@coasting Memorial Ride

Last training ride on the Breathless Agony course today, that ride is next Saturday. I gathered 4 friends and off we headed to Yucaipa. I tried to explain to the who @coasting was and what had happened and why this ride was dedicated to him. I'm not sure they fully got it, but whatever, that's ok. BTW, my BF friend @Lesper4, was on the ride. So really it was a double memorial ride I guess.

We started in an uncoastingish manner by climbing up through Damnation Alley until we turned left at this bend in the road:



We continued on, uncoastingly, climbing semi-continuously, through 30 miles of ponderosa pine forest:



Finally we got to the top of the mountain and ate our granola bars. Now we were getting into coastingtown:



A storm blew through yesterday and it snowed in SoCal in April. It was pretty so I took a pic:



Then 30 miles down hill back to the car, a very coasting-friendly end to the day.

In the end it was 65 miles and 7000 ft of climbing and seemed kind of easy. It was cool today, so I'm sure that's it. Next weekend will be 20 degrees hotter and we'll arrive at this final climb with around 40 miles/4000 ft of climbing in our legs already and a little later in the day. Yikes, should be fun.
@coasting, wish you could have made it to the States to visit your SoCal relatives. We could have done a nice flat ride along the PCH, you would have liked that, I'm sure. Wherever you are now, I hope all your rides are easy and all the food delicious.