Sierra Cascades - Day 11 - Out of the Mojave Desert and to the Start of the Southern Sierras

Today is predicted to be even hotter than yesterday.  The extreme heat warnings and record breaking highs stretch across the entire zone we are biking.  It makes last night's sleep in an A/C-filled room feel restorative and a form of recovery.  The alarm for 2:30 starts too early.  My body wants entirely to lay in the hotel bed.  But we choose to move, need to move.  The heat is too hard and too intense to excuse the night from moving our legs.  This extreme heat warning keeps getting extended in time and expanded in region so that it seems to sit wide and full of fuming-brooding over the entirety of southern California.  We also need to descend back down into the heart of Mojave Desert by going to 1300 feet today before climbing back up to 4300 ft.  Janna and I aimed to be through that low section before any part of the midday heat was right on us...(Keep Reading)