Day 4/June 11 Black Butte River Ranch Cmpground to Lake Pillsbury 43 miles Total So Far: 200 miles I wake up at six, having actually gotten nine hours of sleep. It’s warm enough for me to feel my feet. I can linger over breakfast without shivering. On a picnic table. I can shuffle to a […]

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Day 3/June 10 Zenia to Black Butte River Ranch Campground 63 miles Total so Far: 157 miles Cold wakes me up at two a.m. It’s freezingg, and my sleeping bag is providing almost no insulation. Exhausted and shivering, all my mind can do is repeat hypothermia over and over until I remember that panicking is […]

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Day 2/June 9 Rattlesnake Ridge to Zenia 49 miles Total So Far: 94 miles I sleep until midnight, at which point I am awoken to the acute sensation of being on a leaky raft. I just watched Moana the other day so I’ll use the metaphor of finally being at sea but then being shipwrecked. […]

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Disclaimer: no hypothermia was contracted in the making of this post Day 1/June 8 Arcata to Rattlesnake Ridge 45 miles Total So Far: 45 miles In the end, I decide not to bike into Arcata to get a grandiose starting photo at the Los Bagels store there, whosekind of good for the West Coast Bagels […]

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Another ride! Shorter this time. To where? Who knows? I’m still raising money for the Sierra Club–I’ll post my fundraising letter soon I promise!! In the meantime here’s the first post for this new ride: Day 0 Oakland to Arcata 220 miles (by train/bus, not incl. in total) I haven’t left home by myself this […]

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