Sunday, January 6, 2008

Bouncing raindrops

Here's where I hit the sunshine and hailstones at the same time: http://tinyurl.com/3ycpyp
The Sunday Loop: Hwy 1 south past Half Moon Bay, then looping Verde/Purisima Canyon/Higgins...and back up the highway to El Granada. Chasing the sun through a shower-turned-downpour that started to spike me with hail.

Was riding this with fenders and a 2.5:1 gear...

stop me before I geek again...

and couldn't get on top of it on the climb today...maybe it was all the extra weight from the ice clinging to everything...

Everybody else went home before the rain hit...They missed a good ride...

Yesterday was good too, though short. WE went up and down the highway for a while, watching the surf deconstruct breakwaters, then wandered out to Pillar Point to watch stupid people harass the wildlife with their dogs...but saw some good birds anyway...eared grebes, western grebes, pied-billed grebes, goldeneyes, buffleheads, ringnecks, sanderlings, turnstones and plenty more.

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