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Oregon Bicycle Ride, 2006

Background

This year's Oregon Bicycle Ride offered an interesting route in southern Oregon through the Fremont Forest and east to Lakeview and beyond. Some of the route overlapped slightly with our first supported tour, Oregon Bicycle Ride 1997. The route through the Fremont Forest also overlapped with my first self-supported tour with Linda. So we were eager to join the tour this year. As always, the tour was organized by Bicycle Rides Northwest, a company based in Bend, Oregon.

Itinerary

Day Start Stop Mileage Elevation Gain
August 13 Henley Bonanza 60 1680
August 14 Bonanza Bly 56 2050
August 15 Bly Paisley 49 3250
August 16 Paisley Lakeview 51 2755
August 17 Lakeview Lakeview 99* 4305
August 18 Lakeview Bly 68 2730
August 19 Bly Henley 58 1830
Totals
441 18600

* On the layover day at Lakeview Kent, Dave, and I rode the designated loop east to Adel, north to Plush, and returned to Lakeview by way of the Plush Cutoff. The three of us rode north towards Wagontire from Plush a few miles and back to attempt to make the day a century ride, but I fell a mile short and did not want to ride further once I returned to camp.