I couldn’t decide what ride to do because none of the choice were perfect. I nearly didn’t get out of the house. I settled on checking out Grizzly Flat since I’ve never done it before. I also haven’t been to Long Ridge OSP in ages either. When I first entered Monte Bello, there were butterflies all along the trail ahead of me that would take off as I got closer like a ceremonial greeting. I couldn’t help wishing I was descending the trails I was climbing. They seemed like they’d be fun. Next time I’m definitely going to reverse it so I climb Peters Creek and descend the trail I climbed to get onto Long Ridge Trail (I can't believe it's not named on any maps including Midpen's). I never had the route loaded because I was never able to get reception so I ended up taking a wrong turn and found myself on Skyline for a short bit. Because of that, instead of just doing the loop at Turtle Rock, I ended up visiting Emily's Drone Memorial Meadow. :) Grizzly Flat didn’t seem that steep, less steep than Skid Road Trail anyway, for the steep sections even though my Garmin was show -17%. The less steep parts were show -10%, which is what the climb was supposed to be the whole way up. 🤷🏻‍♂️ There was a river crossing that I didn’t know about before getting to Canyon Trail. There were more steep sections climbing Canyon Trail than I remember. I originally was supposed to do White Oak Trail a second time to get to Russian Ridge but it was starting to get late. It was either do the extra sunset on the ridge or go to Alpine Inn to get a burger. As I got closer to the ridge, the colder it got and I could see the fog was rolling in and I could see there wouldn’t be much of a sunset so I just descended Dirt Alpine. The original route would've been closer to 30 mi. Alpine Inn was still crazy busy when I got there despite being so close to closing. Glad I came though. Their burger is one of the best!