Biking
The Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes
Formerly an old mining railway, the Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes makes for leisurely, scenic biking. So leisurely, in fact, that while on the trail itself I actually biked without a helmet! Try that on the Burke-Gilman, let alone city streets!
The one catch is that the the ground underneath and around the trail is, uhm, heavily polluted with the heavy [...]
Portland to Astoria Century
This weekend a friend invited us to ride a century from Portland to Astoria with a bunch of his pals. It was a fun ride through largely new-to-me territory. Not terribly hard, though tiring in that way that centuries tend to be. We had frequent stops to re-group, a sag wagon that refilled our waters, and rides back to [...]
Marysville-Bellingham bike loop
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While it’s fun to do a bona fide self-supported bike tour, sometimes it’s just awesome to do credit card touring: you bike long and hard, stud that you are, and then relax in a luxurious bath before heading out to a posh restaurant and falling asleep on fluffly pillows.
OK, this weekend’s bike tour from Marysville to [...]
Whidbey Island Tour
We made this a long weekend and biked up to Whidbey Island, where we spent two nights reading, napping, and playing video games. The ride up was approximately 50 miles, as we followed the Inter-Urban bike trail to the ferry. The Inter-Urban is very nice biking (though not too scenic) where it exists; unfortunately, it [...]
STP 2009
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This weekend, Knox and I rode the Seattle to Portland Classic. Doing it at least once is de rigeur if you call yourself a biker in the Northwest. In fact, it was the one big ride I wanted to do this year; all the other ones we just added in our cabin-fever enthusiasm this past winter.
I enjoyed the [...]
