• Start: Klamath River, California
• Finish: Eureka, California
• Distance: 102k
• Elevation: 1321 meters

The riding stats above are from the route sheet. I have not confirmed those figures since I didn’t ride today. It was our turn on the cook team so I drove. And I didn’t mind at all. It was a very rainy day!

It was quite nice until the coffee break at Orick. From Klamath River we took 101 briefly before jumping onto the “Newton B. Drury Scenic Parkway”. It really was a very scenic route. Lots of old growth redwoods. Pictures don’t really don’t capture the feeling of being among these big guys, but I’ve included one anyway.

We stopped for coffee in Orick shortly after rejoining 101. After Orick it started to drizzle. I drove on to Trinidad at 64 k to setup lunch. By the time the riders got there it was raining pretty well and the riders were soaking wet. After much scrounging for warm clothes and the cutting of garbage bags for rain coats everyone was off to finish the final 38k. Too bad. Trinidad was actually a quite nice little town. Before the riders got there I had the chance to drive around. Apparently it was also a quite large and important native settlement before the europeans arrived. Below is a shot I took of the Trinidad harbour.

By the time Necla and I made it into Eureka and did our shopping the riders started to filter in. All made it in very good form but were glad to be out of the rain! Everyone was also very glad that tonight was a hotel night.