Miles 60, Total 410
A great day of riding. There were some pretty nice hills to climb today, but the grade throughout the day was great. We climbed a total of about 4,200 ft, so again, a pretty good climbing day.
The highlight of the day was riding through two different Redwoods State Parks. Those trees are just magnificent and I never get enough of just admiring them. The parks have Coast Redwoods and Giant Sequoia trees. The Sequoia’s are the big around ones and the other are tall. They get to 350 feet tall. Some signs also mentioned that the Coast Redwoods can live as long as 2,000 years and the Sequoia’s can live 3,000 years. Crazy!
The roads were not as busy as I thought they would be and the traffic through the parks was very patient. After the parks, it was just a matter of putting in the miles to get to Trinidad. Most of the traveling is along 101, so there is plenty of traffic along there and you are pretty much just paying attention to the road. Fortunately, the park was off 101 and commercial vehicles where not allowed in there.
This Paul Bunyan and Babe is pretty iconic for cyclists to take a picture a they pass by.
Entering the parks. And just some good pictures of the day.
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