Day 3…Commanche to PiPi Valley
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We woke up early to a beautiful sunny day. Our legs were tired, and we faced a lot of climbing today. The climbing started without much of a warmup, as we climbed about 2,000′ up Stony Creek Road to Jackson. It was beautiful!
In Jackson we stoked up on a huge breakfast at Denny’s (Jerry’s favorite). We did a little grocery shopping, and while I wrote the last entries Dick and Jerry made 18 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches…yes, eighteen! Now we had enough fuel to get over the Sierra!
A note on routes…Jerry has spent a bunch of hours working on routes, and the hard work certainly showed. Most of the roads we have been on have been light on traffic and high on scenery.
After the chefs prepared our meals for the next few days, we climbed Sutter Creek road to Volcano. As the name implies, it follows Sutter Creek and was peaceful and green. Into Volcano for some snacks, and we were looking at the rest of the day climbing up Ram’s Horn Rd, Shake Ridge and Highway 88.
At our turn off to PiPi Valley, we realized the campground was an 1,200′ decent to the river. Cyclists always know what that means; a 1200′ ascent tomorrow morning…
During the night racoons investigated my packs but found nothing but empty zip lock bags…na na nana na! Fooled them!
-Rick