Category: California
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Mount Whitney Clean up and Bristlecone Pine Forest
We made it! Over the weekend we climbed Mount Whitney to perform a clean up of the trail and summit. The first group, consisting of Dario, Salina, Andre, Anina and Jenny along with our friends Adrien, Anthony and Summer from Bishop. We left Whitney portal at 11pm on Friday evening.…
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Mono Lake and Mammoth Lakes
On Monday we made it over the Tioga Pass road and into Lee Vining. The Tioga Pass was constructed in 1883 and 1910 and at 9945 feet is the highest car pass in California, and higher than any in Europe. The original wagon pass was brought by the director of…
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We leave Yosemite for Death Valley
We arrived in the Yosemite National Park on the 15th October and have been lucky enough to stay here for over a week and a half – celebrating both Dario and Andri’s birthdays here! Thank you so much to Hillary, Brian, Carson, Amelia and Bump Burt for welcoming us into…
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We made it to Yosemite!
On Tuesday morning we set off early from the DeYoungs farm, headed further east towards Yosemite. After 70km we stopped for lunch just outside Moccasin, taking some shelter from the sun at the reservoir ranger, James Chester’s office, where he was also kind enough to let us charge our bike…
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CYCLE CONTINUES THROUGH WEST COUNTRY CALIFORNIA
Today ahead of setting off cycling we were shown around a local almond factory where the almonds from Norberts garden, along with other farms, were shelled, peeled and packed into containers to ship. The outer shells are then sold to farms for cattle feed, with the inner shells burned to…