Will be interesting to see what the new and changed roads look like. Please post some photos when you have a chance.

This is the first weekend since the fires, that going north, PCH was open past Topanga/PCH. A good friend said Piuma was untouched so we rode Las Flores Canyon to Piuma to Malibu Canyon today. It’s fine and made for a good ride, very little traffic made it even better. When we came down by Pepperdine we rode north on PCH to where the fire started to come down to the ocean. I talked to the State trooper stationed there and he said the canyon roads from there to Decker Canyon were closed so that area probably isn't so scenic anymore . It will be awhile before i ride in the SM’s again so i’ll have to wait for those canyon rides, which is for the best


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where the fire started coming down to pch

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imperial beach, ca

nice pic w the chopper

^thanks.

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laguna mountains (laguna meadows) -cleveland national forest, san diego county

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angeles crest highway (ach)/ca hwy 2 eastbound and down drafting (+ dozens of failed attempts to draft) Tycho Brahe may 2018

Northern Thailand
 

[MENTION=161557]ooga-booga[/MENTION] did you take the picture hand-held? Or from a camera mounted on your bike?

Views from the road. 2018 Summer/Autumn Catskill rides in Greene county, NY.

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Some roads are empty for a reason....
 

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grand teton national park, wy

Death Valley

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Went up Stunt and down Piuma on Friday and neither were really touched by the fire.

Mullholland, Decker, Encinal, Potrero, Latigo, however, remain to be seen. My club has been mostly avoiding the area so crews can deal with debris, electrical, etc. It's a real mess out there. :(


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South of Edgemont, SD.

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Star of the climb west to Pipestone Pass near Butte, MT.


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Thank you for this. I was at that exact spot in September 1996. Your photo brought back memories of a great trip.

-Tim-

Touring the backroads of West Central, VT.

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yah,,,almost to the top of artist's drive in death valley np. deceivingly wicked ascent for a few miles until a dynamite descent...then another wtf ascent paired with more wild descending. a challenging, fun and scenic loop.

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looking back down artist's drive in death valley national park, ca. telescope peak (11,049 ft) is the prominent snowcapped mountain in the background.

yes, hand-held with an iphone while on the fly. remarkable how, drawing a line from the lower left corner to the upper right corner, the upper "triangle" is wildly out of focus yet the bottom
"triangle" is nearly razor sharp. i still like the out of focus part of the pic tho. makes me feel like we were descending faster. :P

Wow. What a lovely ride. Makes me want to quit my job and head out on my bike ASAP.


Yikes. Thanks for sharing.

Good news is that Phil Gaimon has a lot of those Malibu-area canyon climbs memorialized in their pre-fire state with his KOM videos. Bad news is that's not much solace for you Cali folks :(

Yes, fantastic ride. I and my wife (riding ahead in the photo) left Furnace Creek before dawn with the bikes in the back of the car, then unloaded and started pedaling up the hill just as the sky began to get light. We only saw one car on the whole ride -- it reached us just as we hit the stop sign at the very end of Artist's Drive.

We did a few other Death Valley rides on that trip and scoped out Titus Canyon Road, which I hope to ride one day. That's a MTB ride and it would be a long day, but it's very scenic, with a ghost town along the way.

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