More recovery? For Pete's sake!

My mother often uses the phrase "for Pete's sake", used in situations where some might say "well I be darned".

I'm not sure who Pete is but I want to know why he's so important that a hill was named after him.

On my last ride I joined Paul for about 3000 ft of climbing in a 33 mile route. Paul was a bit under the weather so it was a "recovery ride". If that was true, today was yet more recovery!

Social bike group buddy Carol and I rode from Wilsonville this afternoon. The weather was just gorgeous. We pedaled through the rollers on Advance Rd out towards the Canby Ferry but before reaching the ferry we turned on Hoffman road and out to Pete's Mountain Rd. We made our way over Pete's Mountain to Willamette and then over to Oregon City and across the Willamette River on the Oregon City bridge. As we pedaled south from Oregon City we got on a paved road that was closed to vehicles. From the moss growing on the asphalt it appears it's been closed for some time. Most of the road was reasonable, however we came to an area that slid away. Undoubtedly the reason the road was closed.




This "road" climbed up the hill and topped out back on residential streets, this time with a pretty good view.




From there we took residential streets over to South End Rd and on out to New Era. We made the turn to Canby and navigated to the Canby Ferry, back through the rollers on Advance Rd and closed the loop with 32 miles with 3827 ft of climbing. That's a lot of climbing for 32 miles. No wonder Carol felt tired!

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............BIKE............LIFECYCLE.........TOTAL
Today.......32................0.................32
Jan........618...............0................618
Feb........407...............0................407
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TOTAL.....1025...............0...............1025