Scoping out a route

With the rainy season coming soon, I decided I needed to find a route close to home that could be safely biked in the dark rainy days ahead. I've frittered away the nice weather, and now will have to ride in the rain and cold..........because.

I started off with a dual purpose, to reconnoiter a route, and to accept a challenge laid out by a friend who challenged us all to post fall colors (being tired of all the political banter).

Within a mile I had my first subjects.

The trees continued the show as I continued through town.

The photo stops were taking some of my time, and this was supposed to be training (sort of) so I pedaled for a bit.  I was on the fixed gear, and my 23 mile route had 940 ft of climbing.  Not a lot by any standards, but enough to be quite noticeable on out of shape legs and a fixed gear bike.

 As I got a little farther down the route I found some more trees worth snapping a photo of, fortuitous in that I needed a bit of a breather!

The blue sky was giving way to a high cloud cover, in advance of some stormy weather predicted over the next few days. The trees didn't get the boost from the sun's illumination, but still didn't look too bad.

I continued on around my loop, pushing pretty hard at times.  I finished up by 4PM.  I'll tweak the route a bit to avoid the crossing traffic in Wilsonville, but the rest of the route will do nicely.

.........Road Bike.....Rollers.............MTB..........Lifecycle......Total
Today ..........23................0..................0.......................0............23
Jan...............0................0...................0.......................0............0
Feb..........124...............0...................0.......................0...........124
March......277................0..................0........................0..........277
April......559................0..................0........................0..........559
May.........414...............0..................0.......................0...........414
June........337...............0..................0.......................0...........337
July........310...............0..................0.......................0...........310
August.......40.............0....................0......................0............40
Sept..........100..............0...................83......................0...........100
Oct.............29...............0....................0......................0............29
YTD...... 2227.............0...................83.......................0..........2300