Southern California - San Gabriel Mtns: Sat. ride up the 39 & 2

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obie
02-28-09, 07:34 PM
Left from Encanto Park and headed up the 39 towards Angeles Crest with Vertical Bob, UrbanKnight, Danahs and Pete. The climb to AC ends at 6000' on the 2 - big snow. Sunny, very warm day - seemed like it was in the 80's as we hit East Fork. Had lunch at William's Cafe on EF and met some of the SFVBC crew -nice folks. VB heads up EF to Baldy to make it a vertical century day and rest of us head back down to Encanto. Good day all around.


Heading up the 39.
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk178/obie549/392017.jpg


UrbanKnight and Vertical Bob
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk178/obie549/392020.jpg

Pete
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk178/obie549/392021.jpg


http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk178/obie549/392023.jpg

VB
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk178/obie549/392024.jpg

Danahs on his CX bike
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk178/obie549/392025.jpg

Angeles Crest and beyond....another day for the loop.
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk178/obie549/392026.jpg

Urbanknight and VB...at 6000' on the 2 this is what we found
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk178/obie549/392027.jpg

Heading down to East Fork
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk178/obie549/392028.jpg

Up the East Fork towards Baldy
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk178/obie549/392029.jpg

danahs
02-28-09, 09:16 PM
once the snow goes away I want to hit the 2 all the way to la canada
vertical bob
03-01-09, 09:21 PM
We were about 2 miles from reaching Angeles Crest[hwy. 2] when we were stopped by the snow. We had about 600ft of elevation gain to go. From there I like to take the 2 east up to Dawson Saddle elev. 7910. the highest point on AC but it will be awhile before we are able to do that I think. Great ride, I enjoyed meeting and riding with you guys.

dolophonic
03-01-09, 10:19 PM
Nice !
rallison
03-11-09, 11:35 PM
Just did this ride today - all climbing but an incredible road to ride on. The greedy part of me wants to see it stay closed to traffic.

A couple of pics from the ride:

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http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8HKEZakuboQ/SbiHqWrjH7I/AAAAAAAABQc/uKoknWqH1eg/s800/CIMG2766.JPG

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8HKEZakuboQ/SbiHZsqxQVI/AAAAAAAABOY/huuOHinSprY/s800/CIMG2750.JPG

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8HKEZakuboQ/SbiHVfX8UBI/AAAAAAAABN4/TSkNq_vRrsM/s800/CIMG2746.JPG

Full set from the ride here (http://picasaweb.google.com/rallison/20090311CA39SanGabrielCanyonRdNorthOfAzusaBikeRide?feat=directlink).

Definitely some snow still left up there!