Crossing Highway 50, to get to Newtown Road:
At this point I've ridden uphill about 9 miles and think this bike tour was a really stupid idea. What makes me think I can climb any kind of a mountain after not riding my bike for 9 months. I may have climbed 500'. I sat on this front porch and waited for Dick, we had lunch and he took over.
Mt Aukum Road:
While I waited for Dick at the turn onto Fair Play Rd, I met Gabriel, a young man in his 20s and his girlfriend, Shenay. He was very friendly, I told him I like his shirt:
We talked about the prospect of legalization, when marijuana first entered main stream culture (for me, it was 1966, first year at UCR), crop-growing being popular in this part of the Sierras. I asked if I could take his picture. "No." How about I just take a picture of your shirt? No face showing. "No. . . but my girlfriend can take a picture with your camera." Soon a car came and picked them up.I couldn't find my Adventure Cycling map this morning so I got bicycle directions from Google maps. They are not kind, let me tell you. They sent Dick to Slug Gulch Rd - a somewhat feared road with some STEEP climbs. I'm sure there were some 11% grades. But he did it climbing over 3000 feet. I was impressed.
Our AC maps said you could camp behind the store/restaurant.
Not the prettiest campsite we've ever seen, but not the worst either. We were asleep before the sun went down.
Total miles = 84
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