2024 Pashnit Touring on a Hayabusa

Highway 36

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Favorite Shot of Highway 36 - You would think these curves are fast. They're not. Your sense of preservation overrides your enthusiasm. Notice the 'long way down' zero guard rails. This section of Highway 36 if twisty, but long way down.

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We call it 'The Sign'. It's right outside Red Bluff. It's kinda famous.


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It's a form of pilgrimage to go to this sign to get a photo. The sign is a few miles outside Red Bluff at the start of Highway 36. It used to say 140, but CalTrans moved it 10 miles west. Go Figure.

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Highway 36 on the eastern side of the state is a whole different animal. Long long straights climbing out of the flat Central Valley and back into the mountains, the very southern edge of the Cascade Range with Mount Lassen lording over this region.

I will be good. I will be good.
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Snowy peaks in the distance

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Mount Lassen

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Headed south on Highway 89, this will get me into North Lake Tahoe, then to home base

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Mountain trains!

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The flat valleys between the ranges and below the snow line. Headed for the San Francisco Bay Area next.

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Pashnit Motorcycle Tours - Twisted Sisters

A few years ago, <cue time machine music> in 2013, I called up my buddy Mark & said I've got this idea for a new motorcycle tour.
Let's ride the three mountain peaks that surround the San Fancisco Bay Area all in one day. He didn't hesitate very long in deciding to accompany me. I sat down for a few hours and worked out a route that rode Mount Diablo, Mount Hamilton & Mount Tamalpais, plus visited three lighthouses along the ocean, all in one day. It was ambitious. A forth mountain peak in the South Bay - Mount Umunhum, wasn't opened to the public till 2017.

Our start point was Sunol and included not just the peaks, but every twisty road in-between while trying to avoid the zillions of Bay Area people & traffic that is the East Bay Area. We did Mount Diablo first, rode Morgan Territory Rd to Mines Rd to the west side of Mount Hamilton to Lick Observatory, then all the way down to Santa Cruz and back north through the Santa Cruz Mountains headed Pigeon Point Lighthouse, then rode for Mount Tamalpais. A clockwise loop, or u-shaped route.

During that dry run in 2013, Mark and I then headed for Mount Tamalpais, but that meant splitting lanes through San Francisco for miles on 19th Street through Golden Gate Park to get onto the Golden Gate Bridge and into Marin on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge.

It was an ambitious route, but we made it to the summit of Mount Tamalpais for the third peak of the day and then even rode out to Point Bonita Lighthouse & Point Reyes Lighthouse in the late afternoon. Epic Day, but that route could never be accomplished with a group.
<cue back to present day time machine sound effects>

Our Dry Run in 2013....

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Meeting in Sunol
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East Bay Roads
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