In the past two weeks since that epic, 200K day, I’ve gone back to some old staples. When you really boil it down, there aren’t a whole lot of different rides in Marin. Most of them cross the same roads, intersect with the same coffee shops, and climb the same mountains. It’s the order of things that really sets one ride apart from another. The order, and the company.

Here are all of the possible options. Think of this like one of those “Choose Your Own Adventure” novels. Create your own route!

Rides start with one of the following segments:

• SF to the top of the Headlands.
• SF to Sausalito to Four Corners.
• SF to Sausalito to the far side of Camino Alto.

From the top of the Headlands, you can:

• Go down to Sausalito in a variety of ways.
• Return to San Francisco.

From Four Corners, you have a few options.

• Down to Stinson Beach via Muir Woods.
• Down to Sausalito.
• Up to Pan Toll.

From the far side of Camino Alto, you have the following options:

• North to Fairfax.
• East and south to Tiburon via Paradise.
• South to Sausalito.

From Pan Toll you have a few options.

• Up to the Tam parking lot.
• Down to Stinson Beach via Panoramic.
• Down to Four Corners.

From Stinson Beach:

• Up Panoramic to Pan Toll.
• South (and up) on Rt. 1 and down to Sausalito.
• North to “Points North”.

From Fairfax you can go:

• West to Alpine Dam and up to the Gate.
• North over White’s Grade and on to Nicasio.
• South to the far side of Camino Alto.

From Tiburon you can go:

• To the far side of Camino Alto via Paradise.
• West to Sausalito.

From Nicasio, you can go:

• West to “Points North”.
• North to Marshall Wall (and ultimately to “Points North”).
• South to Fairfax.

From the Gate you can go:

• South up Seven Sisters to the Tam parking lot.
• North down Fairfax-Bolinas Rd.
• East to Fairfax (not recommended).

By “Points North”, I really mean Pt. Reyes, Olema, or the intersection of Rt. 1 and Fairfax-Bolinas. Anyway, from any of those, you can:

• Go north to Marshall Wall and on to Nicasio.
• Go east on Sir Francis Drake to Fairfax.
• Go south on Rt. 1 to Stinson Beach.
• Go southeast on Fairfax-Bolinas to the Gate.

From the Tam parking lot, you can:

• Go down to Pan Toll.
• Go down Seven sisters to the Gate.
• Go up Tam to the Top of Tam.

From the Top of Tam, you can:

• Go down to the Tam parking lot.

That, my friends, is just about it! When I started writing this post, I thought I’d go through and add in some descriptions of each segment… but I’m feeling lazy right now and I’ve already spent long enough. Maybe I’ll flesh them out at a later date. Who knows?!