Nimue's birthday ride

Despite the fact that Nimue got to direct the family activities on her birthday, Ma's insidious influence played a role: I convinced her that since I always do a Mt. Hamilton ride on or around my birthday and Chad also did a birthday hill ride with his friend Dave, she should do a hill ride with us on her own bike to celebrate her day.

We loaded up her bike and our mountain bikes on the car and drove over to the junction of Stevens Canyon Road and Mt. Eden Road, and she proceeded to ride all the way up the canyon to the end of the pavement under her own power. Good job Nimue!

This is a good starter hill -- mostly gentle grades, not too far, about 400 feet of climbing, lots of shade, and very little traffic as this section of the road is a dead end.

Three stops were needed for resupplying the energy tanks with cookies and saltwater tafffy :)

She decided it was a bike race; we gracefully let her win (though Chad did pass her a couple of times for added motivation...).