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Originally posted to RohJuh.com on Aug 22, 2005. San Juan Huts, Day 0- At long last, our mountain biking adventure was finally about to begin! Judy and I left Belmont at around 11 AM on Friday. Since we would be passing right by the Sierra Trading Post in Reno, we decided to stop by and pick up some last minute gear. Rob hadn’t bought any arm or leg warmers so we picked up some for him. I needed some non-cotton socks (the only ones I had were for hiking or snowboarding and not ideal for biking) so I picked up some of those. I had brought a backpack, but the store had a really nice Platypus pack at a good price so, what the heck, I bought that too. After eating dinner at the nearby Claim Jumper, we continued driving. It was still a ways to Moab so we pulled over at a rest stop about 20 miles from the Utah border to sleep for the night. We fell asleep to the soothing and relaxing sounds of cows mooing – a big rig full of cows had parked nearby. We awoke at sunrise the next morn...

Originally posted to RohJuh.com on Aug 7, 2005. Today was our final training ride for our trip. We had driven quite a bit to the Tahoe area the past few weekends so we weren’t in the mood to go very far from home this weekend. We’ve ridden most of the longer trail rides in the near vicinity and it’s always fun do ride something new so we decided to do a long road ride along the Pacific Coast Highway. Since riding on road is quite a bit easier than riding on dirt, our goal was to do 40 miles on the road. We started where the 92 meets PCH and rode south from there. It was quite a bit colder along the coast compared with inland – it was actually a bit chilly at times. PCH, at least the sections we rode, is actually nice to ride on as it has a fairly large shoulder. Despite the large shoulder, Judy still was not comfortable riding on the road with all the cars and trucks zooming by. In order to get some climbing in, we decided to climb the hill that leads up to Purismo Creek. Alth...