El Toro and Hicks Road
What better way to celebrate the last Saturday of October than with good beer and tough hills?
The last time I visited the El Toro Brewing Company was during a ride in February. The weather was beautiful: you just could not ask for better weather to ride in.
This time, I waited until mile 55 to stop at the ETBC. I turned around near Highway 25 south of Gilroy. By the time I got back into Morgan Hill, I was ready for the beer and pizza... I had their BBQ (beerbeque!) chicken pizza. Amazing! And the Extra Hoppy Poppy Jasper and the IPA were both really good!
After procrastinating there for way too long, I made my way up into the hills west of town. After riding up past the reservoirs (I hadn't ridden through this area since 1996), I headed onto Almaden Road, and then up and over the south side of Hicks Road. What a tough climb! There aren't many climbs in this area that can compare with Hicks. It seemed pretty hard at least... It may have just been that I was topping out the climb at mile 80. =)
After bombing down the hill, I headed through Los Gatos and back through town. I stopped a Peets for a while to keep the caffeine intake up.
All in all, a great ride for a total of 105 miles and perhaps 4000 feet of climbing.
The last time I visited the El Toro Brewing Company was during a ride in February. The weather was beautiful: you just could not ask for better weather to ride in.
This time, I waited until mile 55 to stop at the ETBC. I turned around near Highway 25 south of Gilroy. By the time I got back into Morgan Hill, I was ready for the beer and pizza... I had their BBQ (beerbeque!) chicken pizza. Amazing! And the Extra Hoppy Poppy Jasper and the IPA were both really good!
After procrastinating there for way too long, I made my way up into the hills west of town. After riding up past the reservoirs (I hadn't ridden through this area since 1996), I headed onto Almaden Road, and then up and over the south side of Hicks Road. What a tough climb! There aren't many climbs in this area that can compare with Hicks. It seemed pretty hard at least... It may have just been that I was topping out the climb at mile 80. =)
After bombing down the hill, I headed through Los Gatos and back through town. I stopped a Peets for a while to keep the caffeine intake up.
All in all, a great ride for a total of 105 miles and perhaps 4000 feet of climbing.
;)
posted by Mike Deitchman at
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