OK, I'll bite..........
Tour location was in NE Oregon south of The Dalles. Always a great area to enjoy some fabulous scenery and amazing roads. For those not familiar with the area - high desert with a few mountain passes and numerous canyons. Oregon has got to have the best highway maintenance program - smooth asphalt while still maintain the old alignments which means lots of twisties. Driving heaven.
First off, I would like to thank Al for organizing and route selection. As usual, he did an excellent job.
I would like to also thank the participants. We had fun together enjoying the adventures and being classy - no BS, no politics and no drama. I believe we ended with 12 cars.
Al was originally trying for the October 17 - 19 weekend, but it needed to delayed 1 week to October 24 - 26 for various reasons. This puts it a little closer to winter.....more on this later.
The Canadians from the Vancouver area gathered early Friday in Bellingham with a departure for 7:00 AM. Our objective was to meet the Seattle area folks in Enumclaw between 10:00 and 11:00 AM. One can never gauge the Seattle area traffic so a large cushion is always needed. Well, Friday traffic was not that bad with limited stop and go. We managed to get to Enumclaw a little after 10:00 AM. Opportunity to reconnect with friends and talk cars.
After grabbing lunch supplies, we head out along the east side of Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helens. Love this route. However, it does get a little rough south of Randle with the road slipping down the mountainside in spots. Just sharpens ones ability to pick the correct lines.
The tour begins......
As we climbed towards Rainier, there was fresh snow on the local mountains and the temperatures were dropping - there was a couple of us going topless.
An engineering masterpiece or a work of art??
Fall colours (that would be Canadian colors, eh
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Froze my butt off even with the heat on full. Mt. St. Helens in background.
