Bivvy a Month - May - Tilden NIKE Site

I picked a Saturday/Sunday in the middle of May for this month's BAM. Mark would join me. I hadn't done a bikepacking trip since he had to leave the Oregon Outback early, so I was glad that he wanted to do an overnighter with me. At the last minute, JP said he'd meet us out there, after coming back from Bolinas. The NIKE site, at the end of the Nimitz trail in Tilden is close to his house. A weekend BAM presents the challenge of when to start; if it's close enough, eat dinner at home, then ride, if farther away, or you want more of a Saturday adventure, leave earlier and make, or buy a meal en route. In this case we agreed to eat at home, then roll. I missed my estimate for start time by an hour. I had a nice Saturday with my spouse before leaving at 7:52 PM. The sun still hadn't set yet.I rode dirt to meet Mark at Skyline Gate, and we rode a mix of dirt from Sibley, north on the "Great Northern" route, (our name for it) skipping the section from Fish Ranch to the Steam Trains, before…