Was suppose to be in the upper 70's and lower 80's today and it was. Mt. Rainier was stunning. Plan with Skip was to bike to South Prairie from Puyallup which is basically flat and then climb up to Carbondale on a back road such that we could take the long steep hill at Carbondale on the way to the NW entry to Mt. Rainier. This was a concession from Skip to give me some hill climbing vs the flat ride to Buckley and back. First hill, Skip changed his mind and said WE were heading to Buckley instead as he did not like the traffic. I was major bummed and still am. So I rode a couple of the hills several times and then went to Buckley. Not going to do this again.
Battery holding up well. I changed out the cassette to an 11-36 and could feel the difference on the hills that I did. Used 10% on the first 14 miles on level one, another 9% at level 2 and 3 on the hills and finished at 40% left.