Epic Eastern Cascade ride (pix)

WOW. Just got back from what rates as a top 2-3 ride trip for me. We rode epic high eastern cascade range stuff and it was awesome. One area I ahd been to before and wanted to show some ride buddies. Blake and Brandon from this site came and with my bike meant 3 165cc huskys with Lectron carbs. Other buddy Ken was on a KTM 350. Zero flats or machanicals. No wrecks that caused issues. Just freaking FUN. this area delivers the goods. 4000 foot 10 miles climbs to ridge tops, gnarly rocky switchbacks, smooth clean switchbacks, up, down, up, down. Bet we did 300 plus switchbacks EZ. Over one epic pass tot he next HUGE valley. Was amazing. Great people, great bikes, great area. All that was missing was a few key freinds that could not make it. I will be back for sure. Epic I tell ya.

Day one,

find our most excellent cabin for the night



Go swimming and hang out and wait for Brandon and Blake to roll in at 2am!!!



Ironically the place we stayed at was called Kelly's



Ken said do the dolphin so I did...



I woke up on the deck overlooking the lake from our cabin, just does not get a lot better than that

I did not take as bunch of pix but Blake, Brandon and Ken did as well as mucho vid so will link and post them as they come availible.

Day one starts with a 4000 foot climb 10 miles long and wonderful







This leads up to the top and the ridge trail. We are at 6400 feet after climbing 4000 feet. Look at the map and see a 7400 mountain to ride up. We do that and it is probably the single funnest 40 plus switchbacks i have ever done. Hiker quality trails and perfect layout. I was literally laughing out loud as I rode it in disbelief.

then we come back down and shit starts to get serious :>) Wish I had more pix of the next section, was an amazing trail that drops into this huge granite shale switchback valley, around tot he right, than 30 switchbacks back to the top and almost to the start of the trail again but 300 feet up a cliff we started on but the other side of it. Amazing.



Blake diggin it



Trail can be seen in the middle of this pic



I'll ride this area again for sure.

So we have a VERY good first day and set off for the next area. It is the ridge behind me in the dolphin picture but takes about an hour to get to as it is on the other side of the HUGE lake. I have ridden this area once before and why I am back in this area looking for more. This area is rocky and technical in a lot of places and flowing and freaking amazing in other places. All three ride areas we did were crazy varied, some of everything from deep woods to exposed cliffs. Endless rocks to groomed hiker trail, it has it all.

Lets do this











Note trail in the middle of those rocks, this is a long rocky decent or climb.







Yeah, this rules



another awesome day

Day three was my in my master plan as an EZer short rip on the way home. Boy did it deliver. I have never seen so much perfectly groomed single track in my life. One trail was 17 miles of perfectly groomed flowing single track nirvana. Was a perfect end it a great ride trip.

Blake and I



this is a good one. Brandon was leading, he stopped at an intersection, Blake thought it would be fun to come in hot and slide to a stop, it got away from him. I rounded the corner to see a dust cloud and blake on the ground so I did the same and purposely tossed my bike into a wild slide and crash, Ken rounds the corner to see it and joins in. (note skid marks) This is what choosing the right friends is all about



more coming

Some random pix from the weeknd

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What? My Save-3 etc? just saving spots for day 3 and other stuff.

:-) Yea, that ! And good idea to keep the stages of the story together.

Love it!!

That was fun. Missing it already.

vid only goes to 2:32 for me.