Ride Report I logged on a few weeks ago and asked the listserv about experiences of Henry W. Coe Park. Got some great reports that fueled my excitement. It’s the biggest state run park in Northern California, 87,000 acres of open space. Certain parts are closed to cyclists though it is recognized as some of the best mountain biking in the greater bay area. Almost everyone I spoke to warned of the almost vertical climbs and descents. Even riders who I thought were in the same club suggested full suspension. My buddy Todd and I had planned an early morning departure last Monday but delayed until about 6pm to avoid riding in the rain. We departed from Berkeley and arrived in Briones about an hour after dark. We rode a fire road out from the park entrance about a mile and pushed up an extremely steep and muddy hill. This short ascent proved to be one of the most challenging moments of the trip. Todd spent the night a bit cold, and we were both soaked from the tall grasses we’d be tromping through. In the morning we were considering heading back home so he could pick up his thicker sleeping bag when alas I remembered stories of the VBL. Todd and I rode out to Walnut Creek to the headquarters. We both picked up some “Vapor Barrier Liners” and we agreed our dollars could not have been better spent. We went from wearing our down jackets inside our bags and shivering through the night to ditching the jackets and feeling more than cozy. Pretty incredible results for such a packable and inexpensive item. Grant and Mark gave us directions from Walnut Creek out to Livermore where Todd grew up. They seemed a bit doubtful about our ambitious journey but gave us some uplifting encouragement. We made it out for sandwiches and tea with Todd’s parents and then a good 10 miles into Mines Rd. before sunset. We found a lovely campsite on an unknowingly generous landowners’ space. It felt incredibly remote for being just 10 miles out of Livermore. The next day we continued along Mines Rd. until a welcomed stop at the Junction Café. It’s located at the junction of Mines Rd. and Hwy 138 and is of a different world. Giant Boar heads over the bar with mangled tusks, not a single guy without a camouflage baseball cap. Wonderful people, we felt warmly welcomed, humored perhaps. Had too much to eat and drink for our adventurous spirits and enjoyed some good games of horseshoe outside the restaurant. We departed from Mines Rd. soon after unto some private land for a mile or so and then into the beauty of Henry Coe. We spent 1 night and 2 full days in the park. Riding and pushing, pushing and riding. I’d say our time was about 50/50 between the 2. We crossed a dozen or so rivers and felt lost in the isolated beauty. From the park we rode down through Gilroy and into Downtown San Jose where we caught bus 181 to Fremont Bart and then homeward bound. It was an incredible 4 days. Refreshed and enlivened, Adam Pictures and some short videos:http://www.flickr.com/photos/39219...@n06/sets/72157623893960464/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
[RBW] Re: Henry Coe
Here would be the access from Pleasanton Bart: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=dsource=s_dsaddr=Pleasanton+BART+Stationdaddr=37.348326,-121.464844+to:9000+East+Dunne+Avenue,+Morgan+Hill,+CA+95037-6549+(Henry+W+Coe+State+Park)hl=engeocode=FSpIPwIdv_K7-CmlXVnHqu6PgDFpnA09i1YxGQ%3B%3BFW_nNgIdLMDA-CG6SFM64vjSRin3LDm2BN-RgDEX1SLU4Zjkagmra=dpemrcr=0mrsp=1sz=9via=1sll=37.17126,-121.560974sspn=1.20808,2.455444ie=UTF8t=hz=9 Though now I am second guessing our choice of adventure as neither of us ride knobbies. Wondering if a fully loaded hillborne with 40's is up to the task? Are there fire roads that run through and are less extreme? Cheers, Adam On Apr 3, 2:54 pm, Anne Paulson anne.paul...@gmail.com wrote: Thinking about accessing it from either San Jose amtrak or more excitingly from Pleasanton Bart on 88 miles of country rode including 30 on fire road. San Jose Amtrak to Henry Coe is straightforward. How were you thinking about riding from Pleasanton, if you did it that way? Expect the riding in Henry Coe to be beautiful and difficult. I recommend knobbies and good brakes. While I like riding my Atlantis off-road on smooth tires, Henry Coe is the kind of place where I'd want knobbies (and a suspension, if I had a suspension bike). -- -- 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 rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Henry Coe
I'd love to get a report on that thirty miles of Mule Trail fire road. It looks challenging. Am I reading the map correctly that you head out from Livermore on Mines Road to San Antonio Road, just as if you were heading for the back side of Mount Hamilton, then turn left at the Junction? That far is standard. Then it looks like you climb over a steep ridge with false summits, then down into a very empty valley (flowers would be absolutely spectacular this year), then climb again very steeply to a ridge on the edge of a steep canyon and follow that canyon around to San Felipe Road. If anyone does that route or has done it, please post pictures and description. It looks like an adventure. On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Adam oceanm...@gmail.com wrote: Here would be the access from Pleasanton Bart: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=dsource=s_dsaddr=Pleasanton+BART+Stationdaddr=37.348326,-121.464844+to:9000+East+Dunne+Avenue,+Morgan+Hill,+CA+95037-6549+(Henry+W+Coe+State+Park)hl=engeocode=FSpIPwIdv_K7-CmlXVnHqu6PgDFpnA09i1YxGQ%3B%3BFW_nNgIdLMDA-CG6SFM64vjSRin3LDm2BN-RgDEX1SLU4Zjkagmra=dpemrcr=0mrsp=1sz=9via=1sll=37.17126,-121.560974sspn=1.20808,2.455444ie=UTF8t=hz=9 Though now I am second guessing our choice of adventure as neither of us ride knobbies. Wondering if a fully loaded hillborne with 40's is up to the task? Are there fire roads that run through and are less extreme? Cheers, Adam On Apr 3, 2:54 pm, Anne Paulson anne.paul...@gmail.com wrote: Thinking about accessing it from either San Jose amtrak or more excitingly from Pleasanton Bart on 88 miles of country rode including 30 on fire road. San Jose Amtrak to Henry Coe is straightforward. How were you thinking about riding from Pleasanton, if you did it that way? Expect the riding in Henry Coe to be beautiful and difficult. I recommend knobbies and good brakes. While I like riding my Atlantis off-road on smooth tires, Henry Coe is the kind of place where I'd want knobbies (and a suspension, if I had a suspension bike). -- -- 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 rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- -- 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 rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
[RBW] Re: Henry Coe
The only other thought is that we may be able to access Henry Coe from the North side rather than circling around to the Western main entrance. A trail map is in the mail and should be helpful! On Apr 4, 9:33 am, Anne Paulson anne.paul...@gmail.com wrote: I'd love to get a report on that thirty miles of Mule Trail fire road. It looks challenging. Am I reading the map correctly that you head out from Livermore on Mines Road to San Antonio Road, just as if you were heading for the back side of Mount Hamilton, then turn left at the Junction? That far is standard. Then it looks like you climb over a steep ridge with false summits, then down into a very empty valley (flowers would be absolutely spectacular this year), then climb again very steeply to a ridge on the edge of a steep canyon and follow that canyon around to San Felipe Road. If anyone does that route or has done it, please post pictures and description. It looks like an adventure. On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Adam oceanm...@gmail.com wrote: Here would be the access from Pleasanton Bart: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=dsource=s_dsaddr=Pleasanton+BART+Stat... Though now I am second guessing our choice of adventure as neither of us ride knobbies. Wondering if a fully loaded hillborne with 40's is up to the task? Are there fire roads that run through and are less extreme? Cheers, Adam On Apr 3, 2:54 pm, Anne Paulson anne.paul...@gmail.com wrote: Thinking about accessing it from either San Jose amtrak or more excitingly from Pleasanton Bart on 88 miles of country rode including 30 on fire road. San Jose Amtrak to Henry Coe is straightforward. How were you thinking about riding from Pleasanton, if you did it that way? Expect the riding in Henry Coe to be beautiful and difficult. I recommend knobbies and good brakes. While I like riding my Atlantis off-road on smooth tires, Henry Coe is the kind of place where I'd want knobbies (and a suspension, if I had a suspension bike). -- -- 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 rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- -- 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 rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Henry Coe
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Adam oceanm...@gmail.com wrote: That's the plan for now. We'll be taking off next week and I'll post pictures for sure. Here's another thought: we're about to have a big storm. If there haven't been four or so dry days before you start, I suggest taking the easy route over the ridge, the back side of Mount Hamilton. Sticky mud jamming your brakes and covering all parts of you and your bike = not fun. -- -- 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 rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
[RBW] Re: Henry Coe
I rode a 20 mile loop in Henry Coe a number of years ago. It's not down the side of a ski slope technical, but it will test your reflexes as well as your lungs. Knobbies are a must, IMHO. Beatiful park, too. They had a fire a couple of years ago, but I suspect that the park is healing nicely by now. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
[RBW] Re: Henry Coe
Funny that you were thinking about doing a mini tour through Henry Coe. I just recently got back from a overnight trip there, I agree with Anne it's good place to have knobbies, there are some hard climbs but the decents are amazing. Bring a water filter as there is no clean water source there. Plenty of streams and rivers. Here's some pictures of what you cam look forward too. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mannyacosta/sets/72157623752985192/ -Manny Hey, I've been there! Acosta On Apr 3, 2:54 pm, Anne Paulson anne.paul...@gmail.com wrote: Thinking about accessing it from either San Jose amtrak or more excitingly from Pleasanton Bart on 88 miles of country rode including 30 on fire road. San Jose Amtrak to Henry Coe is straightforward. How were you thinking about riding from Pleasanton, if you did it that way? Expect the riding in Henry Coe to be beautiful and difficult. I recommend knobbies and good brakes. While I like riding my Atlantis off-road on smooth tires, Henry Coe is the kind of place where I'd want knobbies (and a suspension, if I had a suspension bike). -- -- 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 rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
[RBW] Re: Henry Coe
Thanks for the link. That is rugged and pretty country. On Apr 3, 8:36 pm, manueljohnacosta manueljohnaco...@hotmail.com wrote: Funny that you were thinking about doing a mini tour through Henry Coe. I just recently got back from a overnight trip there, I agree with Anne it's good place to have knobbies, there are some hard climbs but the decents are amazing. Bring a water filter as there is no clean water source there. Plenty of streams and rivers. Here's some pictures of what you cam look forward too. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mannyacosta/sets/72157623752985192/ -Manny Hey, I've been there! Acosta On Apr 3, 2:54 pm, Anne Paulson anne.paul...@gmail.com wrote: Thinking about accessing it from either San Jose amtrak or more excitingly from Pleasanton Bart on 88 miles of country rode including 30 on fire road. San Jose Amtrak to Henry Coe is straightforward. How were you thinking about riding from Pleasanton, if you did it that way? Expect the riding in Henry Coe to be beautiful and difficult. I recommend knobbies and good brakes. While I like riding my Atlantis off-road on smooth tires, Henry Coe is the kind of place where I'd want knobbies (and a suspension, if I had a suspension bike). -- -- 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 rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
