Among Giants
Day 21: Crescent City to Trinidad, CA Today's Distance: 69 Total Distance: 977 It's a perfect day for a bike ride! I woke up super stoked to see some redwoods today. All I know is they're the largest/tallest trees in the world and live for thousands of years and I've never seen one in real life . I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure they're the oldest living things that I'll ever see in my life, so how could I not be excited?! Although, as I've learned with all amazing sights on a bike, I'm going to have to work for it. The day starts with a climb through the Redwoods National Forest to a triple summit called the Crescent City Hills. Three summits. No bueno. The first is the most challenging as I climbed to over 1200ft in elevation over a few miles. As most hills that are at the start of the day, it was challenging. Some people like the harder stuff first because you don't have much fatigue at that point, but I prefer mi...