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Summer 2025 Washington Ride

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Looks like a sweet spot to camp.
 
After lunch, we followed the next loop, which took us into the Hoh Rainforest. Being part of the Olympic National Park, the line of cars lined up waiting to get in the gate was appropriately long so we turned around and made for the next loop. We were on the west side of the peninsula now and we were riding gravel logging roads through tree corridors with occasionally clear-cut sections of forest.
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Logging is a fact of life in the PNW.
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The remainder of the day was spent in tree corridors, with our loop depositing us back on Hwy 101 at Kalaloch Campground. Seemed like as good a place as any to stop for the night.
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Sunday, July 13 (Day 7)

Over dinner last night, we agreed that loose gravel roads through tree corridors were getting old. We were pretty tired and it wouldn't break our hearts to get home a day early. This would give us a day to clean our bikes and gear and just unwind before going back to work. So we plotted a route back to White Salmon using the Butler map featuring Wynoochee Valley Road and Wishkah Rd. into Aberdeen for coffee. Then, south to Raymond and Hwy 6 east. From Woodland, we caught Hwy 503 past Lake Merwin, through Cougar, to FS-90 to Wind River Road into Carson. Thos was a really fun, fast winding section. At Carson, we took Hwy 14 through the Gorge and followed the Columbia River back to White Salmon.
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We quickly loaded the bikes, grabbed an ice cream cone in town, and crossed the Hood River Bridge heading home with an overnight in Bend.
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