Sometimes it really is as hard as it looks

Well, so I'll see how keeping a ride blog goes.

Sunday was a Western Wheelers ride that was not too long, but had possibly the toughest bit of hill I've done yet. It was scary going down because I knew I'd have to go back up...actually considered stopping midway to avoid that, not that I could have on a 20+% grade...
Fortunately there were only two of those, but that wasn't obvious on the downhill, which made me a bix anxious anticipating the return trip up.

Anyhow, the curious thing about Portola State Park road is that it made West Alpine seem like...well...a walk in the park. Oddly enough.



Also I've been playing with RoboGeo , since it dawned on me that I always had a GPS track for my photos now. It nicely geocoded all my shots with my new Sony T10, and here they are:

Now if only the MotionBased guys could grab that stuff, things would be perfect.

Except for the 23% grades, that is. Those are not perfect.

Same thing as the old joke about the guy who liked to beat himself on the head.