MORE 2010 MONTHLY BIKE PHOTOS

Here's some more, July through December. Please enjoy!

July - Chinook Pass on the east side of Mount Rainier. A frozen Tipsoo Lake is in the foreground.

August - Vern Latta (Mary's hubby) and the chirpy Tammy Bennett climb the last couple miles to Artist Point at the end of the Mount Baker Highway.

August (again) - Me (again) on the last section of the 17-mile, 5,000-foot climb to Hurricane Ridge on the Olympic Peninsula.

September - Tom Meloy and Mark Clausen bomb down from Artist Point on our superfun Everson-to-Artist Point-and-back Hundred-miler.

 Sept. (again) - Titanium Cancellara at the finish of the Capitol Forest 50-mile Mountain Bike Race. Because of a mechanical, he ran about seven miles of it and rode the last 10-plus miles with this wheel strapped to his pack.

October - Steve Hindman descending Atomic Dog on a day in which some of us rode every single trail on Galbraith Mountain.

November - Near the top of Galby's Towers during a snowy Thanksgiving Day ride.

December - View of the San Juan Islands from Galby's Wonderland Trail.



AREA BOY MAKES IT TO GALBRAITH TOWERS FOR FIRST TIME EVER!

It started out as a simple ride up on Galbraith Mountain. Birch Street to the Ridge to Cedar Dust, etc. But then where? We decided on the Wall just to open up the mountain a bit and then figured we'd head to the Blue Rock. But y'know, as long as we're there ...
... why don't go up just a little bit higher so Baker can say he's been higher on Galbraith than he's ever been? (That doesn't sound right.) Anyway, long story short, we reached a point where he said, "I'm determined. Let's go to the top!" And we did. Top shot is him hitting the top Tower: elevation: 1,785 feet. (We started from the stairs on Birch Falls Drive, el. about 500.)
From the towers, the Galbraith world was our oyster. We headed down via the Wonderland Trail, Naughty Nellie, Dirty Sock, Keystone, Bottle Opener (kinda annoying), Kaiser, and Mullet. We were whooped by then so just took a couple dirt roads to get to Cedar Dust.

It was truly epic. The epikest ride we've ever done. About three hours and 45 minutes. Mucho fun too. We rewarded ourselves by meeting Jen for dinner at La Fiamma. (By the way, our faire Jen is performing for the next two weekends in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" at the Bellingham Theatre Guild http://www.bellinghamtheatreguild.com/. Great show!)

Below, please enjoy Bake's visage upon first making it to the Towers.