Route Guide: Interurban Burke-Gilman Trail Connector Loop

We’ve gone over the Interurban Trail in South King County, now it’s time for the Interurban Trail in North King County (and extends into Snohomish County, but we won’t be going that far north for this route). At around 25 miles, this is a good distance for an after work route. My routine for preparing for a long event ride is long rides on the weekends, then a ride like this on a Wednesday evening.…

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Route Guide: 520 Trail Loop

One thing I enjoy biking year after year is the changing landscape of possible bike routes. There are routes possible now which couldn’t be done when I started biking. One of those is the 520 Trail Loop. When I first started biking, I lived right on the Sammamish River Trail. I would ride up and down the trail as that was the furthest I could go. I eventually started adding in some elevation with the…

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Route Guide: Green River and Interurban Trails

In South King County there are two major trails which intertwine and create many interesting loops and connections. If you only want to ride on trails, there are plenty of ways to go about that. (Kent has some useful maps here) My route also includes on road riding, especially during the southeast portion of the route. You can follow the river using Green River Rd SE and navigate through Auburn to get to the southern…

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Route Guide: May Valley Loop

The May Valley Loop is a great way to get familiar with low traffic rural roads for those living in and close to Seattle. Usually to enjoy lower traffic rural roads you would need to venture to Snohomish County, East King County, South King County, or Pierce County. However, this route is very accessible to those in the southern Bellevue neighborhoods of Eastgate, Factoria, and Newport, as well as Newcastle, northern Renton, and Issaquah. The…

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Route Guide: Lake Washington Loop

The Lake Washington Loop is about as classic of a Seattle bike route as there is. At around 50 miles, it is a good distance for a day ride, and there are many ways you can add or remove miles to fit your needs – ride two laps if you want to do a century! It is also very accessible, as it goes through the heavily populated areas of Seattle, the Northshore, the Eastside, and…

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Route Guide: Mercer Island Loop

Welcome to my new ‘route guide’ series! In this series I will go in depth on my favorite routes. I can’t think of a better way to start this series than to highlight the route of my first road ride. As I mentioned in my Site Update post, I started riding on Redmond’s trails, but in order to prepare for event rides such as ADA’s Tour de Cure and Cascade’s Flying Wheels, I needed to…

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Site Update 2023

I’ve been thinking about how to make this site as useful as possible. While thinking about this, I found it helpful to look back on my cycling journey. The first bike I bought as an adult was a hybrid bike. At the time I was living in Redmond, right on the Sammamish River Trail. First I started just riding on that trail, going a little further each time. Eventually, I ventured to connecting trails such…

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Bike Tour: Honolulu

Looking back at my last few posts, this is starting to look like a travel blog! I do plan on posting more local Seattle rides later this year, but first I had to escape our freezing cold weather and spend some time on an island! This was my first time to Hawai’i in over a decade, and my first time biking there. I was surprised to find a good network of protected bike lanes which…

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Bike Tour: Portland

This year I participated in STP for the 4th time. I rode it with co-workers, which was a fun experience. We also camped as a group in Centralia. My STP tradition is staying a couple of days in Portland and taking the Amtrak Cascades back. This year was no different. As I hadn’t been riding there in 3 years, I was excited to see improvements like Better Naito Forever and N Greeley Ave. Also hard…

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Bike Tour: Puerto Vallarta

Since early 2020, the furthest I’ve ventured outside of Washington State is Bend, OR. I also haven’t been on a plane during this time. It was nice to take a couple weeks off for a family vacation, and what felt like the first real vacation from work in a very long time. Since I started biking, when I have the opportunity to travel, I like to check out the bike infrastructure to see if there…

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Recap: 2021

2021 was a fun biking year for me! I ventured out of state for the first time in a while, got a couple of event rides in, and went on my first multi-day bus and bike adventure! I was also better at keeping this blog up to date, so I’ll link to some of my previous ride reports here in between filling in the gaps. March 22-25: Bend, OR My first out of state trip…

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Bike Tour: Olympic Peninsula

Getting a head start with transit Yes, it would have been possible to ride all the way to Olympic Peninsula, but the increased bike miles might have added an extra day I didn’t have. Instead, I decided to bike down to the Bainbridge Island ferry and take the bus from there in order to get a bit of a head start. I had planned to make Port Angeles my ‘home base’ for this trip. Day…

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Bike Tour: Olympia Weekend Trip

From rail to trail After my planned RSVP ride was canceled in 2020, I had some Amtrak credit I needed to spend. For those long rides, I like to stay a couple of days at the destination and take the train back. As I had never been biking in Olympia, it looked like a good opportunity for a weekend trip! I took the Amtrak Cascades 503 down to the Olympia/Lacey station. The station is in…

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Ride Report: Middle Fork Snoqualmie

Getting there is half the fun I first learned about Middle Fork road in 2018 from a post on The Urbanist. I don’t know how I let 3 years go by without trying it, but I rectified that mistake on Wednesday. I took the authors advice and went on a weekday in order to take advantage of less recreational traffic. It worked well on Middle Fork Road itself, where I saw just about as many…

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Bike Tour: San Juans Trip

Venturing across the Salish Sea Last week I took a vacation for the first time in what felt like forever – a long weekend in the San Juans! It was also my first time taking a ferry since 2019 when I made it to the Kitsap Peninsula, Bainbridge Island, and Vashon Island. This was also my first time riding the San Juans on my road bike. Lopez Island served as home base, and I completed…

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