Team ChainGang

Big Bear Lake, Ca.--(l to r) Ruthie, Kylie, Lisa, me, Kim, Dana. These awesome women are just a few of the members of Team ChainGang. We completed a training ride from Running Springs to Big Bear Lake, riding the route that the professionals had done in the Tour of California a year ago. And it was absolutely, stunningly gorgeous! We paused on the north shore at the boat launch, and Sharon, our awesome, incomparable SAG driver, took this picture.  From there, we rode around the North Shore area, through Fawn Skin, crossed over to Big Bear Village, past Boulder Bay and then across the newly completed bridge at the dam for the climb out of Big Bear Lake and back to Running Springs. That route is absolutely one of my favorite rides, with panoramic vistas down Bear Valley, mountain peaks visible from the Arctic Circle, and a glimmering lake to top it all off!