Our journey continues into another adventure: THE McKenzie River Trail. If you love to mountain bike, this needs to go on your bucket list. Along with Porcupine Rim in Moab, this is now one of my top 2 trails I have ever ridden.
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| One of the coolest bike racks I have ever seen! |
We took a shuttle up the 20 mile road to the upper trail head and then had a great cross country ride for 5 hours!
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| GREEN! |
This 27 mile long trail follows the McKenzie River from its headwaters
at Clear Lake where springs literally gush from the ground to form the river. Emerald and sapphire colored clear water reservoirs and lakes and roaring waterfalls, rough lava flows and lush mossy green old growth forests all create a diverse and interesting trail that undulates up and down in a steady cross country wild ride. The river actually disappears underground for awhile and then reappears by bubbling up at the bottom of a crystal blue pool, where it then takes off into rushing whitewater above ground again. Pretty amazing.
It wouldn't be the perfect trail without the sharp volcanic rock
technical sections. The upper MRT has most of the technical, while from Trail Bridge Reservoir it is fairly smooth.
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| Not an uncommon picture with Mike and bikes! |
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| Maybe best of all, we got a new regulator and got the camp oven to work! Our final issue with the van resolved, just in time to ship it down to Chile! A beautiful meal of fresh roasted salmon from the Columbia River and fresh veggies from Mike's mom and dad's garden came out of the oven in 40 minutes instead of 2 hours and 40 min! Yay! Our luck luck turned! Now maybe Mike can be IN the van more than UNDER it!!! |
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