[OrRando] 2008 400k's

[joel metz]

a candidate, you say? for your perusal, an idea of what i 
enthusiastically consider rideable on my rando bike, from last years 
birkie alternate route bag...

http://www.blackbirdsf.org/randonneuring/2006_200/2006_200_43.jpg

:)

-joel (the guy whos still haphazardly trying to figure out an unpaved 
scapoose-vernonia route...)


At 21:01 -0700 10.31.2007, David Rowe wrote:
>Gravel roads you say .... Kramer-san... I believe we have another
>candidate for 'Raid Tillamook' ... mmmwwwaaaahahahahaha ....
>mmmwwwaaahaaaahaaaahaaaa!
>
>:-))
>
>On Oct 31, 2007 5:56 PM, joel metz <magpie at blackbirdsf.org> wrote:
>>
>>  At 15:21 -0700 10.31.2007, Michael Wolfe wrote:
>>  >Holy crap.  Just went to The Kramer's blog, and saw what he has in
>>  >store for the 400k next year:
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >...the ride to Lost Lake, the climb up Lolo Pass, the Marmot back
>>  >road to Sandy, the ride out to Eagle Cliff, the climb up Government
>>  >Camp and over Bennett and Barlow passes and the ride up Sevenmile to
>>  >The Dalles and maybe up Dry Hollow to gawd knows where.
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >If he means to send riders over Lolo Pass from the east, then that's
>>  >a pretty good long climb up a gravel road.  The climb up over The
>>  >Devil's Backbone on the old Barlow Road is a pretty good pitch, too.
>>  >Not sure where Eagle Cliff is, but then to throw on top of that a
>>  >climb up over Summitt, Barlow, and Bennett passes is pretty brutal.
>>  >Yikes!
>>  >
>>  >My 400k is no walk in the park, but it'll be easier than that!
>>  >Folks who are used to the Covered Bridge 400 are going to have a bit
>>  >tougher time earning their SR next year, that's certain.
>>  >
>>
>>  oh man. i might even be tempted to do a 400k outside of a pbp year if
>  > he manages to sneak this one past the censors :) more gravel!

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