2024 Pashnit Touring on a Hayabusa
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pashnit
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Into the redwood section along Highway 36 - They filmed the original Star Wars movies nearby in this forest
What pure bliss looks like:
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What pure bliss looks like:
Highway 36 | California Motorcycle Roads | Pashnit
Best Northern California Motorcycle Rides - Ride Highway 36
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Does any of this ever get old?
After all, we’ve been riding the same roads for 25 years. And even with the same riders for the last 15. But you already know the answer to that.
After 15 years with the same faces, we become a bit like family. I have watched my Pashnit Tour participants kids grow up. Graduating through grades, and moving on. And even get married themselves and starting their own families. They’ve watched my kids grow up. I have had two infants while running these tours (my oldest was a toddler when I started these tours in 2004).
Can you really offer an organized activity for 20 years and still have people sign up to ride? Not every tour idea is a good idea and I'm constantly coming up with new ideas. Some tour ideas we do for a couple of years then they get retired. Other tours are so good, they stick around. Even after offering the same motorcycle tour for two decades, this year, 25 riders signed up for this NorCal Tour. Not all those could make this ride in the end, but tour credits never expire and we just roll their unused tour credit to a future tour if they have to cancel for whatever reason.
We'll do it all again in August 2025. And, this NorCal Tour in August 2025 will be 250th Pashnit Motorcycle Tour. The vast majority of these 250 rides, covering some 250,000 miles I've led with my Hayabusa(s).
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NorCal is it! After moving to the Sierra foothills I sometimes wonder why I ride to other states. Well, not really but here is where I’d ride to if I lived somewhere else. You know it better than I Tim, zig zagging across NorCal and more members here should give it a visit. NorCal is loaded with State and National parks and forests from Nevada’s border to the giant redwoods and the Pacific Ocean. Great pics Tim.
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Been awhile since I've ridden through the Avenue of the Giants.
The plan was to hit the Avenue at dawn, with just enough light to take photos, but no shadows and zero people. The tree canopy above can be so thick, it’s dark in here. And at first light, I’d have the whole place to myself. No people. No tourists. Just all to myself. The Avenue of the Giants is a 31-mile length of road that parallels the 101 freeway. Highway 254 is the original road before the freeway was built & it generally follows the path of the Eel River.
If you follow these posts, you see a lot of Redwood Forest. That’s because that’s just what we have around here if you ride the Pacific Coast Range a lot like we do. Our Redwood Forests are only found in a narrow band 5-47 miles wide along the Pacific Coastline. North of San Francisco to the Oregon border along the ocean, there are Redwood Forests everywhere.
But the Avenue of the Giants is special. At 52,000 acres of redwoods, about 80 square miles, this 31-mile length of north-south road, oddly enough, parallels the 101 freeway. So easy to miss the whole thing if you're not paying attention. Not a place to go fast, you go slow, trying to absorb it, drink it all in. Impossibly tall trees, and impossibly green. Even for the colorblind guy, it’s crazy green in here. Over 100 of the 137 known tallest trees in the world over 350 feet are here. Today, only about four percent of the original 2,000,000 acres of Coast Redwood forest remains.
Pulling over and attempting to capture what you’re seeing will be unsuccessful, the trees extend upwards and seem not real. Riders I’ve brought here have pressed their noses against the bark and looked straight up. Others have laid down in the middle of the road and attempted to angle the camera straight up. All paltry attempts at capturing the scale. You can only experience the Avenue of the Giants to its full effect in person.
The plan was to hit the Avenue at dawn, with just enough light to take photos, but no shadows and zero people. The tree canopy above can be so thick, it’s dark in here. And at first light, I’d have the whole place to myself. No people. No tourists. Just all to myself. The Avenue of the Giants is a 31-mile length of road that parallels the 101 freeway. Highway 254 is the original road before the freeway was built & it generally follows the path of the Eel River.
If you follow these posts, you see a lot of Redwood Forest. That’s because that’s just what we have around here if you ride the Pacific Coast Range a lot like we do. Our Redwood Forests are only found in a narrow band 5-47 miles wide along the Pacific Coastline. North of San Francisco to the Oregon border along the ocean, there are Redwood Forests everywhere.
But the Avenue of the Giants is special. At 52,000 acres of redwoods, about 80 square miles, this 31-mile length of north-south road, oddly enough, parallels the 101 freeway. So easy to miss the whole thing if you're not paying attention. Not a place to go fast, you go slow, trying to absorb it, drink it all in. Impossibly tall trees, and impossibly green. Even for the colorblind guy, it’s crazy green in here. Over 100 of the 137 known tallest trees in the world over 350 feet are here. Today, only about four percent of the original 2,000,000 acres of Coast Redwood forest remains.
Pulling over and attempting to capture what you’re seeing will be unsuccessful, the trees extend upwards and seem not real. Riders I’ve brought here have pressed their noses against the bark and looked straight up. Others have laid down in the middle of the road and attempted to angle the camera straight up. All paltry attempts at capturing the scale. You can only experience the Avenue of the Giants to its full effect in person.
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Eel River - this is the site of one of the West Coast's greatest flood events, back in 1962.
This river was so flooded, the water level was 10 feet above where I'm standing.
There are many small groves along this road to explore, pull off the main highway and roll into these deserted side roads - this is Founders Grove
This river was so flooded, the water level was 10 feet above where I'm standing.
There are many small groves along this road to explore, pull off the main highway and roll into these deserted side roads - this is Founders Grove
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Best day ever
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