We Are Ready to Ride!

Here's our riding group+ support staff in our new matching America by Bike jerseys as we begin our first true day of riding from Astoria to St. Helens, Oregon.  Check out those smiling faces.  The sun is shining!

This stop was to record the lovely forests that covered much of the hills along the roadsides as we traveled from the coast inland to the east.  Drew, Greg and Holly.

Support vehicles surround the rest stop pavilion at the Gnat Creek Fish Hatchery.  See the giant salmon that the little hatchlings will turn into?  We can only hope!

Coming down the long downhill (after a very long climb UPhill out of Clatskanie, OR), we were treated to this sight of the bridge and paper mills at Longview, WA. Look closely and you will see Mt. St. Helens with its flat top in the background.


Tomorrow we will journey along the edge of the Columbia River out to the base of Mt. Hood in Welches, OR.  They are predicting rain.  Will it obscure our views of Mt. Hood?   Tune in tomorrow.........