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2020 Pashnit Touring
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Last tour, we pioneered the picnic lunch and we're doing that again since trying to find a sit-down restaurant in covid times is a challenge. Everything is open, but the restaurants have all been forced outside. You can be open, but you got to eat outside.
90 degrees by mid-day.
Can you pass the Grey Poupon?
90 degrees by mid-day.
Can you pass the Grey Poupon?
Good on you for keeping your tours going Tim.
We all need good distractions these days.
Rubb.
We all need good distractions these days.
Rubb.
Head into Cloverdale for Ice Cream and the temps read 107 as we passed through Hopland. That's hot. Great thing about the Hayabusa is it never runs hot, and never gives off any heat.
My TL1000R, you're sitting on top of the rear cylinder and it bakes you in temps like that.
My TL1000R, you're sitting on top of the rear cylinder and it bakes you in temps like that.
I posted up pics of Skaggs Spring Stewarts Point Rd in an earlier post., Riders liked it so much, I planned it into this ride also. Already posted those pics of Skaggs, so how about a trip down memory lane.
Here's Yours Truly, circa 1997 in my super-cool 80s leather jacket with my '90 Yamaha FJ200 on Skaggs Spring Rd overlooking Lake Sonoma. Same road, 25 years later.
Here's Yours Truly, circa 1997 in my super-cool 80s leather jacket with my '90 Yamaha FJ200 on Skaggs Spring Rd overlooking Lake Sonoma. Same road, 25 years later.
Skaggs has a goat trail section after the race track portion that's super fun
We finally reach the ocean and it's still hot.
80 degrees along the ocean is hot! Pacific Coast is not warm - rarely ever. This heat also creates crazy weather.
5:30 on Friday, all the power goes out in the whole town.
PG&E has shut the power out for most of Northern California because it's an 'emergency'.
So, we walked next door to a market and cleaned them out on crackers and cold cuts & cheese & booze. Always good times.
End of day
We finally reach the ocean and it's still hot.
80 degrees along the ocean is hot! Pacific Coast is not warm - rarely ever. This heat also creates crazy weather.
5:30 on Friday, all the power goes out in the whole town.
PG&E has shut the power out for most of Northern California because it's an 'emergency'.
So, we walked next door to a market and cleaned them out on crackers and cold cuts & cheese & booze. Always good times.
End of day
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I had this idea to run a lap of Marin County. Marin is this semi-rural area due north of San Francisco, it's mostly all farms.
I've run many tour groups through here before but mostly on Friday morning with minimal traffic while all the people are at work. Saturday combined with the heat was a different story. Combine that with the exodus to get out the city away from the heat made main roads busy.
The plan was to ride Bolinas Ridge, one of my favorite roads in the state.
Heat inland normally creates fog along the ocean, but this was not the case. Heat everywhere and zero fog.
Come up and have a nice lunch overlooking the ocean, seemed like a good idea at the time. But got up here and it was 95 overlooking the ocean. Too hot. Turned the group around and headed north.
I've run many tour groups through here before but mostly on Friday morning with minimal traffic while all the people are at work. Saturday combined with the heat was a different story. Combine that with the exodus to get out the city away from the heat made main roads busy.
The plan was to ride Bolinas Ridge, one of my favorite roads in the state.
Heat inland normally creates fog along the ocean, but this was not the case. Heat everywhere and zero fog.
Come up and have a nice lunch overlooking the ocean, seemed like a good idea at the time. But got up here and it was 95 overlooking the ocean. Too hot. Turned the group around and headed north.
The plan looked something like this. Fun route in Marin County with zero traffic.
But we called it, and headed out to the Point Reyes Seashore to escape the heat for another picnic lunch Still 80 at the ocean, but better than 95 atop Bolinas Ridge.
But we called it, and headed out to the Point Reyes Seashore to escape the heat for another picnic lunch Still 80 at the ocean, but better than 95 atop Bolinas Ridge.
My improvised detour & re-routing on the fly meant I missed some super cool stuff I wanted to experience with the tour group. 
So h.org, you get to see what they missed. My plan was to ride to the Marin Headlands overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. This is a Civil War era area that still has all the gun emplacements & block houses still there. Sorry, no big guns- but... there are big guns at Fort Point, a Civil War era fort that's underneath the Golden Gate Bridge. In the 1930s, they built the Golden Gate right over the top of the fort. Still there, Fort Point never fired a shot, but it's a cool place to visit.
The Confederate raider CSS Shenandoah planned to attack San Francisco, but on the way to the harbor the captain learned that the war was over; it was August 1865, months after General Lee surrendered.
Fort Point is on the far side of the Golden Gate, barely visible in the haze.
So h.org, you get to see what they missed. My plan was to ride to the Marin Headlands overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. This is a Civil War era area that still has all the gun emplacements & block houses still there. Sorry, no big guns- but... there are big guns at Fort Point, a Civil War era fort that's underneath the Golden Gate Bridge. In the 1930s, they built the Golden Gate right over the top of the fort. Still there, Fort Point never fired a shot, but it's a cool place to visit.
The Confederate raider CSS Shenandoah planned to attack San Francisco, but on the way to the harbor the captain learned that the war was over; it was August 1865, months after General Lee surrendered.
Fort Point is on the far side of the Golden Gate, barely visible in the haze.
One-lane one-way road in the Marin Headlands overlooking the ocean. The Marin Headlands are one of the most photographed stretches of road in the state due to an unobstructed panorama overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. A one-lane-one-way narrow road high above the ocean provides a jaw-dropping view of the City of San Francisco. It all leads out to Point Bonita Lighthouse, built in 1855 and currently the only lighthouse in the United States that can only be reached by a suspension bridge. This bridge is 306 feet above the ocean originally built in 1954 after the original path crumbled into the sea. In addition, a 118-foot tunnel was hand carved through the hillside to reach the lighthouse.
Next... Head out to Point Reyes to one of my favorite lighthouses. Last 20 years, we rarely go out here, as it's a 21 mile ride out along the peninsula at 30 mph in with tourist traffic on a bumpy farm road.
Point Reyes National Seashore
At Olema, Sir Francis Drake continues the westward trek out to the Point Reyes Lighthouse, known as the foggiest & windiest point on the West Coast. Winds at 75 to 100 mph are commonplace and the highest wind speed recorded thus far at Point Reyes is 133 mph.
Along Sir Francis Drake Blvd outside Seahaven, the road Y’s, and the northern leg heads out to Pierce Point Ranch, established in 1858. Pierce Point Ranch is one of the oldest ranches in the Point Reyes Peninsula. When early American settlers arrived in the 1850s, the treeless grassy meadows of Marin County known as the Pastoral Zone was perfect for dairy cattle. The cool, moist coast climate offered abundant grass, snowless winter and the coast range provided water that was stored in stock ponds. The irony lost on early settlers is the treeless meadows are likely the result of native Americans burning and pruning regions of the Coast Range all the way north to the Oregon border. There you’ll see the same practices created the same style of rolling grassy hills such as Bald Hills Rd 300 miles to the north.
Cattle herds of Devon, Jersey, Guernsey, and later on Holstein, numbering from 100 to 250 cows per ranch began to populate the Point Reyes Peninsula and ranches were named A-Z with A being closest to the main road and Z Ranch being the furthest point from town. Nearly 1,000,000 pounds of butter were produced in Marin County for the rapidly growing city of San Francisco. With an eager market, profits grew and many immigrants arriving in California worked first on dairy farms. As the dairy industry evolved through prohibition, two world wars and even the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937, the lifestyle evolved. Lands were eventually acquired by the National Park Service as efforts were made to save open spaces from sprawl and development.
Point Reyes National Seashore
Point Reyes National Seashore
At Olema, Sir Francis Drake continues the westward trek out to the Point Reyes Lighthouse, known as the foggiest & windiest point on the West Coast. Winds at 75 to 100 mph are commonplace and the highest wind speed recorded thus far at Point Reyes is 133 mph.
Along Sir Francis Drake Blvd outside Seahaven, the road Y’s, and the northern leg heads out to Pierce Point Ranch, established in 1858. Pierce Point Ranch is one of the oldest ranches in the Point Reyes Peninsula. When early American settlers arrived in the 1850s, the treeless grassy meadows of Marin County known as the Pastoral Zone was perfect for dairy cattle. The cool, moist coast climate offered abundant grass, snowless winter and the coast range provided water that was stored in stock ponds. The irony lost on early settlers is the treeless meadows are likely the result of native Americans burning and pruning regions of the Coast Range all the way north to the Oregon border. There you’ll see the same practices created the same style of rolling grassy hills such as Bald Hills Rd 300 miles to the north.
Cattle herds of Devon, Jersey, Guernsey, and later on Holstein, numbering from 100 to 250 cows per ranch began to populate the Point Reyes Peninsula and ranches were named A-Z with A being closest to the main road and Z Ranch being the furthest point from town. Nearly 1,000,000 pounds of butter were produced in Marin County for the rapidly growing city of San Francisco. With an eager market, profits grew and many immigrants arriving in California worked first on dairy farms. As the dairy industry evolved through prohibition, two world wars and even the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937, the lifestyle evolved. Lands were eventually acquired by the National Park Service as efforts were made to save open spaces from sprawl and development.
Point Reyes National Seashore
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