Guides and Trips
Trips
This was a short(ish) circuit around the north half of Seattle, starting and ending at the Elliott Bay Trail in Interbay, following a similar route that I took last year. Highlights along the outbound half of the loop are the Ballard Locks (which under blue skies are really pretty), the views of the Sound from Golden Gardens Park and Blue Ridge, and the Interurban Trail, which follows an old street car roadbed...
This was a short after-work ride around Discovery Park and Magnolia Bluff. Once in the park, most of the pedaling was spent following the roads down to the shoreline (or as close to it as you could get) to see the Ship Canal, Puget Sound and Elliott Bay. It was a really pretty day for it, blue skies with some high clouds and temps in the 70s, and lots of boats out...
This was the Cascade Bicycle Club's 2011 Flying Wheels Summer Century ride. And wow, what an awesome ride - you kind of wish it would have kept on going on all the way up to Everett. Inglewood Hill at the beginning and Grand Ridge / Duthie Hill at the end are a pain, but once you're up there's a great drop back down eventually. The scenery in the Snoqualmie and Snohomish Valley...
This trip is was an out-and-back loop from Lewis Creek Park in Bellevue to Green Lake in Seattle, following the I-90 Trail, Lake Washington Loop Trail, and Burke Gilman Trail before heading up Stone Way to Green Lake. Nice views of the lakes, the Olympics, Mt. Rainier and a pleasant ride through residential Seattle following the Lake Washington Loop Trail. Once at Green Lake there were still a few kayakers out from...
Today was the spring day we Puget Sounders have been waiting all year for: cloudless blue skies, temps near 80, and just enough of a light breeze to cool things off when the pedaling gets hot.This ride was a loop out to Carnation and back, featuring a swing through downtown Issaquah, a climb up the southeast edge of the Sammamish Plateau, a rolling stretch through the farmlands of the Snoqualmie River valley,...
Memorial Day means it's time for the yearly 7 HIlls of Kirkland ride. This year the weather cooperated (mostly) - it was cloudy but it didn't rain. And given the weather so far this spring, we'll take it! This year's ride was the metric century route: it starts at Kirkland's Marina Park on Lake Washington, and follows the first six of the traditional seven hills, climbing Market Hill, Juanita Hill, Seminary Hill,...
This ride was a short hop around Newport Hills and May Creek, taking the opportunity to soak up the scenery in May Creek valley and add a little hill climbing to boot. I started off at elevation in Lewis Creek Park, dropped downhill to follow the Lake Washington Loop Trail south along edge of Lake Washington for a few miles then took a spur street into May Creek Park for a ride...
This ride took advantage of a warmish spring day to take a leisurely tour around several of the parks in Bellevue - lots of stops, hence the long duration and low average speed. The day kicked off mostly sunny, with clouds slowly piling in for the evening rain showers as the day went on.Starting from Lewis Creek Park, it goes through Mercer Slough, Enatai Beach Park, Chism (Beach) Park, Clyde Beach Park,...
Today's ride was relatively short, but then the point wasn't so much to go far horizontally as it was to get to the top of the three hills in the area. Started off at Lewis Creek Park, then climbed to the top of Summit, then Hilltop, then Somerset. Really nice views of Lake Sammamish and the Cascades to the east and Seattle, Lake Washington, Bellevue and the Olympics to the west, all...
This was a short ride - kind of a "can you get there and back before it starts pouring" ride. All in all, the weather was pretty decent - mid 50s, a brief pause from the rain, and a chance to go out and back along the east edge of Lake Sammamish. Lots of pretty clouds, but some pretty threatening ones, too, near the end.The views of the lake were nice, with...
Issaquah - Maple Valley - Soos Creek Park
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Road biking | 49 miles
Road biking | 49 miles
Full confession: We had a really beautiful Sunday for May 1st, and in trying to decide where to bike what made me choose this route was that the GPS trace would look like a sitting dog. (Well, sort of.) So yes, I've been reduced to picking rides based on what I can draw along the way.This started off at old faithful Lewis Creek Park, and rode in to Issaquah via going up...
Spring on the Issaquah Alps (North side)
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Road biking | 19.0 miles
Road biking | 19.0 miles
This was a short ride as mileage goes, but it made up for it in ups and downs on the hillsides (and had a few stops in there to admire the views, even if the street signs wanted to discourage you from doing so), covering two loops in Southeast Bellevue and Issaquah. Starting at Lewis Creek Park, the first climb was to the top of Cougar Mountain, making a couple of extra detours...
Saturday was an even better day for cycling than Friday - totally clear skies, temps in the high 60s and, it was a Saturday! We've been waiting for a day like this all spring. This ride started on the Eastside at Lewis Creek Park in Bellevue, circled down the south end of Lake Washington, then across the I-90 Trail to the West Seattle Bridge and Alki Trails for a loop around the...
Finally! We had a spring day in Seattle where it (1) didn't rain, (2) got over 60 degrees, and (3) was a Friday. For this long lunch hour ride I started on the Elliot Bay Trail, rode north towards Magnolia, crossed the Ship Canal at the Chittenden Locks then proceeded to make a circuit around Ballard and back via Green Lake, the Fremont Bridge and the Ship Canal Trail before rejoining the...
This ride was a hopeful attempt to get outside in a brief interlude in what's been an otherwise pretty miserable spring so far - wet, gray and cold. I started off at Marymoor Park in Redmond with the idea in mind of doing a quick circuit of the base of the Sammamish Plateau. The route is mostly flat to rolling, with one brief climb about halfway through up Duthie Hill on the...
This ride was another spring circuit around the north end of Lake Washington and along the Burke-Gilman Trail in Seattle west to the Sound and Golden Gardens Park - in search of more blooming cherry trees. The first leg was a straight shot north through Bellevue and Kirkland and up Finn Hill in Juanita to the north end of the lake. Not many pictures along this segment because it started to rain...
What's cloudy at both ends and sunny in the middle? A rare Saturday afternoon in the Pacific Northwest. This ride was a loop from the hills of southeast Bellevue north to Bothell and back. Although today wasn't as thoroughly sunny as we had yesterday, the mostly cloudy skies at the beginning of the ride gave way to some sunbreaks and mild temps midway through before clouding up again at the end in preparation...
Prior to today, we hadn't had an officially mostly sunny day in the Puget Sound area in 41 days. (The NWS defines that as 5 to 30% opaque cloud cover.) But finally patience was rewarded, and we had a sunny day with temperatures in the mid 50s. Still a little below average for this time of year but we'll take it.This ride starts at Lewis Creek Park on the shoulder of Cougar...
Today's ride was one that I've taken a few times before - a circuit around the south end of Lake Washington with a detour loop on Mercer Island. It's the last day of winter (finally!), and having already reached our monthly average for March after only the first fifteen days, we had the welcome gift of a dry day with temps in the low 50s, and this route is the perfect cure...
Our late winter La Whatever weather took a breather today and gave us mostly clear skies - but still brisk (mid 40s) temperatures, so time for a bike ride. Today's outing was a mixture of hills and flats, lake and mountain views.Starting off at Lewis Creek Park the first leg was a climb up to the top of Cougar Mountain, then down again along the switchbacks along Zoo hill. It's a nice...
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