An unusal Oct weather pattern and Mt. Rainier was in full fall spendor. Maybe the last ride up to Paradise this year, but hope not. Cold I can stand. Wet slick road are not smart. Skip joined me for most of the ride on his new $10k Trek bike so a chance for him to show it off a bit. It is a beautiful bike and a step up in technology in e-bikes. Envy? Yes but not in my budget for the foreseeable future. So we are biking mid week when school is open thinking we would avoid heavy traffic in the park. Wrong. I have never seen such heavy traffic going up to Paradise. Cars, buses, campers in groups of 4-5 at a time. Ugly going up but then virtually nothing going down. Sun breaking in and out of the trees makes for difficult vision on the road. Road still wet on the return so caution in the tight turns. No blackberry pie as our favorite pie place is closed on Tues and Wed. Bummer Most unusual cloud formation coming off the mountain and I will post them on Facebook. Data: I knew this was going to be an up and back trip so no need to spare the battery and my legs were already tired from 2 days of working outside at home. So I went to level 1 from the start and went to level 2 and intermittent level 3at Longmire. Typical Skip biking with frequent short stops but impatient at Paradise to head down and only minor interaction with anyone at Paradise. Ended with 30% battery but noticed that after running at level 3, then stopping, that it seemed that I had no battery support until I shifted to level 1 and then back to 2. Power management function kicking in?