Bay Area ride Sunday - 30-35 miles?

[jobob]

Excellent ! That'll be a nice ride. If the weather is anything like it was today, heat won't be an issue.

Today I did a loop up Palomares, over Crow Canyon & Norris Canyon, and down San Ramon & Foothill Rds. into Sunol. It was pretty chilly up until I reached San Ramon. As a public service, I checked on the Haagen-Dazs & Ben & Jerry's ice cream bar supply at the store in Sunol, and I'm happy to report that they're very well stocked! ... er, sans one H-D vanilla w. dark chocolate coating

While I was hanging out in Sunol I was talking with a guy from my club who was doing an out & back over Calaveras. He had a nice Seven Axiom, which he bought from Robinson WW!

He told me that there's a bald eagle(!) nesting in an old electrical tower that's no longer in use, which you can see off of Calaveras. Evidently a lot of people have been heading out there with their cameras w telephoto lenses to try to snap pixs of the eagle from the road. So we can keep our eyes peeled for photographers along the route and perhaps even see a bald eagle if we're lucky.

Well well, lookie what I found http://www.pbase.com/tgrey/image/77988640

[jobob]

By the way, the best place to park in Sunol would be the lot in front of the Sunol Glen School, which is on the corner of Main St. & Bond St. in Sunol. A lot of rides start from there.

While there aren't any 'facilities' there, there are several well maintained porta-potties at the far end of the lot at the Sunol Train Station, which is at the corner of Main St. and Kilkare Rd., about 1/2 mile away from the school.

[cindysue]

Well well, lookie what I found http://www.pbase.com/tgrey/image/77988640

neato!!

Hey - weren't you signed up for LRRH?

[bikerz]

Jo - that ride and the starting point sound great!

What time shall we meet? Looks like it will take us 40 minutes or so to get there. Given that the heat won't be much of a concern, what time would you like to meet?

And Cindy, when can we see you? It HAS been way too long!

(I'll be sporting my new Sidi shoes and DA look-style pedals!)

A chance to see a bald eagle - wow!

- Ann

[jobob]

How's about 10 or 10:30? Lee & I will probably ride out to Sunol (it's 15 miles from our place) so we'd need to leave home about an hour before that. That way we wouldn't need to get up really early.

Cindy, yes, I was supposed to be at LRRH today. But Lee & I returned this past Sunday night from Lee's mom's funeral in Hawaii, and I wasn't sure I was up to more travelling so soon after I got back. But then Trekhawk made the decision very easy for me, she called me while I was still in Hawaii to tell me that her husband had an unexpected work assignment this weekend and she wouldn't be able to go to LRRH after all. Since she & I were going to drive out there & room together, I thought it was a good oppotunity for me to bail out as well.

[bikerz]

10:30 it is! We'll see you guys at the Sunol Glen Elementary School!

I'm looking forward to it!

[maillotpois]

Hope you guys have a great ride!!

That bald eagle is amazing. The family and I were up near Petaluma a couple of weeks ago and swear we saw what we thought was a bald eagle. We had binoculars and were able to clearly see a white head on what was a huge raptor. Maybe they're coming back?

[jobob]

Yep, we had a great ride indeed.

In part because WE SAW THE EAGLE !!!

Oops, dinner's about ready, gotta go. mwbr.
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