This weekend was exhausting! On Saturday morning, Billy, Dave, and I met up in Canby to go on a bike ride. A 40 mile bike ride! The loop started in Canby, worked its way past Monitor, through Molalla, Mulino, and back to Canby with dusty farmland filling the spaces between the little towns. I won't deny that I was dead by the end of the ride... In fact, I was dead BEFORE the end of the ride! But it was worth it, to get out into the country and put down some serious miles thanks only to my manly muscles. Lots of fun, but I think the next ride I plan will be a bit shorter, something in the 20-30 mile range.
On Sunday morning, Michelle and Reese came over and we headed out to McIver Park. A bunch of us hung out there last weekend, and we decided then that we'd raft down the Clackamas River the following weekend. So, that's exactly what we did! We dropped a car off at Carver Park and put in up at McIver Park for what we thought would be a 4-5 hour trip. It turned out to be significantly longer, something more along the lines of 8 hours. We were ill prepared for such a long trip, so we drew straws to see which one of us we would eat... ok, not really, we just rationed off the meager supplies that we had. The trip was fun, but we were all ready for it to end a couple hours before it did. Here's a satellite map of the road between both parks. Zoom in a bit, and you see the section of river we rode, north of the marked road.
I’m seriously enjoying this awesome summer weather! Now if only my house would cool down at night, because I need good sleep after all this activity!
I did some more searching around tonight to try and find out how far our rafting trip was. According to wetdawg.com, the McIver Park to Barton Park leg was 8 miles, and the Barton Park to Carver Park leg was 5.5 miles. So, 13.5 miles total. It took us about 7.5 hours, so we went about 1.8 miles per hour.
Whoa, guy. You're a damn machine: first biking and 2nd rafting. All in one weekend. You should sign up for R2R in Wenatchee!
R2R: http://www.r2r.org/
Have you written a book yet? Your journals on nyc were pretty enticing.
Sounds like you are having a good summer.
Cheers!
ac
Damn we're brutal! I had no idea it was that far!
I just remembered that there's a bikeride thats about 16 miles from Boring to the Willamette River at Oaks Park.
It follows the old train tracks that have been removed and now has a gravel path the whole way.
It's not a bad ride. It's really fun to take your bike down that last bit of sandy beach and ride it into the water, hit the front brakes and fly into the water on a 90 degree day.
Yes, it's called the Springwater Corridor, though most of it is paved, not gravel. It's the path I ride to work on.