A nice evening for a bike ride!

I was to lead a ride for my social bike group tonight billed as an "after work ride". It was supposed to start at 6:30PM but by 7 still nobody there but me. Not being one to shy away from solo riding I shoved off for the hills. I rode Dick Rd to Valley Vista to Old Cornelius Pass to Rock Creek to Elliot to Skyline then down Johnson to Logie Trail to Helvetia. By the time I finished riding around the side streets of the neighborhood I had logged 37 miles.......with 3300 ft of climbing........and rolled over 1000 miles for the month!

There is something really good about July in Oregon. Long daylight hours coupled with nice weather and scenery make riding a joy.

Here's a tall trestle for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe line over Dick road. Being from a long line of local Oregon natives stretching back more than 100 years I knew Matilda Dick, and her son Oliver. Both now deceased but their name lives on as a name on a road that passes their farmstead.


Though only a few short miles from bustling suburbia the urban growth boundary has so far saved this area from urban sprawl. How long it can be preserved is a good question that we all need to answer.
(an older time remembered along Dick Rd)

(along Phillips Rd)
(Rock Creek Tavern at the intersection of Old Cornelius Pass Rd and Phillips Rd)

(a view as I begin climbing Rock Creek Rd)

(a view across the Columbia River of Mt Saint Helens from Skyline Rd)

(a late day view from the descent of Logie Trail)

It's a nice route that I don't seem to have time to ride often enough.


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...............Road Bike.....LifeCycle.....Total Miles
Today............37...............0.................37
Jan total.......501.....+.........30.......=.......531
Feb total.......614.....+.........0........=.......614
March total.....860.....+.........0........=.......860
April total.....790.....+.........0........=.......790
May total.......901.....+.........0........=.......901
June total......543.....+.........0........=.......543
July total.....1000.....+.........0........=......1000
Year to date...5270.....+.........30.......=......5300
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