Mile 182
This is what I80 looks like just after chain requirements are
lifted. This is from May 1999. There are a
lot of wrecks when I80 is like this. I do not have a lot of photos out here since it tended to be night or snowing when I did this ride.
Mile 181
Note the snow drifts.
The hard part about doing this at night is seeing where the road is
and isn't, because the lane markers and striping are usually removed by
snow
plows in the winter.
Mile 180. This is from May 1999.
Mile 118
This is from Trevor Carrier on 8/29/2009. This is almost at the point
where I80 drops out of the hills. This is between Auburn and Newcastle in Yuba county.
Mile 117
Here is Penryn in July 2000. I80 drops
here out of the Sierras. Other than some hills near Vallejo, this is
the last major downgrades on I80. I80 hasn't been this low in elevation
since you came out of Nebraska or Iowa. If you have driven all of I80 you have been climbing off and on since the junction of I76 in western Nebraska to this point.
Mile 117
This is from Trevor Carrier on 8/29/2009. Here
you can look down on Sacramento and a lot of the valley. The Sacramento
skyline shows up in this photo. Rocklin is the next town.
Rocklin,
California off I80