Blue skies! Views! Westport was a cute little place - favourite place to stay so far. The room at Westport Inn, while not looking much from the outside, was nice and comfy. The dinky little general store was just a couple of houses up. They made food, and so we had pizza for dinner, and …
Category: 2017 – Pacific Coast, US
Day 12 – Garberville to Westport
84km and about +1220m climbing Big day in the climbing department with the big hill out of Leggett providing the big challenge to look forward to today. (Or rather to be a bit anxious about). On top of that, I had a Garmin debacle. Somehow when I was unplugging it from the usb charger my …
Day 11 – Fortuna to Garberville (Avenue of Giants)
85k. +655m climbing Left Fortuna in the rain,but the day cleared up to a sunny (bloody hot) 34 degrees. We ended up riding into Garberville fairly late because we took our time through Avenue of Giants- a longish chat over lunch with 3 lovely American women who are cycling border to border, and then we …
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Rest day in Fortuna
So, not the most salubrious of towns, but a nice, normal - in fact rather spacious - hotel room. We have a couple of biggish days coming up, so we decided to give the legs a break. And go walk a loop around town for nearly 7k. What the? It wasn't even a nice walk. …
Day 10 – Trinidad to Fortuna
(76k/+444m) Now in Fortuna, in what feels pretty fancy compared to what we've been staying in. (For not much more, it should be said - so we've decided to have our next rest day tomorrow on the basis of accommodation quality, rather than what the town is like. Have the feeling we're a bit in …
Day 9 – Klamath to Trinidad
... with a spot of single track on an old coast road detour that we heard about through a Pacific Bike route Facebook group. Also Newton B Drury Parkway. …
Day 8 – Brookings to Klamath (80.8km/+907m)
Today we crossed the border into Californ-i-a! Nottoo far after that we detoured off the ACA route and headed to Jedediah Smith Redwoods and Stout Grove. I'd decided we should follow the route taken by a tandem couple from a blog I'd read. It included a bit of pushing the bike through a 'boulder …
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Rainy rest day in Brookings
We were planning on riding today (albeit without a lot of enthusiasm on my part) . When I checked the forecast when we woke up, and it said thunderstorms, I asked him if we really wanted to ride in that. A few checks of different weather sites, and a weather radar, and he decided we …
Day 7 – Gold Beach to Brookings
Another short day, but with a bit of climbing. We're kind of timing our runs between towns. Wouldn't mind a rest day, but these last couple of stops haven't really appealed for hanging around another day and night. (Bandon would have been nice but it felt too early.) Today the smoke haze had gone, …
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