Utterly fantastic gravelbike climb up Mt. Tam, to Muir Beach, during rare snowy week in Bay Area. Thirsty Thursday group of five of us – part of East Bay Gravel Cyclists. The snow was in the cooler areas up Mt. Tam (didn’t get on video, but picture stills).

Hunter and I bike the crazy 80 mile Rock Cobbler race in Bakersfield, CA, with 4 of our friends. Slippery mud, impossible climbs requiring hike-a-bike, cows, and over 8,000 feet of climbing insanity with 1,000 riders. This is the longest and hardest dirty ride of my life!

Hunter and I gravel bike up Mt. Tamalpais “Old Railroad Grade”, and head down the challenging “Rock Springs” fire road, circling 3 lakes! (Bon Tempe, Lagunitas & Phoenix)

Life this year has been particularly great. Here’s basically what I’ve been up to on a daily basis. 😎

I overcome my trepidation of biking across a 12 foot huge rock drainage barrier between me and my morning coffee. I get to clown on camera. Give it a watch – it’s only 40 seconds! 🤗

Well, we upgraded my gravel bike “Candy” to be a MUCH better climbing bike (really we turned it from a “cyclocross” bike to a super-light gravel bike). After upgrading the tires, we upgraded the rear cassette (and derailleur) and front chainring.

One Gravel Race; Two nights camping; 62 miles. OMG I just biked my longest off-road ever – by a long shot! (This is also my first bike race ever).

My new gravel bike Trek Boone 6 got upgraded today with 25% wider tires, and from tubed to tublesss. So that moves me from the stock 32c (mm width) tires to 40c.

Woohoo! After months of research and testing two gravel bikes, I fell in love with the 2022 Trek Boone. Eighteen months (!) to get it in Cali; but Hunter found the exact bike I wanted in a Salt Lake City bike store –> ROAD TRIP!

Wow. OMG. Words. Just had the insanely ambitous and most fun bikeride I’ve had in 15 years! While I’m zero-ing in on what gravel bike to buy, Hunter let me borrow his 3T Exploro Racemax new gravel bike for a ride together on a 3-day weekend. I shot for the moon – “let’s go up Mount Tamalpais (if I even can) and try to get down the other side and ride around back to the start”. About 30 miles. I haven’t been off-road, really in 25 years (with brief…