2021 Pashnit Touring on a Hayabusa

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Abandoned that idea and headed for the beach to watch the sun come up.

The surfers arrive before dawn and all walk out into the ocean

 

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The specs in the surf.

All the surfers gathering as the dawn slowly progresses

 

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This was all military at one time, and there are quite a few barracks still here.

These barracks are all part of Fort Cronkhite is a former US Army post that served as part of the coastal artillery defenses of the San Francisco Bay Area during World War II. The soldiers at Cronkhite manned gun batteries, radar sites, and other fortifications on the high ridges overlooking the fort.

There are also numerous tunnels here for ammunition storage

 

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These army barracks were occupied all that way up until 1974.

Coastal gun emplacements that once were manned year round were replaced with NIKE missile sites. Barracks in the background are the same in this 1959 photo as my pics.

 

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Super cool place to come explore if you can come here on a bright sunny day.

Still lots of old houses when this whole area was a military base.

 

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Finally, the sunrise over San Francisco Bay

This is Angel Island, which is only reached via a ferry.
You can hike all over the island and there's lots of historic buildings. It used to handle all the west coast immigration. Kind of like the Ellis Island of the West Coast.

 

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Sausalito in the morning sun

 

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Thanks mate for ya effort in keeping us with pics

 

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This ship is the NOAAS Fairweather

Looking out at Tiburon. This is a peninsula out into San Francisco Bay.

 

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Thanks mate for ya effort in keeping us with pics
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I'll echo this sediment....your pictures are pretty cool.

 

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Arriving to meet the fellas in Sausalito. We've been meeting at this tiny cafe since 2004 to start our NorCal rides.

 

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Our meet spot is right by the harbor

Sausalito is also known for its houseboat community. On the north side of town, there's a whole community that permanently lives on the water.

 

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The crew arriving... Brand new rider Ian

Luc has 8 bikes in the garage and seems to ride a different bike on every ride

 

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Luc & Dmitry

Jim came over from Nevada, and Phil is from downtown San Fran, all he had to do was ride a couple miles over the Golden Gate Bridge to reach us on his Aprilia RS660

Tire inspection before every ride: Leaning the 200 way over.

 

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Headed up to Mount Tamalpais & Bolinas Ridge, but first, Same ocean fog I was caught in early this morning

The way to beat the fog is to get above it. Climbing up the range and getting above 2500 ft on Bolinas Ridge.

You can see the ocean from here. Normally, but today all you see up here is the marine layer.

 

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From a previous ride on Bolinas Ridge, the view, of Point Reyes, we should be seeing

 

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We're riding up to Mount Tamalpias, this is a mountain top that overlooks San Francisco. Fun to come up here on a clear day, if you can get up here on a day when there's no fog. The ridge in the center of the screen capture is how we got up here.

Make sure to come up to the top of Mount Tamalpais on a day with no fog. Looking down on San Francisco Bay. The tiny island is Alcatraz.

Downtown San Francisco from Mount Tamalpais & the Bay Bridge

 

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Atop Mount Tamalpais, there's a fire lookout.

And the view up here is amazing on a clear day

 

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There used to be a train station at the top of this mountain, if you can believe that.