Once we hit State Street, our route was one continuous, gradual climb. This is quite difficult with a trailer that weighs about 30 lbs. We had to take a few quick breaks.
After about 1 1/2 miles into the gated road, we turned back and got onto N Bonneville Dr and turned left onto 11th Avenue. Here is the view from N Bonneville Dr looking back into City Creek Canyon:
The view was spectacular from this point. You feel as if you can almost touch the Capital Building.
Here is a nice shot of the rigs:
Finally we were able to rest a bit as that stretch of the Avenues is relatively flat and we also played around for a few minutes in the Cemetery. While we were resting, I looked at the headstone right in front of us, and all it said was "Gardner". Joe and I had a bit of fun envisioning our VERY distant future, even if it was in a rather irreverent way.
Next, we enjoyed a nice break going down the long hill that is Virginia St down out of the Aves. until it turned into 1300 E. This took us through a small section of the University District until we turned back down 200 S. This was a nice easy ride back home except for one incident.
From the University, 200 S. is a long, steep hill for 3 blocks or so. Near the end of the hill the bike lane merges into a one way street for one block. When we reached the bottom, some clever person had decided to drive up the one way street going in the opposite direction. There was practically no room for us to squeeze around and we had to slow down much too soon, which caused our heavy backloads to make us wobble treacherously about.
Fortunately the Einstein driver stayed still so we could get around him without any further conflict. The incident left us a bit annoyed, but unharmed. Check out about 3/4 into the video, you can view this bit of disturbance to your hearts content.
I must have had a premonition of something irritating to come:
By the time we got home, it was 4:15. With our breaks accounted for we probably did about 2 hours total bicycling and grand total of 15.7 miles. My fitday says I burned 975 calories, but I think it was a bit more because it isn't counting for hills climbed or the extra weight from the trailers.
Here are a couple of shots of the route from roadmob:
I was a bit tired by the end of it and it was quite warm out, but all in all it was a great ride!
Be sure to check out the ride video that Joe arranged and stay tuned for tomorrow's ride report of the North Salt Lake Loop!
