more hills!

I joined Joe and Beth from my social bike group today on a ride from Troutdale to Larch Mountain. The weather was absolutely gorgeous with a beautiful blue sky and a high in the low 60's. There was a 20-25 mph east wind, but we were sheltered enough to not have it be much of a bother. Our route was an out and back with most of the elevation gain coming on the "out".

Our intended route:
(route mapped as an "out" only, we obviously came "back" also so the distance and elevation aren't shown correctly on this map)

The snow gate was still closed though we suspected that with the mild winter there was no snow. It did cut our trip short today by 6 miles total.
I've seen Multnomah County Sheriff Officers sitting at the gate "conferring" with cyclists as they'd come back down the hill behind the "closed to wheeled vehicles" sign. All three of us, being law abiding cyclists, stayed on the open side of the gate and saved the ride to the top for another day.

The return trip was fast, downhill AND a tailwind are SO much fun! ;-)

I ended up with 42 miles and 4844 ft of accumulated elevation.

............BIKE............LIFECYCLE.........TOTAL
Today.......42................0.................42
Jan........618...............0................618
Feb........449...............0................449
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TOTAL.....1067...............0...............1067