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Took the day off and headed up to st helens. I haven't been up there since last summer. I planned on taking a nice easy day since I just got back from doing 2,000 miles down to Laguna and just felt like a nice steady cruise. Rides never turn out how you think though :? I was scouting out some new places to camp so I did a few new forest service roads which was cool. Got gas at the last stop before heading up the mt. and a guy on the new v-rod sport bike thingy tucked in behind me. :shock: I was keeping the pace in the 70mph range and just chillin riding "the pace" and the guy was doing a pretty good job of keeping up. sure enough gets a bit tighter and all of a sudden he is gone from my mirror.
whip a U'e and sure enough he's crawling out from under his bike. At least he picked the only place in 80 miles that didn't have a cliff or trees. He went off in a perfect spot with just some dirt and grass. He was ok his bike a bit dinged up but rideable. after helping him I was back on my way, not about an hour behind schedule.
because I was behind I had to take some freeway home and left the speed limit to slight interpertation. This time I tucked in behind a guy on a custom choper/harely like thing that was wearing loafers and a t-shirt. he had the thing loaded down like he was on a long trip. I think the guy was a Las Vages extreme guy on vacation cause I could barley keep up through traffic.
about 300 miles, got home late causing my wife to be late for work......
cool forest service rd that had a canopy of trees
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looking down on Yale lake a resivor south of st helens
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windy ridge going up st helens. Its hard to really show the crazyness of this rd. it looks like the moon with small bushes after the 1980 blast. Since there are no trees in your way you can see through most corners and also see the huuuuge drop off. Makes it kinda scary to ride. the road is litteraly carved out of the side of the mt.
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st helnes. if you look closely you can see right in the center the old perfect cone shaped lava dome. to it's left is the new dome that is growing the size of a hose every minute for the past few months. if you look close also you can see it steaming.
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mt rainier
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whip a U'e and sure enough he's crawling out from under his bike. At least he picked the only place in 80 miles that didn't have a cliff or trees. He went off in a perfect spot with just some dirt and grass. He was ok his bike a bit dinged up but rideable. after helping him I was back on my way, not about an hour behind schedule.
because I was behind I had to take some freeway home and left the speed limit to slight interpertation. This time I tucked in behind a guy on a custom choper/harely like thing that was wearing loafers and a t-shirt. he had the thing loaded down like he was on a long trip. I think the guy was a Las Vages extreme guy on vacation cause I could barley keep up through traffic.
about 300 miles, got home late causing my wife to be late for work......
cool forest service rd that had a canopy of trees
looking down on Yale lake a resivor south of st helens
windy ridge going up st helens. Its hard to really show the crazyness of this rd. it looks like the moon with small bushes after the 1980 blast. Since there are no trees in your way you can see through most corners and also see the huuuuge drop off. Makes it kinda scary to ride. the road is litteraly carved out of the side of the mt.
st helnes. if you look closely you can see right in the center the old perfect cone shaped lava dome. to it's left is the new dome that is growing the size of a hose every minute for the past few months. if you look close also you can see it steaming.
mt rainier
