The Triangle

Rode the 43 mile "Triangle" today from my house to Squaw Valley (Starbucks) to Tahoe City and then back to Truckee (my house) over Brockway Summit.

Squaw home of the 1960 Winter Olympics


View of the village at Squaw showing the building developments by Intrawest. KT 22 is the mountain on the left of the picture.


Had a piece of Pizza here at the "Front St Station Pizza Co" on the river in Tahoe City. View of Fanny Bridge in background. Funny this place has been here for a year and I never noticed it before in spite of the fact that I've ridden by it scads of times. I will stop here more often.


Looking across the lake towards South Shore. You can see the cuts for Heavanly Valley ski runs.


Me at Brockway Summit.


Back home the leaves are turning on the Aspens at the entrance to Kleckner Ct.


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Got the Seven put back together

Unpacked my bicycle from the Cycle Oregon trip, cleaned it, and put it together today. Bike is shown partially assembled on a bikestand in the middle of the kitchen floor.


Rode it up Donner pass this afternoon. Met Dave Hunter formerly from Northstar on the ride up the mountain.


Dave snapped this picture of me looking east from Rainbow bridge with Donner Lake in the background


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Cruising the Lake

For a different perspective I rode the Harley around the Lake today following the same route I bicycled yesterday. Sorry no foto's. Fun ride though. (Motorcycle Circle Tour)

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Field of Honda Snowblowers

Took my snowblower into Truckee Rents to be serviced this morning. Mike said it would be at least 5 weeks before they can get to it since since, as you can see, they already have quite a few snowblowers waiting for service.


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Pedaling the Puddle

Rode around Lake Tahoe today. (Ride Description) The 72-mile loop circumnavigated the lake clockwise starting at 64 Acres park in Tahoe City It included an 800 foot climb to a summit overlooking Emerald Bay and a 1,000 foot climb to Spooner Junction. There were also many short rolling ascents and descents totaling over 2,600 vertical feet of elevation gain! The altitude ranged between 6,300 feet and 7,100 feet above sea level (Elevation Profile).


This was the group LTR Rick, Bonnie, Leeds, Otis and Paul. We started at 9:30AM with the temperature around 30 degrees F.


Same group sans Leeds with me in the number 2 position.


Leeds inspecting his tube after having flatted on the west shore near Sand Harbor.


Me at the base of the Spooner Summit climb.


View from Hwy 89 bridge looking into Taylor Creek. The red things in the water are Kokanee Salmon.
(Salmon Festival).


Otis on Taylor Creek bridge


Paul on Taylor Creek bridge


Me on Taylor Creek bridge with Otis in background


Road climbing towards the Emerald Bay summit.


Road near summit of climb above Emerald Bay on the west shore of Lake Tahoe


View of Emerald Bay from this spot on the RH side of the road heading north.


View to the left is of Cascade Lake


View of Emerald Bay from the north side.


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Man on Harley

Picture of me in my leathers standing next to my new "Bike" I bought about a month ago. It's a Harley "Softail Deluxe". I currently have about 500 miles on it. So far so good! (Softail Deluxe)


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Cycle Oregon - Day 7

Day 7 ride was from Vernonia to Astoria (Day 7 Map).

Snapshot of Valenda who I rode with the last day of the trip.


View looking towards Astoria. Day had a fall like quality to it. Cool but no rain.


Me at Lewis and Clark's fort where as I recall they said it rained continuously for 111 days. UPDATE just heard that this fort burned down on Octber 4th (Fort Clatsop Burns)


Water


Me after riding up a steep climb and climbing 164 steps to get to the top of the "Tower" in Astoria.


View from the top of the tower looking at the mouth of the Columbia River


View from the top of the Tower straight down. My bike can be seen all by itself in the left hand lawn corner above the path.


Me triumphant at the finish line of CO.


Nice smile from Robbie. Her dad is 79 years old also made the ride although he crashed on this the last day of the trip. Robbie has a llama ranch.


Valenda packing up her bike for the trip home. Her bike used the same S&S couplers that are on my bike. They allow you to take apart your bike and fit it into a suitcase that goes on the plane as ordinary luggage.


All in all it was a great trip. Good weather for the most part, well run, nice people and beautiful sceanary. I may well be back next year.

Andy Bavetta

Cycle Oregon - Day 6

Day 4 ride was from Champoeg to Vernonia (Day 6 Map).

It rained on us on Day 6. Spent an hour during a rain shower having ice cream and coffee at the Log Cabin Restaurant where I chatted with a group of folks from Hood River Oregon.



This is the town of Vernonia with the left arm of Elaine, a gal I met on the road late this day shown in the lower right foreground of the picture.


For an extra $250 CO would set up a tent for you each afternoon and deliver your luggage to it. In the morning they would pack up the tent and deliver your luggage to the truck. Here is a view of "Tent City" where all that would happen.


This was the view from the area where I pictched my tent. Less regimated, with more space, but I had to do the setup work. Although on this day as I recall Alyce sagged and thus beat me into camp and snagged my duffle bag and a camp site for me, thank you very much.


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Cycle Oregon - Day 5

Day 5 ride was an optional loop (Day 5 Map). I choose the option of not riding so I spent the entire day in camp laying around and reading.

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Cycle Oregon - Day 4

Day 4 ride was from Rooster Rock to Champoeg (Day 4 Map).

First thing in the morning we had about a 600 foot climb to the Vista House,



(Vista House).

We had lunch beside the Clackamas River.



Kids from Knight Elementary School greeting me at a rest stop. I emailed this photo to the school.


Quiet roads make good biking,


CO setup a Beer Garden for us every night.


Me in said Beer Garden


Mike an architect from the Boston area also in the Beer Garden.


Camp site.


For entertainment that night the CO bike mechanics put on a bike rodeo for us.


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