Michael Wolfe is an unabashed bike nut. About the only thing that gets him more excited than riding, is discovering and sharing new bike routes with others.
Last winter, he showed me a whole new perspective on the Sandy River when I joined him for my first-ever recumbent ride. Then, back in February I shared some of his favorite ways to escape the city by bike.
I like the way Michael thinks about routes because, like myself, he prefers to ride from the city (this guy is no car-topper) and he loves going long.
Last night I got word that he has just published on a new blog called The Long Haul where he’ll centralize his vast knowledge of great places to ride. So far, he’s posted three detailed accounts of some fantastic long rides. They all leave from central Portland and include detailed notes, links to photos, a Google Map, and a link to the route using the ever-helpful Gmap Pedometer tool.
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Michael plans to keep adding routes,
“The goal is to build up a sort of reference for ambitious day riders or potential multi-day touring riders about what roads are bikeable, what some good routes to combine might be, etc.”
If you’re the adventurous type with a love of the open road, this is definitely a site worth bookmarking.