{"id":2109,"date":"2004-03-14T02:10:14","date_gmt":"2004-03-14T02:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2004-03-14T02:10:14","modified_gmt":"2004-03-14T02:10:14","slug":"highway-9-copout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/highway-9-copout\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway 9 Copout"},"content":{"rendered":"

3 hours, steady climbs<\/em><\/p>\n

So I’ve realized that riding Highway 9 on a weekend is just asking for trouble. I tried it today, and my planned route to Santa Cruz became just a ride around Big Basin, and then finally just a ride around Silicon Valley. The number of cars on the road and the type of drivers that filled them (those hell-bent for Santa Cruz beaches) were a bad match for cycling today, so I chose a calmer route on smaller roads. Santa Cruz will have to wait for a weekday ride, which I fortunately have many of.<\/p>\n

In the end, this ride would work better backwards, up 84 and Alpine, down 9. But this was pretty as well, and I got to climb Redwood Gulch again, which is always a pleasure.<\/p>\n

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  1. South on Shoreline<\/li>\n
  2. Left on Foothill<\/li>\n
  3. Right on Stevens Creek Rd.<\/li>\n
  4. Left on Redwood Gulch steep<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. Right on Highway 9 busy<\/em><\/li>\n
  6. Right on Skyline<\/li>\n
  7. Left on Alpine\/Page Mill steep down<\/em><\/li>\n
  8. Right on Pescadero<\/li>\n
  9. Right on Redwood Drive (parallels 84)<\/li>\n
  10. Left on Entrada<\/li>\n
  11. Right on Highway 84<\/li>\n
  12. Right on Old La Honda<\/li>\n
  13. Left on Skyline<\/li>\n
  14. Right on Highway 84<\/li>\n
  15. Right on Portola Road (at bottom)<\/li>\n
  16. Left on Sandhill<\/li>\n
  17. Right on Alameda de las Pulgas<\/li>\n
  18. Left on Foothill\/Junipero Serra<\/li>\n
  19. Left on El Monte<\/li>\n
  20. Left on El Monte<\/li>\n
  21. Right on El Camino Real<\/li>\n
  22. Left on Shoreline<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
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    3 hours, steady climbs So I’ve realized that riding Highway 9 on a weekend is just asking for trouble. I tried it today, and my planned route to Santa Cruz became just a ride around Big Basin, and then finally just a ride around Silicon Valley. The number of cars on the road and the…more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","tag-highway-9-cycling-santa-cruz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-y1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}