Calaveras Clockwise - Sat Jan. 13

[Trekhawk]

I would love to come and ride with you and Lee but unfortunately the union for disgruntled babysitters/husbands might be called in if I try to escape for rides on both Sat and Sun.

Have a wonderful ride. I look forward to hearing about it on Sunday.

[jobob]

Well, we can all do it again some other time. It's a nice ride.

Maybe we'll save the added loop up Felter & down Sierra for when our hill-climbing demon friends can join us

I've uploaded the two routes on to Bikely, starting from the Niles staging area, if you'd like to take a gander:

The shorter version with just Calaveras is about 40 miles. Tack on 15 flat miles if starting from my home. Bikely says the elevation gain is about 2100 ft, we'll see how close that is - click on Elevation to see the profile.
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path...iles-clockwise

The loop with Felter & Sierra added on is about 50 miles (about 65 from my home) with an est'd elevation gain of about 3300 ft.
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path...ise-from-Niles

[maillotpois]

I would love to come and ride with you and Lee but unfortunately the union for disgruntled babysitters/husbands might be called in if I try to escape for rides on both Sat and Sun.

Have a wonderful ride. I look forward to hearing about it on Sunday.

Ditto.

[five one]

How did you include a cue sheet for your rides in bikely.com? I don't see an option to add one when creating a route.

I had never heard of this site until now. Routeslip seemed so user unfriendly that I gave up on it long ago. Bikely is much easier to use.

Thanks in advance.

five one

[jobob]

Hi five one -

The cue sheet option is fairly new. What you do is, when you create your route, is at the appropriate point in your route your would include in the "notes" box a description of the turn ("right on Main St."), or a landmark, whatever it is you would want to see in a cue sheet at that point in the route.

Then when you click on "cue sheet", Bikely takes the notes you entered and generates a cue sheet (of sorts) from it.

It's not perfect, but it's a nice feature.

For instance, the "Distance" heading doesn't reflect the distance between points on the cue sheet. It actually reflects the distance from the previous point on the route, labeled or not, which is meaningless.

I usually just copy the cue sheet, paste it into a word processing program or Excel, and delete the Distance, Direction and Elevation columns.

hth, - Jo.

[five one]

Thanks for your help. I kind of wallowed through one (shhh...don't tell my boss. I just *look* busy ) awhile ago, but didn't put in any notes. Guess I'll have to revisit it - or delete it and start again.

Nice to have an alternative to routeslip.

Enjoy your Calaveras ride. It's been a few years since I've ridden through there. Now that it's getting green, it should be beautiful.

[aka_kim]

This looks like a really nice course, and I hope you schedule this ride again. This Saturday I'll be busy perfecting my couch potato ways, urm, and I have a sore throat.