Biking in the Caldera

Last Friday, Greg, Julia and I decided to do some biking. I was hesitant to do a trail because I didn't want to tweek my knee, and Julia was using a bike she'd never used before so... Long Valley Caldera exploring was the answer.

Long Valley Caldera is about 20 miles long and 10 miles wide, and is one of the largest caldera's on Earth. And I live 15 minutes away.

We were questing for Little Hot Creek, and clearly went by the side road. But we parked at the Hot Creek site and biked down into the Caldera more and hung a left on 2S07 which ends up going all the way back to 395 if you want it to. We would have been far from our car, and didn't care to make a loop out of it.   Normally it'd be really hot along this road, but the partial cloud cover and later storm, made for a beautiful ride as usual.

2S07 in all it's wide gravel glory

I didn't ride my bike today because it snowed...

But I checked out a blog that I liked...from Jed's facebook link.  I wanted to see the wicked WICKED awesome stuff he did in Alaska.

Apparently, Jed went to UMaine, and is friends with my friends, the Jolly's, and lived in Orono, as did Ryan (now in Bishop), as is Jed.  Does this make sense. Basically, we all were there roughly at the same for at least 6 months. We maybe bumped into each other.  Jed's name was familiar. So I looked it up, and go figure, my UMaine/Eastside connection.

Anyhow, his friend's Blog is pretty great.

from his blog, Eastside Scott!

Bike to Work! Fool!

It's National Bike Month! It's half over!

Next week, May 16-20th is Bike To Work Week, and the 20th... if you're lazy the whole rest of the week is Bike To Work Day!


So here's some photos from one of my favorite places, telling y'all to get out there and ride.