{"id":121,"date":"2018-04-16T20:56:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T20:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bvm.stjohncable.com\/index.php\/activity\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T22:22:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T06:22:57","slug":"activity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle trips, and destinations"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Snoqualmie Falls late summer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>

One of my favorite short rides is an afternoon ride to North Bend via Fall City and Snoqualmie Falls on Highway 202. There’s a few nice twisties once past the fish hatchery up to the falls overlook and parking lots.\u00a0 From there, there are more nice curves around the “mill pond”.\u00a0 Take the Tokul Road exit (second exit) from the traffic circle and follow along the pond and take a left at the stop sign.\u00a0 If you go right, you’ll be in North Bend.\u00a0 This mill pond road will circle back to the traffic circle that can take you either to the town of Snoqualmie or back the Falls and Fall City.\u00a0 \u00a0Hard to beat on a nice day!\u00a0 \u00a0BTW, this picture of the falls was recently taken (mid-September) so there’s not a lot of water coming down.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Flow after a LOT of rain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Here’s a picture of the falls after a LOT of rain one year.\u00a0 There’s SO much water coming over the falls that it creates a LOT of spray, and you WILL get wet standing at the overlook!<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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My Nomad at the campsite<\/figcaption><\/figure>

\"\"I think my most favorite ride routes are from Cougar Rock campground to Paradise at Mount Rainier, about a 20-minute ride, and the ride from the campground to the Stevens Canyon entrance is awesome!\u00a0 That ride is pretty much all day to get to the east entrance and back to the campground for dinner, with stopping at the Ohanapecosh river so to dip my feet in the cold glacial water!\u00a0 However, the ride to get to Cougar Rock from home in Redmond, Washington is ANOTHER matter.\u00a0 \u00a0I usually I-405 to SR167 and then head for South Hill in Puyallup and get grub at Tacoma Boys store.\u00a0 Traffic, though is a hassle until you get past the town of Graham.\u00a0 Here are a couple of pics of my ’99 Kawasaki Nomad at my campsite (but not THIS year).\u00a0 \u00a0Sadly, Mount Rainier has become SO popular that the NPS (National Park Service) has started what the call “timed entry” – you have to have picked a time to enter the park beforehand during peak season.\u00a0 Typically, here in the Northwest it can be pretty wet before “peak season” and after Labor Day.\u00a0 Then because of wildfires, the NPS can OK you can set up camp but NO CAMPFIRES.\u00a0 And that’s 2024 in a nutshell: too wet before peak season and too dry after, so no campfires.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Long before I got into motorcycling, a high school bud and I drove to Mount Rainier and camped out at Ohanapecosh campground the summer after we graduated.\u00a0 We hiked (basically a long walk) up to the then Paradise ice caves.\u00a0 Unfortunately, they are now long gone because of the receding Nisqually glacier \"\"(could it be… global climate change??<\/strong>) but this picture on the lower right is pretty much what the ice cave looked like back ’68 or so when my friend and I were camping at Ohanapecosh campground. We entered the cave and the watch I was wearing IMMEDIATELY developed condensation inside the watchface that I was never able to get clear again.\u00a0 Here’s an interesting page about the Paradise ice caves<\/a>.\"\"<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite short rides is an afternoon ride to North Bend via Fall City and Snoqualmie Falls on Highway 202. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-121","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}