Outdoor adventures, mostly gravel rides, but not always
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"
An HC gravel climb to Bon Jon Pass
Finished up back in Quilcene.
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 highlighted with…
Old logging roads have been repurposed into a hiking and mountain biking trail system
