Boca to Stampede

Rode the Bocca to Stampede ride yesterday. Pushing it. It was cold and threatening to rain/snow on us plus Kelly had some sort of physical problem on the ride


Here I am in my cold weather gear.


Spotted several Bald Eagles. See this one in the tree?


Kelly takes a breather.


Andy Bavetta

Maui before the snow

Leave for Maui on Thursday. I'm taking my bike and if all goes well I'll take a ride up Mt Haleakala. Rode up it a year ago and ran out of daylight and had to hitch a ride down. Plan to start earlier this time (The Haole Who Rode Up Haleakala)

On the ride up last year. Still thought I haad plenty of time.


At the 9000 foot mark it was starting to get late.


I finally reached Haleakala's summit at Sunset. Not enough daylight left to ride down.


Andy Bavetta

San Francisco

Jan and I spent some time this weekend in San Francisco. One of the things we did was to tour the recently re-done de Young Art Museum (Young Museum)

Took a cable car ride.


Awesome Smile!


End of the line near Fishermans Warf.


Ran into a Segway tour down near Fishermans Warf (Segway Tour)


Good balance without the use of gyros!


Golden Gate Bridge looms out of the mist.


Andy Bavetta

Kelly's back!

My buddy Kelly is back heare after spending the summer goofing around in Jackson Hole Wyoming.

Would you hire this guy?


Andy Bavetta

Winter Preparations

Put the driveway snow stakes up last Thursday. The deck furniture is put away. The off road motorcycle and its trailer are in storage. The snowblower has been serviced and has a full tank of gas. The cabin at Grayeagle has been winterized. The hot tub is in good working order. Not much else to do but wait for the white stuff.

Oh yeah Sam still has to put his winter coat on.


Winter is not far off. Donner Peak already has a dusting of snow.


Andy Bavetta

Rainbow Lodge

Looked at the weather report and decided that today might be the last nice day for biking for a while as there was snow/rain in the forecast. Started at my house and rode to rainbow lodge and back about 43 miles roundtrip. The forecast looked better tonight.

Me at Donner Lake. The lake looks really placid. I look kind of pudgy. There must be something in my jacket pocket.


The Seven resting against the wall at Rainbow Lodge. From the look of the sandbags on the wall I figure the Lodge owners are expecting a high water level on the South Fork of the Yuba River this fall/winter or spring.


View today from Sugar Bowl parking lot. Mt Lincoln on the left with a dusting of snow and Mt Disney on the right.


Closer view of Mt lincoln from same spot.


Nice ride with little traffic.


Self Portrait. I definitely look taller.


Andy Bavetta

Live Oak Calif

Rode the Harley down to Live Oak Calif to see Jan and get out of the cold and wet here in Truckee on Saturday. Live Oak is a few miles north of Yuba City off of Hwy 99 a little more than 100 miles from here. It was cold and the skys were threatening but the roads were dry for the trip.

Jan outside of "the ranch" where she is building a new home.


View of the Buttes at sunset.


Seems like these falls on the Feather River near Yuba City should have a name.


Andy Bavetta

Upgraded trash container

Had a new bear resistant trash can container installed over the weekend (BearGuard)

Old wooden box showing the effects of bear attack.


New steel box.


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Reddalls stop by Truckee

Walt and Bert Reddall, good friends of mine from Redondo Beach Ca stopped by here on the way to Ashland Oregon on the 21st of September. Walt took these photo's with his "good" digital camera. It was great to see them!

Me, Bert and Walt on the front steps.


Sam I am


Andy Bavetta

Caught like a Deer in the Headlights

Check out page 26 of the December 05 issue of Bicycling Magazine (Bicycling) Photo was taken after the Mt Shasta Century. (Mount Shasta Summit Century)

December issue cover.


Me on page 26.


Andy Bavetta