Spokane to Everett: Day 3

Done. 80 miles today. Marblemount to Everett. Mostly unremarkable. Full report to follow.

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Spokane to Everett: Day 2

I slept like a dead man last night. I was on the road at 5:30 this morning. I started by finishing the 5 miles or so of the climb up Loup Loup pass. That's a small pass that packs a punch: about 10 miles straight up on both sides.

That first five miles provided a good taste of the day to come. I spent most of the day climbing. I crested three passes. And I learned that my GPS does actually compute altitude accurately.

The one element that really helped today was the water falls along the climb. I immeresed fully 3 times. It was glorious.

All up: 120 miles. 11.5 hours on the bike. I've got about 80 miles to go tomorrow.

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Spokane to Everett: Day 1

I wanted to make it to Winthrop. I fell short by about 20 miles. I rode about 175 miles today. That's 14.5 hours in the saddle. I'm damn tired.

I ended up at Sweat Creek Campground. It's "primitive." And no one is here. Which is both kind of nice, and kind of creepy.

The last three hours has been solid climbing. The big stuff is tomorrow: Washington and Rainy passes.

Time for bed.

My 37th Bday

More front load love

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Two Things

#1 Racks

I took this picture yesterday at about 5:45 PM at Huckleberry's on 10th Ave. The guy standing there is gaurding three bikes. There's another 3 in the rack and there was a guy with a X-check pulling a BOB trailer that's outside the picture.

Huckleberries is a ready for another rack.

About a month ago I posted about how the DSP are working to get a bunch of my favorite racks into downtown. Well, they're going to put the order in for a load of racks. If you want one, or if you want your favorite business to get one, then you'll need to pre-pay $260 before the order goes in next week. Interested? Contact Andrew at DSP (ARolwes at downtownspokane dot net).

#2 Sale'n

For those of you slackers that don't have jobs or that don't have to work on Fridays, go hang out with Jacque for an easy ride around the south hill. He's garage sale'n. This will test out your load-carrying-capacity for your city bike. Meet at The Scoop at 9am this Friday morn if you're interested.

Riding to School

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