Primavera is tomorrow, but we have a conflict. So we decided to do a ride inspired by their route.
We actually have a lot of history with this ride. The first time was rainy, so we went out the day before to but a bunch of rain gear, most of which is still in rotation. It started us down the path of all-weather biking (or at least for Bay Area weather). The second time helped form the beginning of our training series for the Oregon tour. We did the reverse direction last year when Niles Canyon was closed to cars.
We managed to keep the kids (mostly) sleeping until around 7. We got breakfast from the hotel downstairs, then worked on getting our stuff together. It took longer than I would have liked, but eventually we got everything and everyone downstairs and mounted up.
We knew we wanted to do an overnight as kind of a final exam for our pack list. We considered doing the Sonoma/Napa overnight at did at Thanksgiving a couple years ago, but couldn’t find a hotel for a price we were willing to pay.
We hemmed and hawed, and eventually decided it would be fun to do something starting from home, and settled on a giant Mt Diablo loop. It would give us a chance to (partially) climb it again, and to show the mountain we weren’t afraid of it, even after the fall from Halloween.
