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Destination: Lick Observatory. Having committed to do a multi-day tour (which is fast approaching), I've been upping my mileage (and hil...

My first trip to the top of Mt. Hamilton by bicycle was in October, 2003 (on a recumbent tandem), followed by a repeat in 2004. My first sol...

How could it be so, that I had not yet ascended Mt. Hamilton in 2022? It's October, already! My cycling buddy graciously joined me in ri...

Not too hot. Not too cold. No reason not to climb Mt. Hamilton. Again. I chatted, for a spell, with a visitor who had traveled down from S...

The summit teases: so close, yet still far away. Feeling strong, I was determined to make good time on my way up the hill. No lolly-gaggin...

All sensors green, the air throughout the Bay Area was clean! A day, finally, for the ride I'd hoped would be the finale of my Best Budd...

It was windy, but I decided to head for one of my favorite climbs, anyway. I could always bail out. [Right, like that's gonna happen.] M...

That view means one thing ... I have made it to the top of Mt. Hamilton ... again! Somehow, 2019 had mostly slipped by without undertak...

I struggled up Mt. Hamilton today. My heart rate was higher than it should have been. When I'd pause, it wouldn't drop as quickly as...

The burn scars are gone; the fields have renewed themselves. Three women (racers, evidently) passed me as we approached the first descent...