5 This is the spot where Adam's bike first started acting up. "Immobilizer antenna .. blah blah.. Call Dealer." We were at the Mohawk Vista on Upper Bonta Ridge Road. There was no cell signal. We could not call anyone.
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8 Several days later someone posted on the Facebook group for this route that you want to keep left here. I wish we had gotten that advice. Anyway. I know I can pick this bike up fully loaded. And the bash guards worked. Good to know!
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10 Adam suffered a similar fate. I think only Eric made it through. As always, cameras make it look flatter than it was.
11 "Have you ever done anything harder than this?" was the question of the day.
12 A nice spot to have a bit of a lie down in the shade after wrestling bikes through the rock garden.
13 The view. [Human eyes would focus on the horizon and not the knees.]
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21 We were warned about this.
22 Easy to go around to the left.
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24 OK but don't go too far left. [Subject of this photo is in the background.]
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27 We skipped breakfast today thinking we would get to a lunch stop sooner. Hah.
28 Still a bit of snow around at 7500 feet and above.
29 Lunch was so late it wound up being dinner too.
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32 Tonight's campground is managed by PG&E and can you imagine they don't sell firewood. So I head into the nearest town. The big grocery only had Duraflame logs. This little shop had just what I needed.
33 Rok straps for the win again.
34 Note the zen garden raking of the dirt to remove any pine needles from near the fire pit.
35 Butt Valley reservoir. Comments were made.
36 Ponderosa Flat campground has first come first served spots. We took one of the middle ones and wound up with no immediate neighbors. I made note of that.
![IMG 8382 The view. [Human eyes would focus on the horizon and not the knees.]](thumbs/IMG_8382.JPG)
![IMG 8418 OK but don't go too far left. [Subject of this photo is in the background.]](thumbs/IMG_8418.JPG)
