Mount Tam, Bolinas Ridge and Loma Alta
Channel: Darshan Ahluwalia
Date: 2021-08-03

Marin County has some of the best road cycling, fire road adventuring and scenic single track descents in California and this approx. 60mi 6000' ride has all of that.

To start off, I go to the highest point in the county, Mount Tamalpais, up the steep and rocky Eldridge Grade. Then from this high point I descend through the rolling golden hillsides over looking the Pacific coast, and then through the dark redwood rain forest that transition into open grassland the further I descend north.

After a roadside fruit stand break and some road cycling past Nicasio Reservoir and the quant town of Nicasio, I make my way back onto trails to capture another high point in Marin: Loma Alta. From this peak, I can see Mount Tamalpais and the entire Bolinas Ridge from whence I came. To close, I get some sweet singletrack through oak scrub forest.