Tuesday, July 28, 2009
WFO-8 Day 2
I left Red Bluff around 9am, heading up I-5 into the mountains by Mount Shasta. The bike turned over to 50,000 miles near Lakehead - I took a couple of pictures.
I stopped for gas and a couple of t-shirts in Weed, and headed up US-97. I should have stopped for lunch in Klamath Falls, but kept going. Just north of town, on a section of US-97 with one lane in each direction, I was forced to the shoulder by a woman in a minivan making a pass. Luckily the shoulder was wide and smooth.
Carole called me just as I turned off on Silver Lake Road. I found a turn-out a mile or two down the road, and stopped to stretch and return her call (which was good news on a medical check-up). The rest of the run to the Thompson cut-off was quick, if you know what I mean.
Just after I hit OR-31, I cut south onto Silver Creek Marsh Road, and 14 miles later did some off-roading to a ridge overlooking the dam from the west. The new tripod worked perfectly.
I backtracked to OR-31 and got gas, then did a bunch of miles over 7k rpm in fifth, reaching Lapine at US-97. The highway was under construction, and I had a 15 minute hard stop at a flag man. I chatted up a couple of ladies on sport bikes heading to a rally somewhere in Washington state.
Traffic was slow through Bend, but picked up afterwards. The Motel 6 in Redmond is one of the nice, three-story ones, with interior corridors and smoke-free floors. I ate at the adjacent Subway and read for a while; later I walked down to the Albertsons for water, granola bars, and some popcorn. I watched about half of a Star Trek with bad audio sync.
Red Bluff to Redmond, OR. Thompson Reservoir Dam. 391 miles.
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SPOT map - full size
Posted by bnc at July 28, 2009 02:57 PM