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The Lost Coast is one of the most unique and formidable regions to bike making it a tough sell to ride solo. I should know riding deep into the redwoods two years ago that was the shortest distance I covered by far on my three-day journey, yet unquestionably the hardest. Mix in the anxiety of […]
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While California has a wealth of attractions, there are few that will leave a mark in the 21st century like the Great Redwood Trail. Any pathway covering half estate would be considered significant, but at over 300 miles this will provide one of the greatest opportunities in the nation to explore over railrood friendly grades.
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The less you do, the worse the payoff normally, but our February Send It out of Bike Dog Brewing did the exact opposite. I am far more familiar with Sacramento than other big cities in California visiting friends, doing a marathon and coming for the Cal Bike convention a few years ago. While I have
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While California has variety of landscapes of our own, Huffmaster adds yet another niche to our diverse palette. Sitting on the edge of the Sacramento Valley up against the eastern edge of the Coastal Range, this 89 mile loop covers a decent subset of Colusa county. As the second event of the year for Grasshopper Adventure
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RSVP for February 25th on Facebook or Strava to stay informed Continuing our mission of bring Send It across the state, GBC will have our first incursion in Sacramento along with Bike Dog Brewery. We’ll be starting out of their West Sac location doing a thirty-two mile loop on the westside of the Sacramento River. Before getting into the
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While the Lost Coast was central to this adventure, it felt like bad planning at this point to add yet another herculean effort after never experiencing anything of this sort. Day three featured the same amount of gain, but this time over 140 miles meaning most of the vert would be sublte. I didn’t want
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The question you have to ask yourself biking the Lost Coast is how many days do you want to put in? Even if you’re credit card camping like I did, clearly it’s a multiple day journey but with limits how you can break it down. Day two fit that description with the longest stretch of
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Gravel is always an adventure, but sometimes you dream bigger and biking the Lost Coast is as ambitious as it can get. There’s a romantic quality riding along the coastline in Northern California that edges out Big Sur for me how it’s remoteness is balanced out with a number of communities rooted in the 19th
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I’m an opportunity seeker and it’s far easier when you have prior experience to help guide you. Last year, I got to ride Butte Meadows above Chico with Medhi organizing taking us into the vast Lassen National Forest leaving with the feeling there was so much more to explore. Knowing I was coming through town,
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Very rarely are there places I wish to bike and an event comes around and fills that void, so I was very excited to take in the Lassen Gravel Adventure Ride. For years, I’ve been scanning the web for info on the Bizz Johnson Trail that covers the former Southern Pacific’s Fernley and Lassen Line
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