Overall aerial of the route. Click
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Day One
Oroville to Quincy. 75 miles, 7500' of
climbing. |
First glimpse of Lake
Oroville |
Lake Oroville |
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Suspension bridge over
the lake |
Lake Madrone |
Quick rest stop on an 8%
grade |
Mojo, looking cocky |
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Beautiful mountain
scenery |
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Entering Plumas County |
Up, up, up, but not the
summit yet |
First glimpses of snow |
More snow |
Quickbeam on ice |
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Finally at the top!
Grizzly Summit, 5,900' |
Tall snowbanks |
Video! |
Almost in Quincy |
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Quincy courthouse |
Historic downtown Quincy |
Dinner stop Friday |
Some
very heavy rain came in Friday night, starting just a short time
after we got to our hotel. Lightning and thunder, heavy rain,
even some hail! |
Day Two: Quincy to
Corning. 145 miles, 7,800' climbing |
Getting ready to ride
Saturday morning |
Heading for downtown
Quincy |
Breakfast |
There was so much
gorgeous scenery, it was hard to decide what to take pictures of |
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We rode along this river |
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Saw this old school bike
trainer in Canyon Dam |
Lake Almanor |
Entering the Lassen
National Forest |
Next stop, Chester |
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More uphill today |
View the larger photo to
see the words on this traffic barricade |
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Those clouds would soon
be dropping snow on us |
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It's a little hard to
see, but there's snow coming down in these photos. We were snowed
on several times today |
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Gratuitous photo of the
Campy Only Guy. That's melted snow on my glasses |
Morgan Summit, 5,750 feet |
Drying off in Mineral |
Warming up with hot
chocolate in Mineral |
On the way down to Red
Bluff |
Somebody left these toys
at the vista point |
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Great view of the valley
below |
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Long, long, downhill. Too
bad we couldn't coast down it |
At the hotel in Corning |
Dinner stop |
Day Three: Corning to
Williams. 111 miles, 3,500' climbing |
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This horse was just wandering
around |
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Sign at the Paskenta
Cemetery |
Actually a very nice
place to be buried |
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Paskenta store |
Next services, 62 miles
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Mojo checks the map
before we continued south |
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These three shots show a
cattle drive that was taking place in the road |
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Video! |
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The dam at Stony Gorge Reservoir |
Looking downstream from
the dam |
Gratuitous action shot of
Campy Only's Eric Norris |
Video!
Mojo hammers |
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Stonyford Ranch |
Beautiful downtown
Stonyford, California |
The Handlebar Ranch ... |
... where they're not at
all friendly. Read their warning sign. |
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The summit at Windy Gap |
This was a truly
spectacular scene. The photos hardly do it justice. |
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Video!
A few miles outside of Williams, we came across a guy we
called the "Snake Whisperer." In this video, he is
using a shovel to move a rattlesnake off the road (so it
wouldn't get run over) |
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Yesterday, snow. Today, a polar bear (at Granzella's
restaurant in Williams) |
Downtown Williams |
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Day Four: Williams to Oroville. 59
miles, 1,500' climbing |
First view of the Sutter Buttes |
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Video! |
Back where we started. |
Self-portrait in the rear
glass |
Gratuitous finishing shot |
This dead bird was there
when we started, and still there when we finished |
It's a Circle of Life
kind of thing ... |
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