Drew: Re: Anne's comment: "There's an oil spill at Refugio State Beach, north of Santa Barbara. You have an option to go inland there. Do so. The campgrounds along the coast are closed anyway because of the spill. " As of today, they are estimating weeks to months for the cleanup so likely the campgrounds will remain closed.
In BPC this is the Santa Ynez Valley Alternate. San Marcos Pass gets lots of high speed traffic BUT there is an old road roughly paralleling SR 154. BPC says at mile 36.5 "start 4 mile climb". Before that, on the left side of the highway look for Paradise Rd or a sign to Paradise. Take this, keeping the main highway in sight on your right (there are a couple of forks). This road crosses under the main highway where it is up on a very tall bridge and continues up to the Cold Spring Tavern and eventually rejoins SR 154 at the summit. It has steeper sections but is lightly trafficked and more scenic. After you re-join SR 154, it's all downhill to Santa Barbara. A couple of miles down from the pass, on your right is Old San Marcos Pass Rd, another lightly trafficked alternate that ends at Cathedral Oaks Rd. Turn left (east) on Cathedral Oaks, the right (south) on Turnpike Rd (at Tucker's Grove park). After Turnpike crosses the 101 freeway & RR tracks, turn left on Hollister (near San Marcos HS) to re-join the BPC route. dougP On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 11:55:19 AM UTC-7, drew wrote: > > so ill be riding from SF-LA in a couple of weeks. this will be my first > tour lasting more than a few days, so i wanted to put my plans out there > and see if there is anything i should reconsider or any glaring holes im > missing, or anything i still need to buy, while there is time. i've > blocked out 8 days. gonna try to camp only. im mostly following "bicycling > the pacific coast", but if there are preferable route options, i'd be > interested in those too. i know people do this without any preparation, but > i have some time, and i like thinking about it. > > taking my hunqapillar with a carradice camper, acorn tool roll, jandd mini > mountain panniers on the front, and a basket that i'm trying to leave open > for food and incedentals along the way, maybe with a soft sided cooler. > > *rear rack/camper bag* > > tent > > sleeping bag/pad > > alcohol stove (considering bringing my biolite stove for the charging > capability, but it's pretty heavy) > > bowl/utensils/matches/cooking stuff > > lock > > towel > > camera > > *tools/maintenance * > > 2 tubes, levers and patch kit > > multi tool > > crescent wrench > > pump > > > *front panniers * > > 5 t-shirts > > overshirt > > 2 musa or musa-like pants > > 2 shorts > > underwear/socks > > rain jacket > > packable down jacket > > sandals > > toiletries > > chargers/ipod nano > > > i put this list together, and it is basically the same as my s24o list, > but with more clothes. im especially interested in what things beside > clothes, i should be adding for a longer trip. also interested in what > people do for security while going through cities with a lot of stuff > strapped to their bikes. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
