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yesterdays ride, 218 miles total. way too hot to be out on a bike. 101 in Portland, felt like 200 up there. coming back through Carson i felt like a heat gun was aimed at my neck. it was actually cooler inside my leather jacket than on my skin.
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above is the upper section of the Wind River Hwy., 5 miles of continuous banked curves, posted 30MPH, and steady uphill. perfect asphalt surface, no debris, no traffic. take a minute to click on the larger map and check out the detail, its pretty amazing.
i taped the G9 to the instruments and took a minute of video on the way back, going downhill. i caught up with a slow-moving truck so i stopped filming. the vibration really messed it up, but at least the G9's light meter can keep up with going in and out of the shadows, something my old A520 couldnt. this is the clip after i used iMovie to speed it up:
i taped the G9 to the instruments and took a minute of video on the way back, going downhill. i caught up with a slow-moving truck so i stopped filming. the vibration really messed it up, but at least the G9's light meter can keep up with going in and out of the shadows, something my old A520 couldnt. this is the clip after i used iMovie to speed it up:
once you turn on to Curly Creek Road (or NF-51), its steeply downhill into the Lewis River valley. the curves are very gentle (with the exception of the compound switchbacks at the viewpoint) and can be taken very fast. kind of a relief after all that hard work coming up...
