Tours
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Loop around the Olympics
Annual trek to Willamette Mission State Park
Reach the Redwoods - Newport to Jedediah Smith SP
Bikepacking Oregon South to North on gravel roads
Late autum ride to the Coast and back.
Coast Range Gravel Adventure second edition
3 days of gorgeous fall riding on old logging roads through the coast range
Four days and three nights with the kids.
Starting on Coromandel and then down to South Island
Home to Crater Lake. Then Ashland and back home.
Starting in Hermiston, OR and going through Goldendale, Yakima, the Iron Horse rail-to-trail, Seattle and Mount Vernon.
Loop around the Wallow Mountains
Corvallis to the Coast and back
This tour was in three stages. Stage 1 was Fort Lauderdale to Key West. Stage 2 was the ferry from Key West to Fort Myers Beach, on the gulf coast, and the ride to St. Augustine with a stop over in Tampa to visit a friend. Stage 3 was St. Augustine back .
3 days and 2 nights. Over to Newport taking a lot of gravel roads, down to Beachside SP south of Waldport, and back up the Yachats River valley with more gravel to Five Rivers, Lobster Valley, and Alsea.
Around the peninsula counter clockwise. Starting and ending in Montsano, Wa and heading north along Hood Canal and Puget Sound, around and back down the coast. Highlights inlude the Olymipc Discovery Trail and the coast.
Bend to Bend via the central Oregon Cascades. Highlights include Smith Rock, Sisters, Mckenzie Pass, and Auferhiede Forest road.
West to East across Northern Washington on State Highway 20, including North Cascades Highway.
Corvallis to Corvallis via the coast
Ashland to Missoula. Over the Cascades and north to the Adventure Cycling Trans America bike route. Through Eastern Oregon and up lots of Rivers in Idaho,
Carbondale to Carbondale via five passes on dirt roads whenever possible.
In the summer of 2005, 7 of us did a week long bike tour of northern Idaho. We we're fortunate to have Kevin and Barbara along with their van as a support vehicle.