Great ride today, left Heceta Beach and toured down 101, stopped in Crescent City for lunch, and a few other gas stops. Took a left on 36 and was in Red Bluff in time for dinner @ 5:00.
57-70 degrees all the way down 101, it was even ~60 on the West side of 36. I had to stop at Fred Meyers in Florence for a sweatshirt this morning. 106-109 degrees about 100 miles to Red Bluff, had to replace the sweatshirt with the Hyperkewl vest.
Here is my take on 36. First 30 or so miles on the West side brand new pavement, SWEET. Only a couple of corners are marked, it has some rolling hills, rolling corners and was a whole lot of fun. Next 20-30 miles, the road was littered with tar snakes, would of been fun but after the second pucker moment I slowed way the
down. Stopped at a little store to soak my vest again and chatted with a Harley rider that was coming from the East. He mentioned the tar snakes are fewer and farther in between the rest of the way. From that point on the road threw everything in the book at me, it had switchbacks, a bunch of long rolling sweepers, rollercoaster type corners, crest a small hill and the road drops into a corner, nice long rolling whoop-dees, some straight stretches to open'r up, and a few more tar snakes.
All-in-all that was probably the funnest road I have been on, but that is only because of the distance. I have been on lots of fun roads but never one that took me more then two hours to traverse. Lose the tar snakes and that road would rise to a
TRULY EPIC status, and would probably be on a few more Best Road Lists.
I was going to head back on 36, then North on 3 to 299, and back up through the Redwoods, but there is construction on 299 with possible 1 hour delays. I guess I am going home the way I came in. I'm ok with that, it was fun.
