Volcanoes and Passes - Part 2

Welcome to San Francisco.

Today you will ride north from San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge toward Napa and the famous wine country of California. We will ride mile after mile viewing the beautiful wineries and fields as we head north toward Clearlake. We turn inland and head into the farmland of the San Jaquan Valley. Your destination is Yuba City, home of the wild chickens and roosters.

Today you will start to see the many mountain passes and summits on our tour. Ride through Yuba Pass, Little Truckee Summit, Donner Pass and Spooner Summit. For a good amount of the day, you will be on the famous CA 49 road which has so many gentle turns and twists that you will be amazed. Make at the Donner Pass Memorial State Park, then ride toward Lake Tahoe and Incline Village. You will continue to ride around the Northeast section of Lake Tahoe before you turn left and ride into Carson City, NV the capital of Nevada.

Depart Nevada today and head back over to California where we ride the rest of our tour. Today ride thorough Daggett Pass, Luther Pass, Carson Pass and will visit the Calaveras Big Trees State Park. As you depart Carson City, ride with the majestic Sierra Nevada mountains on the right-hand side and head up Route 207 towards Stateline and into South Lake Tahoe. From South Lake Tahoe, we immediately move into the mountain passes at elevations from 6,500 to 8,200 ft (1,981 to 2,500 meters). Visit the Calaveras Big Tree State Park where you will see some of the many Giant Sequoia groves located in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Your destination today is the Tuolumne/Sonora area of the Sierra Nevada’s

Today to will take on two of the highest mountain passes in the United States, Sonora and Tioga Passes. We depart the Tuolumne/Sonora area and immediately head east up the Sonora Pass 9,623 ft (2,933 meters). After we reach the far side of the Sonora Pass we will turn right and head South on Rt 395 riding past Devil’s Gate Pass. After a break at Lee Vining we head toward Tioga Pass and its 9,9944 ft (3,030 meters). It will be a long day, but an amazing accomplishment. We will touch the edge of Yosemite, but not to worry as we take on Yosemite on tomorrows ride. Our rooms are right beside the ragging Merced River.

One of the most beautiful National Parks in the US is Yosemite and today we ride to a many beautiful locations within the park as we can. Expect to see Yosemite Falls, Half Dome, Glacier Point are just a few of the locations we will travel to. After we leave the park, we will have a beautiful ride beside Bass Lake and a photo opportunity in North Fork at the Geographical Center of California. Our final leg takes us into Fresno, heart of the Central Valley of California.

With only two days left on our fantastic tour, we depart Fresno and ride through the rolling hills of southern central valley. We will climb up the lower section of the Sierras into Kerrville where break for lunch before we take on our final two passes for the day, Walker and Tehachapi Passes. Once we stop at Tehachapi Pass, we will have completed most of the mountain passes of the Sierra Nevada. An amazing accomplishment.

For our final day of riding, we will ride from Tehachapi to EagleRider in Hawthorne, CA. Our ride wraps up on traveling out of Tehachapi to the Tejon Pass our last and final pass of our amazing journey. We make our way to the Pacific Ocean where we ride Highway 1 past Malibu and the area of some of the best surfing in the world. After turning in our trusty motorcycles we check into our hotel

Departure. Today your exciting trip will conclude in Los Angeles