Given the offchance of boring @northbend, I hereby submit a North Bend, WA ride.

Late afternoon ride. Couldn’t have been nicer. The big forest, the smooth road, the streaming river, the lack of cagers, the easy pedaling…


Angler rules on smaller sign at left

The road today = not much sharing required.

The blue sky

Mountains everywhere


The almost empty parking at the major wilderness trailhead intersections.

Clear water

Big trees

Rock cliffs roadside


Hiking trailheads everywhere. Rode a familiar bike - but trying to get used to the road noise of riding 33mm @ 65 psi.
Though I could have used wider when the pea gravel became rocky and walnut sized gravel used in the many washout prone sections.