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Canyons Ride 2003 – Day 1: We’re On Holiday!
Friday, May 23 Seattle to Boise Scott, Trev, Joe & Vince 547 miles What a superb way to start the day and the trip - breakfast at a real diner out in the countryside. Twede's is located in North Bend, WA, a town at the edge of the western foothills of the Cascade Mountains. (Click …
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Canyons Ride 2003 – Day 2: The Hat
Saturday, May 24 Boise, OR to Spanish Fork, UT Scott, Joe, Vince & Trev At breakfast, we talk about stopping at Malad Gorge, a tiny state park along I-84 that most people blast by without stopping. The interstate runs right over the top of a neat hole in the ground called the Devil's Washbowl. We …
Canyons Ride 2003 – Day 3: Utaaah!
Sunday, May 25 Spanish Fork, UT to Jacob Lake, AZ Scott, Trev, Vince & Joe 305 miles Hallelujah! We're off the slab. Nothin' but two lane roads all the way to Arizona. First order of the day is to rustle up some real home cookin'. A bit down the road, we find it in Birdseye, …
Canyons Ride 2003 – Day 4: The North Rim
Monday, May 26 Day ride to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon 162 miles The North Rim of the Grand Canyon is 1,000 higher than the South Rim and much less visited; none of the South Rim circus here. After a wonderful ride south through the forest from Jacob Lake, we cross through the …
Canyons Ride 2003 – Day 5: The Grand Staircase
Tuesday, May 27 Jacob Lake to Zion National Park Scott, Trev & Vince 196 miles Joe leaves Jacob Lake and heads north and west to St. George to buy new tires for his Bandit as he's been riding on that plug we put in on Sunday. The rest of us head east. We Washingtonians are …
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Canyons Ride 2003 – Day 6: Dodging Tar Snakes on the Hogsback
Wednesday, May 28 Zion National Park to Scipio, UT 339 miles We check out of our motel, have an excellent breakfast and then head east back through Zion. We take lots of photos but few of them do justice to what we see. It's like riding down a street filled with magnificent cathedrals. We head …
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Canyons Ride 2003 – Day 7: Back on the Slab
Thursday, May 29 Scipio, UT to Ontario, OR 533 miles The slab may be boring but the rest stops can yield some excitement. Upon seeing the cute little dog in the parked car next to us, we step closer only to be barked at, by not one rabid Pomeranian, but six! These little suckers act …
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Canyons Ride 2003 – Day 8: Smellin’ the Barn!
Friday, May 30 Ontario, OR to Seattle, WA 483 miles We awake to some serious rain on Day 8 in Ontario on the Oregon / Idaho border. We consult the Weather Channel and see that the storm is running south to north, along the Interstate and it will take some time to get far enough …
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Rockies Tour 2002
[one_half padding="0 12px 0 0"] Ride Summary No motels! 2,468 miles in 8 days We cross the Rockies & the Cascades 4 times each Destinations: Glacier National Park, MT (take two) National Parks in the Canadian Rockies North Cascades National Park Washington volcanoes: Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Rainier & Mt. Adams States & Provinces we …
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