Originally Posted by
questr
Thanks for all the responses so far! I'm leaving from Ann Arbor, MI and want to go to Santa Cruz, CA. The reason I ask is because I'm trying to avoid Nevada specifically. I'll be riding in the Summer and, since I'm new, I'm not sure it would be safe for me to be riding through that heat.
Nevada's not that bad heat-wise outside of Vegas. I'm assuming you'd do something like
this, which doesn't drop below 4,000 feet. CA is going to be hotter than NV unless you're riding along the CA coast the whole time.