Total mileage: 3863 miles
Stephanie, Christina, Marta and I have had a long standing date for our ride today (things started booking up quickly in Lone Pine). After several days of climbing, we still had more to do, but hank fully our ending elevation was lower than our starting which meant we would be doing some descending today.
The first part was definitely rough and despite grabbing coffee before we hit the road we were in for a Tioga 2.0 climb. It was a long, slow climb up to the top and after eight miles we got a descent reward to Bass Lake.
From there we got to ride around said lake which was beautiful and flat which was good too. After several miles we hit the down hill which was fantastic ... A long winding road which would take us to mile 24. As we were cruising down, Nate comes up from behind and tells us to we have to hustle because the road is going to be closed for blasting by 10 am. Unfortunately the blasting started a little early and we missed the cut off. As a result we had an early lunch and tried to DM a hitch through the blasting and gravel road. Thankfully we were able to get into the first truck we saw.
After we got dropped off and put our bikes back together, we were on a great twisty road filled with rolling hills through some farm land. Sadly I did not stop for pictures, but imagine dry yellow grass and super blue sky with no clouds. AMERICA!! The only down fall was that we biking straight into a head wind. About ten miles outside the host we saw civilization again; the tell tale sign is when you see a McDonalds and a target.
That night we were able to get a real shower (I was on hose shower #4), meet the Habitat crew and find out what we would be doing tomorrow.
Every year each team has their own Bike Prom where people get asked by their dates and costumes are a must. This year each of the gentlemen and Tova each asked two girls and the costume theme was famous threesomes. Over the last few days we had all been thrifting and the costumes were GREAT.
Thing 1, Thing 2 and the Cat and the Helmet
Apple and PC
Mario, Luigi and Peach
The Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion and the Tin Man
Fork, Knife and Spoon
Then it was off to a local bar to get our dance on!
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