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 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 |