{"id":111,"date":"2013-06-15T20:56:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T03:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wordpress\/?p=111"},"modified":"2016-04-20T13:47:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T20:47:29","slug":"mt-hamilton-out-and-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/2013\/06\/15\/mt-hamilton-out-and-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt Hamilton Out and Back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was really worried about this ride. First, I was worried about the roof rack failing again. Second I was worried about doing 4500+ feet of climbing with just two short descents to break it up. We have an even bigger sustained climb planned in Oregon, and I was afraid that we’d do this one and say never again — or worse, give up entirely.<\/p>\n

But somehow we made it all the way to Lick Observatory. Anne pulled the trailer most of the way up. I gave her a couple of short breaks, but I was carrying a full pannier load. Then I took the kid for the way back, but downhill is easy.<\/p>\n

We could see the observatory from the distance. When we started getting closer, it was actually demoralizing. When you’re doing a climb, seeing the car that just passed you even 20 feet higher on the other side of a switchback is hard. Seeing the obervatory 500 or 1000 feet higher is tough. But you keep going and get there. This ride had a pretty steady and manageable 6% grade, although I think I was starting to feel the thinner air towards the top.<\/p>\n

We may need to rethink our food plans. Anne carries the day’s supply of Clif bars and Gu in her handlebar bags. Part of my training load is a second day’s supply in a pannier. We had to dip into my stash. Yay, more weight!<\/p>\n

Animal sightings: Deer (including one that ran out across the road right behind us during a rest), a horse chillaxing with some goats, a herd of cows trying (and failing) to all fit in the shade of one tree, woodpeckers, turkey vultures, ground squirrels, a motorcycle dude with a fuzzy helmet, and a lost dog wandering in the street.<\/p>\n

Mechanical problems: My front derailleur isn’t quite right, but at least the chain stayed on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was really worried about this ride. First, I was worried about the roof rack failing again. Second I was worried about doing 4500+ feet of climbing with just two short descents to break it up. We have an even bigger sustained climb planned in Oregon, and I was afraid that we’d do this one … Continue reading Mt Hamilton Out and Back<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2013-tour-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucaseckels.com\/travelogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}