Category: Rides
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Northeast County Loop
Shoulder on Smith was literally littered with glass, sadly saw this broken 12 pack’s twin outside Everson. I rode this loop last Saturday, July 6th, a couple of days after Independence Day, but before street sweepers could hit all the bad spots. This half rack of Corona bottles dumped on Smith Rd. wasn’t the only…
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Stumpjumper Day
Stumpjumper Day. I think that has a nice ring to it? Maybe it should always follow Independence Day, like Boxing Day follows Christmas. I spent the first Stumpjumper Day riding my early model Stumpjumper up the long grade to the Galbraith towers. It was a busy day on Galbraith, but most on the road were…
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Lake Samish Loop
I don’t know if I should call this ride a loop exactly, because the only part of it that is actually a loop is the part around the lake itself. So maybe this should be in a new classification of it’s own. I’ll call it an out and back loop where I ride out somewhere,…
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Another Nooksack Loop Ride
I’m pretty much wearing a rut into this route around this mostly north of Bellingham loop. This time riding from my house, rather than downtown Ferndale or somewhere else along the route, today’s ride was a somewhat longer ride at about 50 miles. I did the loop clockwise which for me had more of the…
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Where’s George?
You find a lot of interesting things when you hit the road early for a bike ride. Yesterday, as I chugged up the hill leading west out of Ferndale I got a good laugh about money littering the streets of Ferndale. Then as I stopped, just in case it was a $10 or a $20,…
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Rufus Trail
Last weekend I rode Rufus Trail, a trail that was suggested by a coworker as a really nice climbing trail in the Lookout Mountain area. The trail leads from the parking lot on Lake Louise Road, across from one of the Sudden Valley gates. It’s a lot that I’ve parked in several time, I just…
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