Tours

Click the title for each tour to see the full story and pictures.

Spring Overnight 2023

Start Date: 
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Total Miles: 
108
Number of Days: 
2

Annual trek to Willamette Mission State Park

South Coast 2022

Start Date: 
Monday, October 10, 2022
Number of Days: 
6

Reach the Redwoods - Newport to Jedediah Smith SP

CRGA 2022

Start Date: 
Friday, September 30, 2022
Number of Days: 
4

4 days 3 nights in the Coast Range

Loop Tour 2022

Start Date: 
Saturday, June 18, 2022
Number of Days: 
9

Bending a Bowtie

Oregon Outback 2022

Start Date: 
Sunday, May 29, 2022
Total Miles: 
350
Number of Days: 
8

Bikepacking Oregon South to North on gravel roads

Loop Tour 2021 - Idaho

Start Date: 
Saturday, July 10, 2021
Number of Days: 
9
Map

Coast Solo 2020

Start Date: 
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Number of Days: 
4

Late autum ride to the Coast and back.

Woods Creek Road

CRGA 2019

Start Date: 
Saturday, October 5, 2019
Number of Days: 
4

Coast Range Gravel Adventure second edition

Coast Range Gravel Adventure

San Juan Islands 2019

Start Date: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Number of Days: 
8

2019 Loop Tour 3

MVBC Mini-Loop 2019

Start Date: 
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Number of Days: 
4

Dexter to Corvallis

Map

Coast Range Gravel Adventure 2018

Start Date: 
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Total Miles: 
100
Number of Days: 
3

3 days of gorgeous fall riding on old logging roads through the coast range

Map

Mini-Loop Tour 2018

Start Date: 
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Number of Days: 
4
The kids
Tandem riding

Mini-Loop Tour 2017

Start Date: 
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Number of Days: 
4

Four days and three nights with the kids.

Group portrait
Youngest to oldest

New Zealand 2017

Start Date: 
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Total Miles: 
1105
Number of Days: 
48

Starting on Coromandel and then down to South Island

Route Map

Oregon 2016 - Crater Lake - Ashland

Start Date: 
Monday, September 12, 2016
Total Miles: 
548
Number of Days: 
14

Home to Crater Lake. Then Ashland and back home.

Oregon 2016 map

Washington 2016

Start Date: 
Monday, June 27, 2016
Total Miles: 
599
Number of Days: 
21

Starting in Hermiston, OR and going through Goldendale, Yakima, the Iron Horse rail-to-trail, Seattle and Mount Vernon.

Map of 2016 Washington ride

MVBC Loop Tour 2016 - Wallowas

Start Date: 
Saturday, June 18, 2016
Total Miles: 
334
Number of Days: 
9

Loop around the Wallow Mountains

Map

Coast Loop - Bike Travel Weekend

Start Date: 
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Total Miles: 
192
Number of Days: 
4

Corvallis to the Coast and back

Google Map

Florida 2016

Start Date: 
Friday, February 19, 2016
Total Miles: 
1011
Number of Days: 
23

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 .

Map of my Florida Tour

Coast Loop 2015

Start Date: 
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Total Miles: 
178
Number of Days: 
3

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.

At Seal Rock

MVBC Loop Tour 2015 - Olympic Peninsula

Start Date: 
Saturday, July 11, 2015
Total Miles: 
682
Number of Days: 
14

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.

Loop Tour Map

MVBC Loop Tour 2014 - Oregon Cascades

Start Date: 
Monday, July 14, 2014
Total Miles: 
400
Number of Days: 
9

Bend to Bend via the central Oregon Cascades. Highlights include Smith Rock, Sisters, Mckenzie Pass, and Auferhiede Forest road.

Map

Northern Washington 2013

Start Date: 
Monday, July 15, 2013
Total Miles: 
384
Number of Days: 
7

West to East across Northern Washington on State Highway 20, including North Cascades Highway.

Map

North Oregon Coast 2012

Start Date: 
Monday, September 10, 2012
Total Miles: 
265
Number of Days: 
10

Corvallis to Corvallis via the coast

Map of Coast Tour stage 1

Northwest Passage 2010

Start Date: 
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Total Miles: 
1,015
Number of Days: 
21

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,

NWP Route

Colorado 2009

Start Date: 
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Total Miles: 
350
Number of Days: 
9

Carbondale to Carbondale via five passes on dirt roads whenever possible.

Map of the route
Mclure Pass

Northern Idaho - 2005

Start Date: 
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Total Miles: 
350
Number of Days: 
9

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.