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We spent almost 9 hours in the saddle today, so don’t expect much of a blog. I’m beat. Besides there wasn’t much to see or photograph except for trees; we were in a National Forest the entire day.
We didn’t need the Garmin navigation system today. The instructions were:
- Turn right out of the hotel
- At mile 16.1 turn left onto131
- At mile 80, turn right at the Lone Fir Resort.
Today’s 80 mile ride we did climb 4,800 feet according to my GPS (Brenda’s registered 5,135). 3,700 of this climbing was between miles 17 and 40. Note there is no route sheet; I’m having difficulty up-loading it.
We did get another glimpse of Mt Rainier today.
So this is a good time to talk about a bike ride around the mountain, RAMROD. Ride Around MT Rainier in One Day is a 150 mile bike ride with 10,000 feet of climbing.
Our Seattle friend Bud Hunt is the grand-daddy of RAMROD. I’m not sure if is due to the number of times he ridden it – or maybe his age – but Bud get’s free admission and Bib #1 every year.
Today we began to see another famous Washington mountain, Mt Saint Helena. The last eruption of this mountain was in 1980. The east lateral searing blast came over the green ridge behind us and nearly to where we are standing.
Miles today = 80, Elevation gain = 4,800. Total miles = 171, Tot Elevation gain = 8,473
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