I've seen those bike locks on fleabay , but being used by PD is just TOO funny!

Crater Lake from the air. It’s in the Cycle Oregon route this year. 👍

CO is back?

We did Crater Lake during CO in 2007 and 2012. Circling Rim Road aged me.

Well … sort of. The equivalent for 2025 is only 5 days, but Crater Lake is part of it.

https://cycleoregon.com/ride/rally/

CO II was my very first bike tour. I took to it like a retriever to tennis balls. CO II’s route was amazing too. Portland-Sandy-Kaneeta-Bend-LaPine(?) over Crater Lake to Klamath Falls, ending in Ashland. What a ride!

I did CO II, III, IX, and X.

I did my first of 4 in 2002. We rode from the ID border all the way to the coast at Florence in 6 days, with a day off in Sisters before crossing McKenzie Pass. (There was an optional out and back ride that day, which I did not do.) I did the long route on Day 3, which was 117 miles. The day to Sisters was 100 miles for everyone. I ended up averaging 91 miles/day for the entire ride. It was brutal, but so much fun. They never did that route again. It was interesting to see how crabby people had gotten during the last 2 days. People were really tired.



Climbing on Day 2 in 2002.

Crater Lake in 2012.

Mt Shasta, Ca

After watching mt St Helen's go up, Crater lake must have been a humungous explosion.

My father would be 99 years old today...

Pt Pinole, CA.

From the dog walks human walk today. And yes, it’s chilly here.

Blustery, but beautiful today. Finally got some rain.

National tunnel on the Montour trail

bottom section / doors closed during winter months to eliminate / reduce ice forming on inside of tunnel

Yummy bar tape


Didn’t know bar tape could taste so good.

The full view of the perp

Life behind bars

From Seattle looking to Bellevue

Tollgate Farm and Mt Si

The Sierra was beautiful last Saturday. These were taken from Lone Pine, California.

I was looking for that lone pine...that all burnt hillside?

Nah. That’s the Alabama Hills … orangish sandstone hills between US395 and the Sierra. Here a pix (not mine) of one of the formations … the Mobius Arch.

Hello from North Bend, Wa.
Last ride photo of the winter of 2025.
by Matthew Pendergast, on Flickr

Dayum!

Welcome to Rattlesnake Lake. Do you go up the SVT, or climb Uplands Dr from North Bend? Not being a gravel rider, I take Uplands, which is always challenging. I need to get back to Uplands again since it is one of my hill training climbs.

To answer your question, Yes

I've been a resident in the Valley for almost 40 years.
Riding mostly vintage road and touring bikes.
Varied surfaces don't trouble me.



My neighborhood borders the Snoqualmie Valley Trail so I use it a lot.
It's the gateway over the mountains to Eastern Washington on my right, and If I turn left,
the Lower Snoqualmie Valley where as you know are many nice rural roads North and West into the Puget Sound Basin.

As for the approach to Rattlesnake Lake;
Sometimes I ride up via the Uppety-Lands, sometimes not.
Sometimes as an out n back but most times as a loop.

The preferred way is up on the trail and returning via a screaming downhill thru the Uppety-Lands.
It simply flows better that way, and the speed you can carry thru the roundabout and under I90 into North Bend is much safer in that busy little section of stores and gas stations.

The Uppety-Lands does make for good hill training!
A false flat paralleling I90 followed by a steep ramp into the development itself then eases off somewhat giving you a chance to catch your breath before you reach that 90 degree turn and the wall that is your final test.
If you're unfamiliar with it, it can be heartbreaking. I love climbs that test your mental and emotional resilience in addition to your legs.

Am very familiar with what you are talking about. Have ridden the SVT route up to Rattlesnake a half dozen times and last year continued up through the tunnel at the pass. Uppety is a good word for those roads until you get up to Brewster Lake. The first time I rode up Uppity, there was an older gentleman running down and he said, “You are taking the hard way up.” And I thought to myself before knowing about your local branch of the SVT, taking Cedar Falls up would be suicidal Have ridden down Cedar Falls Road twice and think that will be it. I take it you live in the Wilderness Rim area. I live down in False City about 100 yards off the SVT, up from the airport.

I down the hill, closer to town in the Cedar Village neighborhood. We are almost neighbors!

The Globe Willows are the first trees to green up around here.


Second day of spring