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Has it really been more than nine years since I've climbed Palomares? It would be hot today, with the air quality falling as the temp...

When you bike to work and find a kouignette waiting on your desk, the day is off to a great start. I had never heard of (much less tasted...

Sometimes you need an incentive to spur you to climb on the bike. Club rides are great for that. This morning I was more enthusiastic abou...

It's not a cloudy morning. It's a smoky morning. The fires raging through the hills of northern California are hundreds of miles...

Time for one of my favorite summer outings, a combination biking/birding adventure. The winds were calm, the tide was low, and many shoreb...

This is gold country, and my friends encouraged me to visit the nearby Empire Mine (now a California State Historic Park). Standing at th...

The route for today would be shorter and less strenuous, but my friends humored me with an earlier start. We meandered through rural res...