Bike Tours

SELECTED MULTI-DAY BIKE TOURS   Puget Sound & Islands Henderson p. 23 7 days, 215 miles – flat, possibly boring? North Cascades Highway Henderson p. 40 2 days, 130 miles – 9,300 ft. gain (a good training ride) – could be combined with something in the Okanogan Grand Coulee & Potholes Henderson p. 55 4 …

2018 Mazama ride

On June 23 & 24 Odette and Jerry rode from Marblemount to Mazama and back with Kevin (and the Redmond Cycling Club.) Celebrating 34thyear – 2Days, 150 Miles, and 11,600 ft. of Climbing  This year’s annual Mazama Ride will begin in Marblemount on Saturday. We will ride 75+ miles on the NorthCascades Highway, climbing a …

Stage 13

Wayback Machine AUG AUG SEP Previous capture 28 Next capture 2007 2008 2009 13 captures 21 Oct 04 – 28 Aug 08 sparklines Close Help Related Photos The Yellowstone to Saratoga, WY Stage (via Highways 287, 30, 76, I-80, and 130) Back July 28, 2004 Today, Yellowstone National Park awaited us. After finishing breakfast at …

Recent Rides 2012

  (OTHER YEARS)   12/31 – Bike to work. Out and back on Dexter. here’s the map. 25 miles on my touring bike.  (2012 total = 6,443 with 2,686 on the tandem.  60 months straight with at least one ride.) 12/28 – Bike to work. Out and back on Dexter. here’s the map back. 25 miles on the fixie …

Bailey Range Books

Olympic Mountain Rescue – Climbers Guide to the Olympic Mountains (3rd ed.)  Description of the traverse starts on p. 234.  Section on Olympus starts on p. 163.  Carrie is on p. 181, Pulitzer & Clild on p.183.  The scans are from Alexe’s newer edition. Robert Wood – Olympic Mountains Trail Guide.  Description of the traverse is …

NWAC

NWAC Snowpack Analysis A weak moisture band spread some light snow northward over the south-central Cascades overnight and early Sunday with little accumulation along with generally light winds and continued relatively low freezing levels. Otherwise, further slow snowpack settlement at relatively cool temperatures continues to gradually decrease the avalanche danger from the recent rather sensitive …

3-18-06 article

East Lake Sammamish Trail trail finally opening March 18, 2006: Full story By Sonia Krishnan Seattle Times Eastside bureau The long-awaited, long-fought opening of the East Lake Sammamish Trail has finally arrived. After nearly a decade of litigation, 11 miles of an abandoned railroad bed open Tuesday as a public trail. It connects Redmond to …

11-3-06 article

  Dinner train may chug on to Snohomish Published in The Seattle Times on November 3, 2006 By Diane Brooks Times Snohomish County Bureau Eric Temple remembers cringing, with a guilty laugh, when he first heard "Almost Live" host John Keister’s quip on late-night TV, back in 1992 "I hear there’s a new dinner train," …

10-25-06 article

  Let’s make a deal: Boeing Field for trails   Published in the Seattle Times:October 25, 2006 By Alwyn Scott and Sharon Pian Chan Seattle Times staff reporters Call it the local land swap of the century — maybe. Under a deal many months in the making, the Port of Seattle would acquire Boeing Field …