Today's ride was 700 feet less climbing and about the same distance as yesterday, but seemed easier! Maybe it depends on how the medicine is delivered?
Anyway, we started climbing from the git-go, into a steady headwind, for about 20 miles, until we started a nice long decent into Bridgeport, which was about our halfway point.
Highway 395 is a beautiful road along here and we were following the Walker River, but there just weren't many photo opportunities. The river was low and the traffic was high.
Here's one snap along the way...
We stopped for lunch in Bridgeport at the "Burger Barn," but I had Bison, so I had no guilt when I took this.
We crossed paths with another rider who had started from Bellingham, but his route was via a week at Burning Man and he had the gray dust on his saddlebags to prove it! We visited a bit here and there on the way up the hill because one or the other of us would stop for a break or a photo.
While the Aspens along Monitor Pass had already dropped their leaves or were on the way to doing so, we saw some that were starting to change today.
We reached the summit not long after, and guess who insisted on a photo?
We had a nice, but not quite long enough downhill toward Lee Vining.
It was "about" seven miles to town. There was a highway sign that said 7, then, a ways down the road another that said 7... Maybe there was a surplus sign.
We came to rest in an RV park in Lee Vining, which was quite handy, because we realized it was Saturday and we'd mailed stuff to ourselves to be picked up at the Post Office, which is closed on Sunday.
An unexpected, er, unintended, day off!
The ride up Tioga Pass awaits!
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