2020 Pashnit Touring
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Heading back inland on Highway 20 to Willits. Very fast ride back over the range to Willits
Coast Range with coastal fog in the distance over the ocean: All these hills you see here running north-south, the roads all have to go up and over.
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Lots of campers too
Locals
Brand new pavement near the coast - super smooth amazing
Coast Range with coastal fog in the distance over the ocean: All these hills you see here running north-south, the roads all have to go up and over.
Left Right Left
Lots of campers too
Locals
Brand new pavement near the coast - super smooth amazing
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Shelter Cove is 25 miles down a dead end road out on the Lost Coast, one of the most undeveloped remote stretches of coastline in the state. It's the middle of nowhere. And it has the coolest hotel there, Inn of the Lost Coast, overlooking the ocean.
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Up at 5am, on bike by 6am for 11 hour ride across the state. It's 95 in Sacramento, so plan is to stay along the coast as long as possible.
I wanted to swing by a couple places I had written about on articles I'd recently finished.
Swung by Mendocino to check out a historic Joss House, a Chinese temple dating to the 1850s.
The Temple of Kwan Tai is actually a tiny New England style home on a residential street, but the small home dates to estimates of 1852. The building was restored in the late 1990s and rededicated in 2001. The site is recognized as a California Registered Historic Landmark.
I wanted to swing by a couple places I had written about on articles I'd recently finished.
Swung by Mendocino to check out a historic Joss House, a Chinese temple dating to the 1850s.
The Temple of Kwan Tai is actually a tiny New England style home on a residential street, but the small home dates to estimates of 1852. The building was restored in the late 1990s and rededicated in 2001. The site is recognized as a California Registered Historic Landmark.
I wanted to swing by Albion to photograph a wood bridge. I've ridden over it a zillion times.
At Albion, (albion is the ancient name for Britain) you’ll ride over the last wooden trestle bridge still in existence along Hwy 1. The current bridge was built in 1944 during the war years when shortages of steel inspired innovative bridge building techniques. Concrete and even redwood were not readily available. The bridge was constructed with salvaged Douglas fir timbers pressure treated and infused with a copper azole preservative to treat them for the elements and salt air. Concrete, also in short supply, was only used for the base abutments while thirteen vertical towers of Douglas fir were erected. The concrete towers at each side of the river and the footings of the timber towers are reinforced with salvaged railroad rails. A large steel railroad span was salvaged from a bridge in Oregon and reconditioned for use in the center of the bridge over the river.
Cal Trans announced plans in 2009 to replace it as functionally obsolete as they’ve done with numerous other bridges along Highway 1 over the last 20 years. The townspeople naturally pushed back to save their iconic bridge that’s come to define this tiny alcove south of Mendocino. Functionally obsolete describes many bridges along Hwy 1 and across the United States, the Golden Gate Bridge likely is the most recognizable bridge that also has this designation. The Bixby Bridge along the Big Sur section of Highway 1 also has this title. In the 1990s, Caltrans spent $20 million to retrofit the Bixby Bridge but were careful to not alter its iconic look. The Bixby Bridge is said to be one of the most photographed bridges on the West Coast.
During 2016, CalTrans completed a seismic retrofit to enhance the steel portion of the Albion Bridge. The opposition to replacing the bridge succeeded in listing the Albion Bridge on the National Register of Historic Places and in the California Register of Historic Places in July 2017 delaying any construction. Construction is currently scheduled to begin in Spring of 2023 and be completed by 2026.
As you look down from the bridge, there is a campground on a wide flat area along the banks of the Albion River. This flat area was created for the sawmill that once operated where the RVs sit today. The Albion River is one of the few coastal rivers with no major dams or reservoirs. Starting off at an elevation of 1570 feet, the Albion River drains 43 square miles of Coast Range. The saw mill built on the small flat plain at the mouth of the river dates to 1853.
A company town was built to house the workforce and railways were constructed to reach the lumber inland up Railway Gulch and over Keen’s Summit. The rail line reached within a mile of Comptche. Trains brought lumber from the surrounding Coast Range forests to the mouth of the Albion River where it was processed and the loaded onto ships and used to build San Francisco. Demand for coast redwood exploded after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake set off a building boom to rebuild San Francisco.
Logging lasted at the Albion Sawmill until 1928 and the railway was dismantled in 1937. Much of the watershed is still owned by logging companies and large tracts of forest are now 3rd and 4th growth forest with over half of the watershed still owned by the Mendocino Redwood Company. The Albion River Campground now sits over the top of the former sawmill site and is open to the public.
At Albion, (albion is the ancient name for Britain) you’ll ride over the last wooden trestle bridge still in existence along Hwy 1. The current bridge was built in 1944 during the war years when shortages of steel inspired innovative bridge building techniques. Concrete and even redwood were not readily available. The bridge was constructed with salvaged Douglas fir timbers pressure treated and infused with a copper azole preservative to treat them for the elements and salt air. Concrete, also in short supply, was only used for the base abutments while thirteen vertical towers of Douglas fir were erected. The concrete towers at each side of the river and the footings of the timber towers are reinforced with salvaged railroad rails. A large steel railroad span was salvaged from a bridge in Oregon and reconditioned for use in the center of the bridge over the river.
Cal Trans announced plans in 2009 to replace it as functionally obsolete as they’ve done with numerous other bridges along Highway 1 over the last 20 years. The townspeople naturally pushed back to save their iconic bridge that’s come to define this tiny alcove south of Mendocino. Functionally obsolete describes many bridges along Hwy 1 and across the United States, the Golden Gate Bridge likely is the most recognizable bridge that also has this designation. The Bixby Bridge along the Big Sur section of Highway 1 also has this title. In the 1990s, Caltrans spent $20 million to retrofit the Bixby Bridge but were careful to not alter its iconic look. The Bixby Bridge is said to be one of the most photographed bridges on the West Coast.
During 2016, CalTrans completed a seismic retrofit to enhance the steel portion of the Albion Bridge. The opposition to replacing the bridge succeeded in listing the Albion Bridge on the National Register of Historic Places and in the California Register of Historic Places in July 2017 delaying any construction. Construction is currently scheduled to begin in Spring of 2023 and be completed by 2026.
As you look down from the bridge, there is a campground on a wide flat area along the banks of the Albion River. This flat area was created for the sawmill that once operated where the RVs sit today. The Albion River is one of the few coastal rivers with no major dams or reservoirs. Starting off at an elevation of 1570 feet, the Albion River drains 43 square miles of Coast Range. The saw mill built on the small flat plain at the mouth of the river dates to 1853.
A company town was built to house the workforce and railways were constructed to reach the lumber inland up Railway Gulch and over Keen’s Summit. The rail line reached within a mile of Comptche. Trains brought lumber from the surrounding Coast Range forests to the mouth of the Albion River where it was processed and the loaded onto ships and used to build San Francisco. Demand for coast redwood exploded after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake set off a building boom to rebuild San Francisco.
Logging lasted at the Albion Sawmill until 1928 and the railway was dismantled in 1937. Much of the watershed is still owned by logging companies and large tracts of forest are now 3rd and 4th growth forest with over half of the watershed still owned by the Mendocino Redwood Company. The Albion River Campground now sits over the top of the former sawmill site and is open to the public.
Annopolis is known for wine grapes, fields and fields of them. Most are over the hill more towards Sonoma & Napa, but Annapolis has many acres of them all in the ocean air.
I was shooting pictures of the way the rows are set up as I want to plant grape vines in the front yard of my house. Takes three years to get the grapes to grow & wife wants to retire in 10 years and sell our place. Gotta build up that value. Yup, there's a vineyard in the front yard.
I was shooting pictures of the way the rows are set up as I want to plant grape vines in the front yard of my house. Takes three years to get the grapes to grow & wife wants to retire in 10 years and sell our place. Gotta build up that value. Yup, there's a vineyard in the front yard.
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