POST Ride on the Coast: A tour of the Cloverdale Coastal Ranches with the Peninsula Open Space Trust • 6/24/18
With: Richard, Miki, Paula & stoker Cathy.
Cathy and I brought our tandem, along with our friend Paula with her bike, and joined the Peninsula Open Space Trust at their facility south of Pescadero for a bike ride around POST-protected lands on the San Mateo Coast. We met up with our friend Richard, and our friend Miki there as well, plus about 40 other or so cyclists for this ride through a wide variety of landscapes that make up the 6,391-acre “Cloverdale Coastal Ranches” property, which is protected and available for lease to farmers and ranchers through the efforts of POST.
We rode through redwood forests, rolling grasslands, coastal bluffs, and working row crop fields and rangelands.
Afterwards we went to Pescadero for lunch at Norms Market / Archangeli Bakery. They do great sandwiches and we got one of their amazing freshly-baked artichoke herb breads as well. While there we ran into Mike & Kevin from Chain Reaction Bikes (I kinda had a feeling we might run into them, as it’s not unusual for them to do a Pescadero loop ride on Sundays.) After, we walked up the block to Downtown Local to check out their collection of funky pop culture relics and some fine coffee.
https://openspacetrust.org/
Should be around 17 miles, (forgot to start the Garmin), 800 feet climbing
Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/1660346140