Breathe, but try not to inhale

Thursday ride: Sundown last night was a murky affair because of the smoke from the Bishop Fire more than 100 miles to the west, near Elgin, Nevada. A lurid, cherry-red sun sank ignominiously behind a bank of dark-grey smoke and the day ended with a whimper a couple of minutes before the advertised time. By sunup today there were still patches of smoke high up around the valley, although at ground level the air quality was better than in any city.

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