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.