~82 miles/3300ft (Day 3 of our 5 day trip from Seattle to Portland via Yakima.) I thought the first two days were hard enough but at the end of Day 2, Mako and I both guessed that Day 3 might be the hardest for a few reasons. Bring enough water and food: I think Day…
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~92 miles/751ft (Day 2 of our 5 day trip from Seattle to Portland via Yakima). (Very few photos from Day 2 as we didn’t have much time to stop.) We initially planned to stay at the last primitive camping site on Iron Horse Trail before Easton but I was too slow on Day 1, so…
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~70 miles/4700ft (Day 1 of the 5 day trip from Seattle to Portland via Yakima.) I was too excited about our adventure and got only about three hours of sleep the night before! We got up around 6AM and headed to Mercer Island for breakfast with Mako’s parents. On the way over, we were passed…
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~96 miles/3172ft climb. After building our touring bikes at the Wright Brothers Cycle in late June, we test-rode them from Seattle to Anacortes via Interurban and Centennial trails. Our bikes did fine. I was out of shape, so it was a slow ride. We left at 7AM and arrived in Anacortes at 4:30PM. We brought…
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~50miles/~1400ft climb. We went on a bike ride from Mt. Vernon to Everett, WA in early April. We took Amtrak from Seattle to Mt. Vernon, biked to the tulip festival, and biked back to Everett via Centennial Trail. It was mostly great, except for biking from Marysville into Everett. That part requires you to cross…
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