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6-11-78 - ~2.0 - 7:25. Piss-out-of-a-boot [rain] with a bucket thrown in for good measure.
42.6 - 1:00pm - Clatskanie. Todd got snookered w/ a socket. The right size but the
casing is too big. Damn. A neat little town w/ a quaint park with 1000s of little
brats. The weather cracked (not broke). Things are looking a little tipsy. The park
has a church picnic, everyone, not just church people, are really nice.
72.2 - 7:20 - Cooking dinner gonna pork & bean out. The candy got wet
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and has formed a
conglomerate. The weather accidentally broke, I told John not to play with it. Went
over the Kelso bridge, one hell of a bridge. The hill into Rainier was super neat.
We are now on old 99 about three miles from Kalama.
102.6 - 11:45am. Rolled into Battle Ground. Ate lunch at school left about 1:00.
6:40 - 129.0 - Stopped outside Washougal in an old abandoned barn. It's a nice place.
J's working on his brakes and still can't figure out why my
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rear D[erailer] is shifting stiff.
Had 'Chinese Hot Dogs' for dinner.... Well maybe I did 'figer out the rear D.
6-13-78 9:10 - 149.0 North Bonneville. Listening to all sorts of const. &
union talk. Left this morning at 7:05 and it's been sprinkling ever since.
We're starting to get into the gorge. The hills are horrendous. A good 3
miler first thing today. We're going to try to cross into Oregon and ride
along the freeway. Had a good breakfast and we're off.
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7:40 - 205.6 - The Dalles. Crossed the river at "The Bridge of the Gods", named
after an old land bridge that used to be
over the river many, many moon ago. An elderly lady let us into the museum an
hour before it opened to let us out of the rain. We've had one hell of a tail
wind since then. Stopped at Hood River for lunch and found out it was ok to
ride on the interstate, I-80. We're spending the night at The Dalles Dam park.
The police in town said it was ok so we're gonna' stay here and if
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the dam
management comes along we'll tell them Ronald said it was cool. It's nice being
in a different terrain, the eastern type w/ brown hill[s] & pine trees.
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- June 11, 1978
- Started Astoria, Oregon
- June 11
- Kalama, Washington
- June 12
- Camas, Washington
- June 13
- The Dalles, Oregon
Highway 30, in Oregon, is very nice with a wide shoulder, but there are some side roads you should
look for. Between Astoria and Clatskanie there are a number of parallel roads (old Highway 30) on
south side of the main highway. They are quieter and far less traveled. In Clatskanie, there is
a road that almost bypasses the hill to Rainier. I have taken it by car and it is well worth taking.
In the center of Clatskanie go north and follow the signs to Quincy. At the last minute it climbs
the hill above Rainier so you won't miss the ride down to the bridge. Neither of the alternate
routes mentioned have good shoulders.
Also, I have been the route between Camas and Kalama a couple times and find no easy way from
Woodland to Kalama. The Green Mountain Road is the only way and it is one heck of a big hill.
The alternate is five miles on I5. There is no mention of either in our logs, so I assume
Old 99 used to go through.
Twenty years after this I moved, now with a family, to Camas. I read the line about the three
mile hill out of Camas east bound on Hwy 14 and chuckle. I have done that hill a few times,
and the one behind it that actually goes higher and comes
back onto Hwy 14 east of Cape Horn. You can read more about the route from Camas to
The Dalles, including information about the Washington side and the bike trails on
the Oregon side by looking at the The Dalles Loop.
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