-FredrikXanTrekNavy in Action
My brother-in-law took delivery of six cubic yards of bark dust that we helped him spread yesterday morning. Xan and the kids took the car, while I couldn’t pass up the opportunity for a bike ride. The weather was perfect and the scenery out there is as good as any in the state.
If you click on “View Details” below you’ll see the elevation profile. The middle of the route is basically straight up, then straight done. A good way to start the day.
I’ve played around with different websites to find one that works best for mapping out bike rides. Google Maps itself is woeful for this purpose. You can’t hit a point on a road and have it move from A to B without going in a straight line. Fortunately, there are some sites that have this function built in (using Google Maps as the backbone).
The best one I’ve found so far is www.bikemap.net. Below is an example of my last ride. Compare this to the Google Map version a couple of posts down. One cool feature is the km/mile markers and the elevation chart.
Yesterday’s bike ride with Sven and his neighbor, Jamie, was another good one. I had mapped out some new roads which none of us had biked before. The terrain west of Beaverton is very hilly, so it’s impossible to find anything that’s completely flat, but the goal here was to avoid the worst elevation gains of the Bald Peak Ridge.
View 70 km Bike Ride in a larger map
Surfing in Bali.
