We are getting very tired. Not sore, just tired. Today we began by climbing about 1400 more feet right out of Idyllwild and then had a long descent and gave back more than 4000 feet. Going down with packs and a trailer is almost as tough as going up so we had to descend slowly. The scenery was beautiful and we stopped often. Total riding today was just 44 miles and trip total to date is now up to 207. With two huge climbs in front of us and with word of a closure of Route 2 through the Angela Crest Highway due to a landslide we opted to take a brief ride to Wrightwood and will take a detour to get to Palmdale tomorrow.
The frustrating thing about this ride is every time you climb up you seem to give back the elevation. Case in point was to get from Banning/Beaumont to Yucaipa, we had to climb and then descend over 1000 feet and that was just to go over a ridge between the towns that are only about 10 miles apart as the crow flies.
We saw our first snow capped peaks in the distance today and also were standing shoulder to shoulder with some 10,000 foot peaks as we looked down into the valley we had been in just yesterday from 6200 feet.
Sorry again about upside down pictures but for some reason we can’t get into the blog site to make corrections but I will keep working on it. Tomorrow we should hit our first taste of the high desert.
Scenery, both the views and also the flowers have been spectacular. Lots of plants seem to be at their peak of blooming right now including the Yucca trees which have spikes of flowers sticking up 10 feet in the air.
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