Love your blog pics. Found them through the Riv blog. I have toured on forest service roads around Mt. Hood through Cascade Huts. You might think about heading south starting in Mosier. Go up Huskey Road to Surveyor's Ridge Road, then Brooks Meadows Road. You hit gravel about 5 miles out of Mosier. VERY low traffic and great views. This is some really great backroad and forest road riding. If you are a person who always needs to know where they are and are not good at wayfinding, you'll want to drop back to 35 via Brooks Meadows Road. On the other hand, if you get the Hood River Ranger District and maybe the Barlow Ranger District maps from the forest service, you can plot a course on forest roads pretty far south and meet up with 26. Who knows, maybe your'll find your way on forest roads further than that.
You will have to purify water after you leave Mosier, until you get back onto 35 or 26 or wherever you join up with civilization. You can find some horse camps and campgrounds if you take the time, but plan on purifying your water as you go. There are no food options anywhere except on the highways, so stock up in Mosier. Mt. Hood Ranger District Maps http://www.nationalforeststore.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=NFS&Category_Code=R6RD Can't wait for the photos! Nick On Sunday, June 24, 2012 4:55:31 PM UTC-7, bicyc...@gmail.com wrote: > > Finished a contract, and it's time to leave town. Why not for a few weeks? > > I've thrown together the following very rough route, passing through all > the parks mentioned above and otherwise... If you have any recommendations > or blogs/reports that give good routes around this area, might you pass > them on to me? > > If you live near some of these places, and would like to join, please let > me know. I'm hoping for 60-100 mile days, and I like to stop and smell the > proverbial roses. > > Thanks! > > ~erik > -- > oakland, ca > bikenoir.blogspot.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/a-rjBDPHS4wJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
