Mt Whitney Portal Road begins in Lone Pine CA at an elevation of 3700 ft and ascends to 8300 ft over the short distance of 12 miles. Our TandemBicycling.com editors tackled this ride on the Memorial Day weekend and were greeted with a challenging climb followed by a harrowing descent; the final analysis...

It is on beautiful spring afternoons that we find ourselves most perplexed. All winter long we complain about the weather, the rain, and the cold; when oh when will it be warm enough to ride? Well it is spring now and the weather is perfect here in Southern California with nothing stopping us from a...