We rode the first section of the Olympic Adventure Trail a couple weeks ago and I blogged about it here. The other day we rode the next section from the little community of Joyce. Instead of an out and back we did a loop with a gravel road and some pavement. This was a fantastic …
Since we’re up in Port Angeles all summer we hope to be able to everything there is to do. On Trailforks App we saw the mutli-purpose Foothills Trails system that is close to town and checked them out. The Foothills Trails network is on Department of Natural Resources land and truly multi-purpose so you’ll need …
Deer Park is part of Olympic National Park and the road up is an adventure itself. It’s still closed to cars right now so Derek took the opportunity to ride to the top to check it out. I hiked the lower part. This road is a beast. It’s 8.5 miles up and 3820′ of climbing. …
Madison Creek Falls is located within Olympic National Park near the Elwha River, west of Port Angeles, Washington. A very short hike to a mossy maple and cedar lined grotto and bam, there is the 50 foot Madison Creek Falls. There is almost no hike to get to it and while I wouldn’t drive all the way out here …
On a cool overcast day we drove to Quilicene, Washington to ride the Lower Big Quilicene River Trail. You can do this as an out and back but to see more, we rode it as a loop. This had us climbing up a paved and then gravel road, and coming down the singletrack trail. After …
Dry Hill is a sweet trail network right in Port Angeles, Washington. These are all purpose built on Washington Department of Natural Resources land and VERY well done. With almost 60 miles of trail and more being added each year, it’s paradise. The trails are largely enduro oriented with very steep and technical sections on …
I’ve posted about our rides on the Olympic Discovery Trail before but this is different. This is the Olympic Adventure Trail. It is part of the Discovery Trail only this is all dirt. We started at the small trailhead off 112 just past the Elwha River and rode out and back to just short of …
This whole area up on the Olympic Peninsula is new to us. I was here as a little girl before but don’t remember anything and Derek has never been here. So, like much of our last 5 years on the road, everything is new and an adventure. We saw on the Trailforks app that there …
Tillamook State Forest trails are probably closer to the Forest Grove part of Portland than the actual town of Tillamook but we made the drive to check them out. The Tillamook State Forest is a 364,000-acre publicly owned forest managed by the Oregon Department of Forestry. The area was extensively burned in a series of forest fires between 1933 and …
The coast of Oregon has never been known for it’s mountain biking but there is some. Newport Trail Stewards, AKA NEWTS have been busy. We rode the Big Creek Trails one cool morning. The trails are located on city land, with the bike club building and maintaining the trails. The trails crisscross coastal forest habitat, …