NEMY. HYLA, NICOLA, PAUL. TIOGA PASS, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA .U.S.A.

September 3, 2016

Day Twelve. Part One. 

Tuolumne Meadows to Tioga Pass.

Coffee Cam

The hike and bike campground filled to overflow during the night. We shared our site and some stories with this girl and here partner.

We had much in common.

She thought I was crazy cycling this.

I thought see was crazy hiking that.

(We all know this is that and if you don't, 

there is NO such radio program)

The girls have crossed far enough into the adventure zone that with there fascination of the PCT, one day something may come of it.

How about being some of the first to hike the new Trans Canada trail?

Who would have thought twenty years ago?

Full campgrounds are not uncommon now days but people lining up in all hours of the night just to get a permit for the Interior to go hiking!

Another day girls. 

We have quit the day ahead.

View from the cockpit of a

JAMIS

"Aurora"

with Flower Power

There have been parts of this trip where climbing to cross a pass at 3,000 ft above sea level seemed epic.

Here with a couple of days of climbing behind us, on the meadows at over 9,000 ft, we ride along at ease. 

Nicola is indicating that there still will be a little climbing ahead to get over Tioga Pass.

Speed kill bears.

RaceFace

High Sierra Stories.

In 2009, cyclists enjoy a high country biking experience

Tioga Pass.

Is it OK if we take a few photos over there?

Sure is!

The highest highway pass in California and in all of 

the Sierra Nevada.

Rust(y) (iron lung) never sleeps
didn't have to trade a water bottle for a oxygen bottle

i have to say:
getting just here is one thing,
getting here on a bike is another,
getting here on a bike that with gear is registering on the bathroom scale at somewhere around 85 PLUS lbs,........



Dang me, dang me
They oughta take a rope and hang me
High from the highest tree
Woman, would you weep for me?

roger millar

It's still pretty amazing.

I'm thinking of donating my body to science,

SCIENCE FICTION

R

The kids are alright.

We sure have had enough climbing this trip but another 55ft would have made for a nice round number.

This is where I love the metric system.

Downhill for

TWENTY Kilometres.

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