Tag: Lynden
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Tour de Whatcom 2023
My wife had a Facebook memory pop up from my first Tour de Whatcom(TDW) century ride in 2015, making this my ninth ride around the county. We had the Covid year but I did my private “outlaw” version. Then I had the year where it overlapped oral surgery so I did the 40 mile route…
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Northeast County Loop – pimped out
Just last week I did what is my more normal Northeast County Loop, but as I am trying to get in some longer rides, I decided to pimp out my normal loop. So I pimped out the loop by adding in Ferndale, Lynden, going a little further north, ultimately bumping it from 40 to…
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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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Nooksack Loop – Again and Again
I’ve done this loop, my Nooksack Loop, again and again and again, each time refining it just a bit. And the refinements keep getting smaller and smaller as there really isn’t much in the way of new trails or roads happening along this route. It looks like the short section of railroad grade between Cornwall…
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Tour de Whatcom 2018
Tour de Whatcom 2018 (TDW) is in the books now and for me it will go down as maybe the most uneventful century of my life, It was sunny, but not to hot. The ride was windy from Everson to Birch Bay, but the headwind was not too strong. Traffic was almost completely devoid of…
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