The final descent into Riverfront Park in The Dalles.
(Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland)
After seven days, 489 miles, and 35,000 feet of climbing, my Cycle Oregon 2014 experience concluded in The Dalles on Saturday.
Cycle Oregon 2014
The 27th annual Cycle Oregon Week Ride has a mountainous theme. Riders explore the “Magnificent Seven” peaks of the Cascade range including Mts. Hood, Adams, Jefferson, Washingon and the Three Sisters.
Cycle Oregon Day 6: Madras to Tygh Valley
Riding outside of Maupin alongside the roaring Deschutes River.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
Cycle Oregon Day 5: Madras to Smith Rock State Park
Crooked River canyon just south of Lake Billy Chinook.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
Cycle Oregon Day 4: Tygh Valley to Madras
After conquering the hardest climb in Cycle Oregon history, riders fell deeply in love with a water crew member assigned to spray us at the top.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
Cycle Oregon Day 3 – Dufur to Tygh Valley
Mt. Hood was the star of today’s show.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
Cycle Oregon Day 2 – Glenwood to Dufur
Sunrise on Mt. Adams, as seen from the door of my tent pitched on the football field of Glenwood High School.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
Cycle Oregon Day 1 – The Dalles to Glenwood
Leaving The Dalles at sunrise.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
Mt. Adams was never too far from view today
The Dalles welcomes Cycle Oregon on eve of week-long ride
“The Floozies” — The Dalles official greeters.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
Going east (again) for Cycle Oregon
This year’s ride poster.
Something about eastern Oregon keeps calling me back.
In the past six months I’ve made three trips east of the Cascades and tomorrow I’ll shove off for yet another one: the Cycle Oregon Week Ride.
The first two trips I took to the place known as “Oregon’s dry side” were for work: a reporting/riding excursion in The Dalles in March and a trip to Treo Bike Ranch in July. Through my bike adventures and people I met along the way, I’ve learned that the towns and roads in this region have so much to offer I wanted to share them with my family. So, over the long long Labor Day weekend I packed up our mini-van and took my wife Juli and three kids on a camping/road trip. We drove out to the Gorge, stopped in The Dalles, then went south into Heppner, the John Day River Valley, and then looped back up through Fossil, Maupin, Dufur, and then back to the Gorge. It was fantastic.