Tuesday 4/14/98, before breakfast.

Unlocking the bikes and loading the van. Cold and raining.

Tuesday 4/14/98.

Breakfast at Rancho Santa Veronica. The fire felt really good. Cold and raining outside.

1-11 #11

Tuesday 4/14/98.

42.4 miles from start, river crossing. Doug stalled in this river, 1^st time ever to not make a water crossing.

1-14 #14

Tuesday 4/14/98.

45 miles from start. Major water crossing. Too fast and deep to ride across. It took at least four guys to carry each bike across. At least four people had to link arms to get back across the stream. A couple of guys tried to ride it, they were pulled out several hundred feet downstream.

1-15 #15

Tuesday 4/14/98

45 miles from start. Major water crossing.

Another bike is ferried across. Bob and Doug made somewhere between 12 and 15 crossings. I lost count after eight.

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1-16 #16

Tuesday 4/14/98.

45 miles from start. Major water crossing.

Good shot of standard technique for getting back across the river.

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1-18 #18

Tuesday 4/14/98

45 miles from start. Major water crossing.

View from the far side. The biggest challenge was balancing yourself against the current and simultaneously avoiding the rocks.

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1-19 #19

Tuesday 4/14/98.

45 miles from start. Major water crossing.

Once you got the bike to the far side, it was everything you could do to push it up the bank, even with four guys.

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1-19 #19

Tuesday 4/14/98.

Soon after the river, we ran into some snow on the ground.

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