New Years Eve 2017 Mt Umunhum Ride

[HadesOmega]

So I had to get one last ride in for the year and I thought hey they just opened up Mt. Umunhum not long ago and it goes all the way up to the Radar Tower now. I used to work in Almaden Valley and would always look up at the Radar Tower. If your ever in South San Jose and look up at the Santa Cruz Mountains you will see this box sitting on top of the mountain. You can even see it from Lick Observatory. I told myself one day I'm going to check that out upclose, well get your riding on because today is that day! artyarty So I rode a lolipop loop from Camden to Hicks Road up Mt Umunhum down Mt Umunhum then Hicks Road to New Almaden then Almaden Expressway then home. This is a great ride because it's like right in my backyard and the Empulse can ride it all! The road in great shape because they'd just finished working on it. Before it was all chewed up.

Might as well take that electric bike it's been gathering some dust.

 

[HadesOmega]

Made it to the top!

Google Earth

IRL

3300 FT at the top enough to punch through the clouds! Ride to the clouds!

Feast for your eyes of the last sunset of 2017

Unfortunately I wanted to save this ride for a clearer day, but on a clear day you can get a good view on San Jose!

Stairs that take you from the parking lot to the Radar Tower

Weather radar ball

Cross that off my bucket list!

 

[HadesOmega]

This is the ceremonial circle, Mt Umunhum is very native american place. Umunhum actually means hummingbird in one of the Native American languages.

Rock stacking

You can make out the other trails in the Sierra Azul Preserve

 

[HadesOmega]

New Years Eve 2017 Mt Umunhum Ride Part 1 - Umunhum Hillclimb


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New Years Eve 2017 Mt Umunhum Ride Part 2 - Tour Time


youtu.be/3Vg16dlCPDA

 

[HadesOmega]

Also just in case you are wondering the Empulse rode a total of 40 milesish and made it back home with 30% charge when I went to check on it later to plug in the charger it went down to 21%. The Empulse doesn't seem to like the cool weather much.

Had i tried to ride Metcalf after i think I would have definitely had to get a little charge somewhere but too late in the day to do it anyway. The Empulse rips it going up the mountain but it also rips through the battery I was surprised how low it was when we got to the tops. I'll have to try this ride on a warmer and clearer day gotta get those epic San Jose shots!

 

[sckego]

Cool pics! I did that ride a few times last week, the road is super nice. There's even some convenient moto parking right at the top in the middle of the roundabout. :laughing

 

[HadesOmega]

Hah I didn't think about that! There was a bike rack behind the fence =p

And yes that road is fresh I remember when it was all beatup ride it before it gets beatup again.