Grav-ing From The Mountains to The Sea

This past weekend was the Stagecoach 400 bikepacking event in my neck of the woods. I had a couple friends in town competing in it, so I decided to check out the first part of the route. I rolled out just before they started and followed their course from the San Jacinto mountains down to the coast. Somehow, this ‘downhill’ portion of the route managed to serve up 10k’ of climbing over 130 miles. I’m still astonished by the crazies who continued on for another 250 miles without really sleeping.