Outdoor adventures, mostly gravel rides, but not always
Quiet farm roads with rolling climbs, great views, and plenty to explore.
Fantasic tour under blue skies, under falling leaves, and quiet roads among farmland. I started the ride from BI on the normal loop to Port Gamble with a small detour for a road closure.
A HC climb to the Hurricane Ridge Visitors center, then a punchy gravel classic.
This year’s edition of Ride the Hurricane had two great changes from last year:
The day the route fails. Adventures in on-the-fly navigation.
The primary goal of the ride had been to see | ride what had become known as the scary bridge – the High Steel Bridge, the highest railway arch bridge ever built in the United States.
It’s not an adventure until something goes wrong.
Quiet roads highlighted by a unique stretch of punchy gravel.
The Tahuya Hills is sparsely populated area nestled inside the hook of the Hood Canal. The ride is predominantly a road ride though the six mile section of gravel on North Shore Road is certainly the highlight of the ride. Legend has it the road was hand built and riding it one has no reason to believe otherwise. It’s a roller coaster of steep gravel climbs followed by steep, twisting descents on roads which receive little maintenance. The joy of riding such a road is highlighed with…
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