Skyline Bike Ride

Greg and I did another long and beautiful bike ride last weekend, we went from our apartment to LinkedIn in Mountain View. The weather has been so nice lately, we've been trying to take advantage of it. The route was called Skyline because that is the name of a major road it uses. This ride was about 55 miles from our apartment to the destination with a good amount of hills. Some people bike this path to work in the mornings as their commute! It wasn't as intense as Mount Tam, but after that bike ride anything seemed easy. Part of this route was along the west coast instead of the east coast, so we had some nice views of the Pacific Ocean as opposed to the bay. Here's a map of the route we took along with its elevation profile.

We stopped when we got to the ocean to take some pictures. This was right near the fault that caused the huge earthquake in San Francisco in 1906.

Here you can see the land slowly falling into itself, forming a cliff.

We stopped again to take pictures by the San Andreas Lake, which is north of Foster City on the map.

This road was entirely closed off from cars for bikers on Sundays, so we had both lanes to ourselves. There are a few streets around San Francisco that do that, it was a good day to plan the trip.

And sometime around 80% of the way through, Greg's phone died, and took our map along with it. This wasn't a simple route, so we had to go the rest of the way by a combination of memory and asking fellow bikers for directions. But we made it to LinkedIn alright and got to see yet another pretty face of California.