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Yesterday's ride:
Geysers road- Thank dog for red sand. kudos to sonoma county roads.
Low Gap road- I thought I was going to do an all pavement ride, so I had sport touring tires/wheels on. But low gap road was calling my name- I'd never been on it, but heard about it for years.
Boars and Boarlets- I saw a bunch of them:
It got muddy. I went past this spot, about 12 miles in, and got to a very rutted out muddy downhill. I could have ridden down it, but I don't think I could have come back up if things got bad later on. So I turned around, and decided to head over to a paved road I saw a mile or so back:
Hmmm. . . .
So, I went around that gate, thinking I'd end up on paved FS road that led me to Orr springs road. No such luck. I ended up riding down masonite industrial road, having to go around another gate, much trickier than this one, and then meeting a guy from Mendocino Redwood Co., who scolded me for trespassing, took down my info, and let me out onto hwy 128, near flynn creek road.
That's low gap road up there, where I should be. Note more piglets on the pavement ahead.
Around that time, it started raining, so I looped around to Albion and Comptche, then back to Ukiah, and spent the rest of the day riding around on nice (but wet) pavement. And noticed that my tires are especially slippery on wet paint and tar.
Lunch of leftover pizza somewhere on Fish Rock road:
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