Outdoor adventures, mostly gravel rides, but not always
A tour of quiet Kitsap roads and the Stottlemeyer trail system
A quiet roads ride with plenty of gravel options from Bainbridge to Port Gamble’s Stottlemeyer trail system.
A tour of the Olympics' forest service roads over Bon Jon Pass
I’ve climbed Bon Jon before and with the great weather decided to have a crack at it again.
A mixed surface trail run through the Olympics
We wanted a bit of an adventure run without a lot of running through snow and this route was nearly perfect.
A loop trail over Mt Townsend with a stop along the way at Silver Lakes
Mt Townsend is an extremely popular hike in the Olympics appearing in all the popular day hike books. This route built on the standard hike by adding an extension to make a loop via a short jaunt on FR 2870 and the Silver Lakes Way Trail.
One of the more beautiful hikes in the Olympics, especially for visiting high alpine lakes
I hadn’t been to Royal Lake since a backpacking trip in July 2011. At the time we were unable to make it to the upper basin because of a late melting snow pack. I was excited to explore the upper basin on this trip as over the last few years I had become pretty familiar with the region from prior rides and hikes.
A scenic tour of lightly used roads with excellent views of the Hood Canal
The tour ridden clockwise ascends gravel and descends a near-perfect paved road.
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.
Traveling along an abandon road washed away by a river to enjoy a scenic lunch
An abandoned forest service road, a beautiful river, great views, and a mac & cheese lunch. Pretty perfect ride with Kid.
A spring ride on roads so wet one might exclaim "we're descending a river"
