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I get the faintest glimpse possible across Silicon Valley while riding down Coit Road toward Mahoney Meadows

00432-silicon-valley-800px.jpg A little more pedalling and I cross the high point of Coit Road with its grove of buckeye trees sporting reddish leavesThumbnailsNow that I've passed the 2470-foot summit of Coit Road, it's downhill to China Hole, tonight's campsite at 1150 feetA little more pedalling and I cross the high point of Coit Road with its grove of buckeye trees sporting reddish leavesThumbnailsNow that I've passed the 2470-foot summit of Coit Road, it's downhill to China Hole, tonight's campsite at 1150 feetA little more pedalling and I cross the high point of Coit Road with its grove of buckeye trees sporting reddish leavesThumbnailsNow that I've passed the 2470-foot summit of Coit Road, it's downhill to China Hole, tonight's campsite at 1150 feetA little more pedalling and I cross the high point of Coit Road with its grove of buckeye trees sporting reddish leavesThumbnailsNow that I've passed the 2470-foot summit of Coit Road, it's downhill to China Hole, tonight's campsite at 1150 feetA little more pedalling and I cross the high point of Coit Road with its grove of buckeye trees sporting reddish leavesThumbnailsNow that I've passed the 2470-foot summit of Coit Road, it's downhill to China Hole, tonight's campsite at 1150 feet

I won't get out of Henry Coe State Park nor arrive home until tomorrow afternoon, but a few ridges of the Santa Cruz Mountains, on the other side of Silicon Valley, the place that I call home, are just barely visible way beyond the nearby ridges here.