Cycle Oregon - Day 3

Day 3 ride was from the Dalles to Rooster Rock (Day 3 Map).

Early morning.


L to R me Alyce and my bike


I think that is Mt Adams in background.


Old Hwy 30.



Sreet vendors


She was proud of her school and took me on a tour.


Cool stop.


Met this lady at rest stop and she dragged me the last 15 miles into camp into a headwind.



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Cycle Oregon - Day 2

Day 2 ride was from Condon to the Dalles (Day 2 Map).

Early on in the ride giant wind mills dominated the landscape


Rest stop was at the bottom of a awesome downhill.


Arid landscape here looks a little like Orange County CA


Deschutes River beside rest stop.


Lunch


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Cycle Oregon (10-17 Sept 2005) - Day 1

Decided at the last minute to ride Cycle Oregon (Cycle Oregon). Flew up to Portland and was met at the airport by Alyce, a friend of Gene's.

Bike packed up and ready to leave on Thursday 9/8.


Left early morning on Thursday. Picture shows sunrise over Reno.


Arrive Boardman OR by bus from Portland. My small tent and Alyce with her larger tent in background. Still have to unpack and assemble my bike.


Boardman camp..


Duck over looking Columbia River.


Entertainment that night included Nichole Tarter. She gave me a Demo CD.


Started out early Sunday morning since the first day was over 80 miles and included 6400 feet of climbing. This days ride was from Boardman to Condon. (Day 1 Boardman to Condon Map)


Local band on route corner.


Early morning.


Look no cars


Lonely farm house.


Hill


I'm taking a break.


Well marked course. Just follow the pink arrows.


Entering Condon


Condon


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Restarting Blog

Rode the Flume Trail today with Robert, Wallace and Gene

Wallace, Robert, Me and Gene. Check out the view!


Gene, Me and Robert


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A temporary setback

Ryan flew off to Portland to meet Jesse without me since I somehow managed to tweak my back on Sunday. My plan is to recooperate and meet them in Clarkson, WA about a week into the trip. We shall see.

Interim means of locomotion


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Preparing for the ride

Practice setting up the tents where its warm and dry!

Living room bivouac


Trail loading of Ryan's bike.


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Bike Route

This is the complete route plan layed out on the kitchen floor from Astoria, OR to Cambridge, MA. The total length of our ride is 4330 miles. Our path will follow the Adventure Cycling Lewis and Clark trail from Astoria, OR (or Portland) to Jefferson, SD where we hook up with RAGBRAI to ride across Iowa and then follow the Adventure Cycling Northern Tier route to Rochester, NY. There we follow the NY state Route 5 bicycle route to the border of MA. Finally we navigate backroads across MA to Cambridge. If all goes well the total trip length will be approximately 64 days. I have been busy packing for 2 weeks. Ryan on the other hand is taking a more relaxed approach and probably won't pack until the night before we plan to leave.


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Snow on the 7th of June

Started to snow last night around 7PM. This was the scene this morning about 8:30AM.


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Sierra Century

Rode the Sierra century on Saturday with Robert, Ryan and Wallace. A lot of other folks from Truckee were also on the ride including Bonnie and Leeds (Sierra Century 2005). Camped out Friday night in the Amador County Fairgrounds. Rode the metric century. It was challenging enough some 67 miles with 4600 feet of climbing.

Saurday morning tooth hygene at the campsite.


The gang.


On the fly.




Ryan.






Robert


Bonnie and Leeds


Me


Ride over, time to cool down!


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Test of my new camera phone

This is my first mobile blog. If it works then this is one way I will be able to update the blog while we are on our cross country bike trip. The picture was taken of my Tusunami touring bike made by Seven Cycles, parked outside my home in truckee. My phone is a Motorola V710.