Here's the story: After we parted, she and our friends took off to do a 40-mile loop encompassing King Ridge and about 6000' feet of climb. After the major climb there is a wicked steep descent. Even in the best weather conditions this is scary.
Yesterday I had pretty good weather. Fairly warm with coastal clouds. I never felt cold or uncomfortable. I brought a jacket but only used it for the downhill at Coleman Valley.
Not true for my friends on King Ridge.
It was freezing cold, rainy, foggy, and windy. At the climb, our friends went ahead and Jett got herself up the climb, slow and steady.
I am so thankful that Jett was familiar with this descent from last year and that she is skilled in wet weather riding. And that she had a premonition that someone would crash on the descent.
Because the roads were so wet, there were a lot of crashes, slipping, and falling, and considerable chaos and mayhem on the descent at Hauser Bridge. Jett saw two cyclists in the ravine, clearly very injured. She tried to get down to them to provide medical assistance, but wasn't able. Then she saw another cyclists with a head injury who lost control and plowed into a group of cyclists. It was crazy.
Then as she continued to ride, she was totally socked in my heavy fog on Highway 1. Very scary as the visibility was about 30 yards and she did not have lights and was wearing black. She flagged down a SAG wagon and learned that the fog continued for another 1.5 miles. She got a bump to the next rest stop, and by then was cold and stiff and decided to call it.
In her words, a status report for the day:
wet, slick, unsafe.
Great, fun, awesome
Scarey, hard, great climb-felt good
King Ridge done, fog, sagged for safety
cold, stopped at bad crashes, got waylaid, packed it in.
too many riders, too technical for many and that caused accidents-some very
serious
Spoke with patrick dempsey..........that was worth the price of
admission..........even for a lesbian......
