Joined: 15 Aug 2006Posts: 2666Location: No Fun Town, USA
When I'm bored, this is the kind of thing I think about:
How far have you biked east, west, north and south from Seattle? When you measure one direction, pay no attention to the other directions. So Butte, Montana, is roughly as 'east' as Phoenix, Arizona, although obviously the latter is a longer ride.
Two categories: round trips where you biked both from and back to Seattle, and trips where you just biked it in one direction (either to or from Seattle). Ferries are allowed; other forms of help are not. You don't have to have done it all in one day, as long as you biked the whole trip.
My answers:
Round trip:
North: Deception Pass
South: Puyallup
East: Fall City
West: The westernmost point of Highway 20, near Coupeville
One way:
North: Deception Pass
South: Portland (STP)
East: Fall City
West: somewhere west of Chehalis, on the STP route
Obviously, your results may be more impressive than mine. My next question is: how easy would it be to extend any of your eight?
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henry
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 4:09 pm
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North: Guemes Island
East: Middle Fork
South: Portland
West: Wherever the fuck we went for that one ben country out there by skokomish.
I've come pretty close to covering the state, I need to ride farther north I guess.
North: SR20 near Ross Lake
West: 101 south of Raymond
South: Northwest Portland (same trip as east)
East: Idaho Border near Newport
The east one might be illegal, I'm using a technicality. In 1998 I biked from Seattle to Winthrop. In 2003 or 2004 I biked from Winthrop to Bead Lake (near Newport, ID). I covered all of the miles on bicycle tires, but not on the same bike or in the same year.
The west and south one used the ferry technicality.
I haven't ridden in SE WA at all. NE WA is probably the most interesting riding that I haven't done much of either.
None were round trips. The 1998 one (SR20, SR97, Iron Horse Trail) was supposed to be, but I f'd up my ankle and got a ride from near Easton.
MikeOD
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:12 pm
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One way from Seattle:
West - Tofino, B.C.
North - Kelowna, B.C.
East - Salida, CO
South - Puerto Palomas, Mexico
Round trip bounds are San Juans, Wallace Falls and Ben Country trips.
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:33 pm
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Paging Remington. And Brandon.
gsbarnes
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 8:50 am
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Was it Matt Carpenter who rode into Central America?
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jimmythefly
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 9:51 am
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This motivates me to ride more.
North 1-way: Vancouver
South 1-way: Portland
East 1-way: Suiattle (barely beating Snoqualmie Pass)
West round trip: Allyn
Why have I not ridden over to Hurricane Ridge? Might have to add that as a one-nighter sometime this summer.
There's definitely a point or trip type where I switch from riding from Seattle to driving, then riding.
lantius
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:08 am
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we need some daniel featherhead up in there. he'd have tijuana for the south and halifax, nova scotia for the east.
gsbarnes
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:20 am
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Someone needs to exploit the ferry loophole and go to Juneau.
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lantius
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:21 am
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gsbarnes wrote:
Someone needs to exploit the ferry loophole and go to Juneau.
come, passepartout, let us circumnavigate the world in a hijacked washington state ferry.
gsbarnes
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 11:54 am
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Is the Kalakala still seaworthy? I bet you could get that thing pretty cheap.
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limpyweta
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:25 pm
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I like this thread.
North: Belcarra Park, BC, almost round trip if I didn't get a ride from Tsawwassen back to Bellingham
South: Tumwater, also round trip
West: getting lost on some logging road almost to Lake Ozette
East: last Ben Country, also round trip
Mike, did you go to Meares Island? That's awshm anyways.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:36 pm
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My North American bounding box is not particular exciting.
North + West: Victoria BC
South: Renton (INORITE?)
East: Ben Country VI
Someone needs to exploit the ferry loophole and go to Juneau.
come, passepartout, let us circumnavigate the world in a hijacked washington state ferry.
so far's i know the klickitat is still out of commission over in PT. she's cute, small, mostly seaworthy and not heavily guarded.
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kalen
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 9:37 am
Joined: 10 Apr 2007Posts: 342Location: Olympia, on the farm
Roundtrip:
North: Powell River, BC
South: Puyallup, WA
East: Roslyn, WA
West: Comox, BC
One-Way:
North: Powell River, BC
South: Santa Barbara, CA
East: Roslyn, WA
West: Cape Blanco, OR
langston
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:26 pm
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
North: Arlington, WA : one-way
South: Astoria, OR : one-way
West: Ruby Beach, WA : Round-trip
East: Middle Fork River, WA : round-trip, Ben Country
I've covered much of the state, but trend towards one-way trips utilizing the train. Once SE Wa cools off but before snow comes, I'm game for a PDX-> Walla Walla trip through the Gorge. Lewis & Clark Trail on Adventure Cycling.
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:28 pm
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North: Middle of Whidbey Island
South: Astoria OR
East: Middlefork river
West: Olympics
MyNameIsJeff
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:01 am
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Mine's not so impressive.
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dashap
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:34 am
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What's the bounding box for Thursday night rides?
(Not including Joeball Mountain), mine is, I think:
North: Carkeek Park
South: Seahurst Park in Burien
West: Lincoln Park
East: Lake Sammamish St. Park
Drain
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:59 am
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I wasn't going to post mine, but Jeff's didn't span a whole continent either so I felt comfortable putting it up.
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lantius
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:35 pm
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have we really not done a ride further north than 195th?
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South: Renton
East: Spokane (one-way)
West: NAS Widbey (right next to it)
North:Anacortes
W&N were on a loop ride starting at Mukilteo, riding north to cross onto Whidbey at Deception Pass, and then riding south back to Clinton to take the ferry back to Mukilteo. Did that back in '09.
Spokane was a one-way ride, when I did RedSpoke in '08. South? Strangely, I've never done STP, and all the buddies I used to ride with before I met you folks lived up north. However, one of 'em has now moved down to SR 167, so it's likely I'll be pushing southward more this year.
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gsbarnes
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:40 pm
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lantius wrote:
thursday night ride bounding box:
have we really not done a ride further north than 195th?
Well, I went up to Kingston/Edmonds on that Poulsbo ride, but that's just how I roll. (Too far north).
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dashap
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 4:39 pm
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lantius wrote:
thursday night ride bounding box:
have we really not done a ride further north than 195th?
I'm told you guys once rode to the Bothell Alehouse, but that might have been a Tuesday? I keep hoping that someday when I have to stay late at school on a Thursday, the ride can come fetch me there.
daniel featherhead
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:28 am
Joined: 16 Sep 2005Posts: 69Location: queen anne
I really recommend the NE corner of the state. It's the best part. Has anybody circumnavigated yet? I'd love to hear tips about foreign travel.
East - Halifax, NS
S - Tijuana, MX
SW - Key West, FL
N - Vancouver
Loop - seattle, hwy 20, omak, nespelem, lind, starbuck, walla walla, white pass, long view, north cove, aberdeen, matlock, bremerton, seattle. (November 2008)
bott
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 12:20 pm
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sandbagger.
lantius
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:12 pm
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oh actually, looks like ya'll cheated and took the light rail. not allowed by greg's rules! so kent art pit it is.
and here's the box:
not bad for a dumb little bike club. if you count joeball mountain as a thursday ride and not a supernumerary, you can eke out a little bit more west by including that.
derrickito
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:21 pm
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we did take several thursday night rides to joeball in the years past. include!
ksep
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:31 pm
Joined: 27 Jan 2007Posts: 1879Location: Westlake
lantius wrote:
oh actually, looks like ya'll cheated and took the light rail. not allowed by greg's rules! so kent art pit it is.
Everyone rode all the way south (awesome route, H/T joeball) and some people rode all the way back.
You would have light railed back from the artpit if it had existed at the time, don't judge.
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Chip McShoulder
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:44 pm
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ksep wrote:
lantius wrote:
oh actually, looks like ya'll cheated and took the light rail. not allowed by greg's rules! so kent art pit it is.
Everyone rode all the way south (awesome route, H/T joeball) and some people rode all the way back.
You would have light railed back from the artpit if it had existed at the time, don't judge.
Yeah, those of us who rode home detoured at some bar where Chase almost got in a fight with some guy after taking a picture of his car parked in a handicapped spot. It ended with the police being called. Memories!
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