Distance: 60 miles
Time: 4 hr 50 min
Elevation Gain: 3,478 ft
Another great day for a bike ride!! With the short mileage, we had a late luggage load and I didn't get on the road until about 8 am. The weather was perfect, cool morning temperature with mostly blue sky, it warmed up nicely to the low to mid 70s as the day went on. We had a good tail wind most of the day, but we also had a strong head wind on some of the early climbs. We started with a steep descent from the hotel followed by a short but steep climb. We road through high desert with rolling hills and wide open views. The scenery was stunning with something different around each turn of the road. We had another steep climb at about mile 18 that gave way to amazing views of Mt. Jefferson and the Three Sisters and later were views of Mt Washington, Three Finger Jack, and Mt Bachelor. We had several more climbs to are SAG stop at mile 30 in the town of Madras. The 2nd 30 miles was a long gradual climb and one long 15 mile descent to our finale destination for the night in the town Prineville. Tomorrow we have a big day, 116 miles with two mountain passes. We have breakfast at 5 am, luggage load at 5:45 and on the road by 6 am.
My GPS Rout
For the photos below: FC means forward view camera and RC means rear view camera
RC - Start of ride in Kah-nee-ta
RC - Start of ride in Kah-nee-ta
FC - Fist climb
FC - Fist Climb - Riding next to Terry
FC
RC
RC
Mt Jefferson
FC - Gary - Mt. Jefferson in background
Mt. Jefferson
Mt. Jefferson
RC - Big climb of the day - Rider Karina
FC - Still on the big climb of the day - Rider Terry
RC - on Columbia Dr. - Rider Terry
FC
RC - Finale stretch to Prineville - Rider Doug
FC - Start of the descent to the town of Madras
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