Once again, I woke up later than the other bikers and set out to climb the Tioga pass, 3000 ft. of climbing over twelve miles. It was a pretty brutal climb but I didn’t do as bad as I thought I would. It was fairly steep and I was not warmed up and my legs hurt. I was alternating walking and biking so I wouldn’t tire too quickly but didn’t really have to stop to take a break other than taking some pictures on the way up. It took me a little over two hours to get to the pass which was the entrance to the park where Chance and Kelly were waiting. They were waiting there because they could get us all in for free because we were on bikes which was cool. Since we were at the top, someone said it was about 50 miles of downhill after the pass so I was pretty excited to just relax the rest of the day.
We stopped at a small café for lunch/breakfast and planned out where we would stop for the night and camp. After leaving, we realized pretty quick that it was not downhill from there. There were some decent sized rolling hills until we got to a lake and looked around. Then in the distance we saw this hill going up. It was not a small hill and I really didn’t want to do that big of a climb. We went a few miles up and I thought that’d be it for the day. Then, we went down for a few miles and right back up. We had only gone about thirty miles for the day and I was ready to be done. There was a campground about half way in to the park that wasn’t too far off the road and didn’t require a reservation so that’s where we headed. We ended the day at about 37 miles and relaxed by the stream. There was a bunch of cool people by our campsite and just hung out and talked to people all night.
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