• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

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Riding in the Portland area?

mnb

mnb

Husqvarna
Pro Class
So my niece lives in Wood Village and my sister lives in Vancouver, WA. My niece just had her first child, a girl, my gniece as I call her, which makes me a guncle. She was born the day after Valentine's Day, so is still young. But a few months from now, when the weather clears up some, she'll be ready for a visit.

I've got an '11 TE310. It's range is about 70 miles. I'll be hauling it in a Tacoma pickup. I'm a novice dirt rider, but not a newbie. I do singletrack, but nothing too challenging. I'm not at the point where I'm going over logs or doing stepups. I don't mind easy stuff, but since I'm bringing the Husky and not the F800GS, terrain best done under 30-40mph is preferred since that's where the TE310 shines. Take that in consideration with my skill level, of course. What I do at 20, some do at 40... I have a bad knee, so I don't stand on the pegs very often. That limits my speed some, although in smother, open areas, I can wick it up pretty good.

I'll probably be coming up I-5, but since I'm currently an unemployed bum, should I still be one, I might be able to detour on the way up and get in a day of riding at a more southern spot along the way. While I'm up there, I might be able to get up a little bit north of Vancouver for riding up there, but I really don't know what's available there.

Anyways, I'm looking for easy to not too intimidating stuff to ride while I'm up there. I don't have any idea of when this will happen date wise, I'm just gathering info for now, but when I do go, I'd love some company. If that doesn't happen, I don't mind too much, I've done most of my riding solo in the 30 years I've been riding street bikes since until a few years ago, I didn't have any friends with bikes (that ran reliably anyways).

If you have links to websites or maps, that's great, but even just mentions of areas and trail/road names would be a leg up over the amount of info I have now (virtually nothing).


Thanks!
 
Portland Area:

Tillamook State Forrest (Brown's Camp ((best marked, easiest trails)), Jordan Creek, Prison Camp, Diamond Mill, Keenig Creek - all different staging areas)
Hood River (several staging areas)
Ginger Creek ("")

Those are the big ones...

Lots of other riding around here, including tracks, and private land, but those should keep you enetertained... Depending on the time you come, factor weather in for sure...

Washington has some great areas to ride as well, but I don't know them very well..
 
To add to that...

Jones creek WA just outside Vancouver has an OK trail system with three one way loops. Pretty EZ but slick and chanlanging when wet out. Can be a zoo at times but once on the trail you see nearly no one. Lots of pit riders / beer drinkers at the stanging areas and no one on the trails.

Olympia WA has an area called Capitol forest. EZer riding and lots of quad stuff.

As mentioned above...

Browns camp is all quad width and EZer stuff. The further west you go the more single track and hard stuff. Jordon has some semi EZ stuff but Diamond Mill is mostly harder stuff and climbs.

maps available for most of it. Post up when it gets closer and we can point you in the right direction.
 
I don't know if this references helps re: my skills, but in the California SVRA parks, I'm doing all the greens and blues and the easier black diamonds. No double diamonds. From what I've heard, the National Forest System ratings are different and I'm probably at greens and blues for that. Hard to say without riding some of them, I haven't ridden any national forests yet. I do fairly well in technical stuff (but am definitely NOT a trials rider), it's mainly the really steep climbs and steep to really steep downhills (I hate downhills more, especially those without good traction) that I struggle with.

If it's slick out, I probably won't be out riding unfamiliar trails. But if it's nice and tacky... great niece? What great niece? ;)



Motosportz said:
Post up when it gets closer and we can point you in the right direction.
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Thanks, I'll definitely want to stop in and say hi when I finally get up there, since you're in the area.
 
when you get into town i can take you on some pretty cool ds stuff around the vancouver area some gravel roads .
,dirtd roads
single track and senic areas ect... give a shout out
 
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