San Francisco to Nevada on Two Wheels, July 2001

Elevation map and daily statistics
Units: distance is in miles, speeds are in miles/hour, total ascent is in feet, temperature is in Fahrenheit.
The first four days were all very hot. The hardest was the third day, when there was over seven thousand feet of ascent in the heat.

Leaving
San Francisco

6:30am

July 25


Ferry to Vallejo

7:30am

July 25


The first rest stop


Dry rolling hills in the Central Valley


A wild animal warning in rural Sacramento County


First day's sweaty clothes, mailed home as a gift for Spots as Bengal watches from the box.


The beginning of the Sierra Nevada mountains


Mountain lake


Almost to the top


At the top


Coming down


The east side of the Sierra Nevada becomes desert


Painted desert


Meeting Carrie in the middle of nowhere, Nevada

July 29