As a fat guy, my number one challenge in riding a bike is getting up those damn hills. You could say that a bigger challenge would be losing 50 pounds - no longer being a fat guy ... but I digress. The most menacing hill that I conceivably climb is the Bolinas/Fairfax climb to Alpine dam, up to Ridgecrest, over Seven Sisters and then back down into Mill Valley. Here goes!
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| Just getting started. Beautiful morning of about 43 degrees. |
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| Meadow Club Golf Course. I used to think that this was the top of the hill. Boy was I wrong. |
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| I'm heading that-a-way. |
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| Ocean fog creeping over the hills. No wonder these hills are so green. |
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| Alpine Lake |
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| Alpine Dam, built in 1918. That's a lot of concrete. |
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| Made it up and down the first leg. |
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| Ridgecrest Boulevard. Top of the next climb. |
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| The Pacific Ocean with Bolinas Lagoon below. |
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| The first of Seven Sisters. |
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| View to the West over Mount Tam. |
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| 25 minutes of downhill to Mill Valley or another 30 minutes of climbing. What do you think I picked? |
