A Cold Ride

[maillotpois]

Sounds fun! I have never ridden those two climbs in the daylight - I have only done them onDMD. I would actually like to know what they look like. My impression of Palomares is that it is a big tunnel/cavern because it seems you can't see the night sky at all. The are peacocks. They are otherworldly in the darkness.

[Veronica]

I rode Palomares a lot when I was doing my 200ks. It's a really pretty road that follows a creek for a bit. There are many interesting houses and some cool gates to homes and funky mailboxes. There's also a monastery out there, a nice winery too.

We'll be doing again, but including Sierra and Calaveras.

Veronica

[maillotpois]

I almost like that I don't know what that part of the route looks like. I do like that I was able to see more of the DMD course (in daylight) last year than in 2007. But is it fun to have this one section that will always be dark and mysterious in my mind.

I seem to be ontrack for DMD. Did the SFR workers ride of the pt Reyes 200k Saturday. Have the SRCC 200kin 2 weeks. Doing a ride with a friend next weekend - she came in first at DMD last year (for women). She is amazing. I will never come in first. But I can sure appreciate her.