Five of us met at a campground in the shadow of Mt Adams for the *Seattle vs Portland Country Bike Rumble*. We got things squared away at camp and set out for the Rumble Ride. We headed up The North Fork Cispus River for about about 10 miles…. a fair amount of climbing, lots of breaks, bike talk, and we found a nice view point to hang out for a snack and some hanging out before heading back down. The Portland crew whipped up a spaghetti dinner then we settled around the camp fire until well after dark.
In the morning the Seattle crew (aka Brian) was the first one up so he got a fire going and cooked a big batch of eggs. After breakfast and cleaning up around camp, Charlie had to head home, but the rest of us headed out to investigate the snow level. We figured we'd eventually be stopped by the snow and have to turn around. The snow ended up being mostly melted. We got crazy close to making the connection to connect to our 40 mile loop. We implemented the Manny Principle (keep pressing forward despite not really knowing what's up ahead and even though it's likely to cause you to be late getting home). The loop turned out to include a spectacular 5 mile descent down a jeep road. Following the ride we loaded the bikes into the cars and headed our separate ways. As for who "won" the Rumble… I't wasn't exactly clear. We were so pre-occupied riding, telling stories, geeking out on bikes, and generally having a great time that the Rumble part of it fell off the radar. Perhaps we'll have to do it again and be more on top of it. My pics are here. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/15966859@N07/sets/72157633895099178/> The other guys will post theirs in the comments --Smitty -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
