[OrRando] joels 200k "report" now up, with pictures...

[Ray Ogilvie]

The plan, as I have heard it, is to pave the lower section this year and 
continue the trail over the northern section all the way to Scappooose ( it 
vaugely follows the Scappoose-Vernonia Hwy) by the end of '08.

Ray Ogilvie



>From: "Bert Lutz" <bert_lutz at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: Oregon area Randonneurs <orrando at tire.patch.com>
>To: "'Oregon area Randonneurs'" <orrando at tire.patch.com>
>Subject: RE: [OrRando] joels 200k "report" now up, with pictures...
>Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 08:45:25 -0700
>
>
>As I left Vernonia following 47 to Tophill, I was flagged down by a nice
>woman who wondered why all the bikers were not riding the bike path.  Seems
>the "locals" (her word not mine) are proud of the path and can't understand
>why the "non-locals" (my word not hers) don't use it.  I explained that 
>some
>roadies shy away from paths due to other traffic like hikers, runners, etc
>and debris that often litters these trails.  Skinny road tires and paths
>sometimes don't mix.  She seemed happy with the explanation and said that
>she would pass it along to others.  A local mystery solved...
>
>We also talked about traffic on 47 and she did not seem the least irritated
>that bikers might slow down local traffic.
>
>Nice woman and a reasonable conversation.  Not unlike others I had during 
>my
>last trip to Veronica on New Years Eve.  But that is another story...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: orrando-bounces at tire.patch.com 
>[mailto:orrando-bounces at tire.patch.com]
>On Behalf Of Susan France
>Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 7:57 AM
>To: Oregon area Randonneurs
>Subject: RE: [OrRando] joels 200k "report" now up, with pictures...
>
>What a super report. Of course I thought the bikepath to Tophill was the
>highlight too. Sylvia Shiroyama and Bill Pence also took the trail to
>Tophill, but they'd not read my preride email...so they wondered just what
>I'd gotten them into. Whoops, guess I should have added the comment that it
>turns to single-track after Beaver Cr Trailhead.
>
>Doing the entire B-V bikepath is a treat. After Tophill it switches to the
>other side of 47 and a couple miles beyond that heads downhill. Since it's
>an old railroad bed it's always a gentle grade. I've always thought the
>section between Beaver Creek and Tophill was the most difficult section for
>us who are uncoordinated and who have to dismount when the stuff gets muddy
>and soft. Eventually the path turns back to pave near Buxton, then you have
>to take a couple miles of gravel road before you get back on the paved
>section everyone rode between Manning and Banks. I hope when they complete
>the new State Park that they also pave this entire path... then there would
>be no reason to have bikes on Hwy 47 between Vernonia and Banks...which,
>while a perfect fine section of hwy to ride, always seems to be patrolled 
>by
>irate rednecks (as was Duane's experience on this ride)
>
>Susan.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: orrando-bounces at tire.patch.com
> > [mailto:orrando-bounces at tire.patch.com]On Behalf Of joel metz
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 8:20 AM
> > To: orrando at tire.patch.com
> > Subject: [OrRando] joels 200k "report" now up, with pictures...
> >
> >
> > ...that is, if you want to look at blurry pics of things i rode past :)
> >
> > http://www.blackbirdsf.org/randonneuring/2006_200.html
> >
> > but more pics than last time! man i need a new (non-ancient)
> > digital camera...
> >
> > -joel
> >
> > --
> > joel metz  : magpie at blackbirdsf.org :  http://www.blackbirdsf.org/
> > bike messengers worldwide : ifbma : http://www.messengers.org/
> > 		       portland, oregon
> > ==
> >            i know what innocence looks like - and it wasn't there,
> >                                  after she got that bicycle...
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