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Description:
This is a 90.8 mile trip from the National 9 Motel in Gilroy to the Pinnacles and back. It is an annual event, run by Kevin Winterfield and his Low-Key friends. For a better description, see the 1997 MMPE webpage.If you go, you might want to remember the hours of these two frontier outposts, lest you run out of food and start eyeing those cows:
Paicines mini-mart: M-F 6:30am - 6:30pm S-S 8:30am - 6:30pm
Pinnacles campground general store: M-F 4pm-5pm S-S 9am-5pm
Altimeter grade
(Grade linearly interpolated from altimeter samples, and smoothed with a 0.20mi gaussian.)
Each horizontal line is 2% grade. Each vertical line is 2.0 miles.
Altimeter altitude
(Altitude linearly interpolated from altimeter samples, and smoothed with a 0.04mi gaussian.)
Each horizontal line is 100 feet. Each vertical line is 2.0 miles.
Raw Data:
Dist Grade Alti. Location ---- ----- ------ -------- 0.00 0% 240 4:09am, AVS 17.9, Nat'l 9 Inn, (760' sofar) -MMPE- 3.19 0% 200 L on HWY 25 towards hollister 9.4 0% 260 on HWY 25 - begin construction 10.6 0% 290 end construction 13.6 0% 330 Downtown hollister, AVS 17.4 13.8 0% 350 5:13am, 7-11 stop 15.1 0% 370 5:20am, Burger King in south Hollister (5:40) 17.65 0% 520 last stopsign outside hollister 18.7 0% 570 Best road 20.5 0% 570 Entering Tres Pinos 6:05am 21.1 0% 610 leaving Tres Pinos 21.8 0% 540 bottom of hill 23.3 0% 630 cresting 24.0 0% 660 another rise top 25.9 0% 700 6:33am, Paicines minimart 6:30am-6:30pm weekdays, S/S 8:30am-6:30pm, (6:50am) 26.7 0% 770 crest 27.0 0% 740 low point 29.48 0% 780 approaching hill 30.4 0% 880 cresting 31.53 0% 830 starting another hill 31.83 0% 890 cresting 32.3 0% 840 low point 34.4 0% 1000 7:31am 34.91 0% 950 low point - bridge over San Benito River 35.31 0% 1000 36.25 0% 1020 36.8 0% 1010 begin big climb 36.99 0% 1050 7:50am (stop to take off layer of clothes) (7:56) 38.2 0% 1430 top of climb 38.75 0% 1450 begin descent 41.4 0% 1330 43.4 0% 1190 turn R on entrance to pinnacles 8:27, 2400' sofar 45.36 0% 1060 turn around, gravel wipeout, 2400' sofar, AVS 15.7 8:37 - store hours: M-F 4pm-5pm, S-S 9am-5pm 47.32 0 1190 49.32 0 1330 51.97 0 1450 52.52 0 1430 53.73 0 1050 53.92 0 1010 54.47 0 1020 55.41 0 1000 55.81 0 950 56.32 0 1000 58.42 0 840 58.89 0 890 59.19 0 830 60.32 0 880 61.24 0 780 63.72 0 740 64.02 0 770 64.82 0 700 66.72 0 660 67.42 0 630 68.92 0 540 69.62 0 610 70.22 0 570 72.02 0 570 73.07 0 520 75.62 0 370 76.92 0 350 77.12 0 330 80.12 0 290 81.32 0 260 87.53 0 201 90.72 0 240
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