We still have some openings for our advanced S/TEP class with a 1 1/2 day tour of the Eastern Columbia River Gorge. We also have a few sidecar rigs for rent.
Offered through Hood River Community Education
Fee $550
Sidecars, lodging and meals are not included.
Bring your own sidecar or rent one of ours.
Our Eastern Gorge Mini Tour will provide some spectacular riding through a variety of terrain. We will ride through the forests and loop down basalt cliffs to the Columbia River. We will continue East, through the wheat fields and pioneer homesteads before turning South and then back West, into the mountains with the majestic Mt.Hood looming ahead of us as we ride through the tamarack and pines of the National Forest.
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The Sidecar Skills Mini Tour is geared towards folks that already have some experience or training. Friday evening and Saturday morning is the Advanced S/TEP class. We will brush up on technique and work towards perfection during the Advanced S/TEP class, then apply it during the rides Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday. The routes will be a mixture of highway and secondary roads with some gravel and dirt roads as well, touring the spectacular Columbia River Gorge and surrounding mountains.
We stopped at Fairbanks to wire tamales to the headers
Fairbanks was a waypoint on the Oregon Trail. All that remains of Fairbanks is an abandoned pioneer schoolhouse and this monument
We headed up Moody Road for a picnic high up on the cliffs overlooking the Columbia River high above the Native American village of Celilo
We dropped back down off Moody road and continued our meander through the farmlands and ghost towns of Wasco County
Mt.Hood towered above the rolling wheatfields
Mt.Adams poking up behind a derelict one room school house
Mt.Hood from the schoolhouse coat room
Shades of the dustbowl: That brown smudge I am riding into is the 35mph winds lifting the topsoil off a freshly plowed wheat field
Place names and ghost towns of the Old West
We rolled into Rice, once a thriving community, now a few decaying wood grain silos and a pioneer cementary
I would have missed this old grave yard if Roger hadn't spotted it on the other side of a pasture behind the grain silo
The Rice family plot
A calvary officers grave
As the sun dropped in the West,
we climbed over the ridge and headed home
We'd left just after noon and got home just before sunset. It was a great ride! The tour will be every bit as good!
September 17~19, 2010 Eastern Columbia Gorge Mini Tour
Offered through Hood River Community Education
Fee $550
Sidecars, lodging and meals are not included.
Bring your own sidecar or rent one of ours.
September 17~19, 2010 Eastern Columbia Gorge Mini Tour
Offered through Hood River Community Education
Fee $550
Sidecars, lodging and meals are not included.
Bring your own sidecar or rent one of ours.
the Red Menace
that looks incredible. too bad I live in the exact opposit corner of the states. I could'nt get too further away.
