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| PNW Road Riders AAA 2008 Date 09/26/08 09/29/08 AAA stands for Annual Autumn Adventure. It is a 4 day ride we do late summer or early fall. This year the official ride was to Maupin Or for Friday. Roseburg Oregon for Saturday. Eugene Oregon for Sunday then home on Monday. It was a modification of the original idea to go straight to Roseburg for 2 days of riding around Crater Lake and southern Oregon and Northern California routs. This is were I separated from the group as I wanted to do the Southern routes rather then the Maupin area that we had done earlier. Also a couple of our group consider it a sin to waste a day on the freeway. I on the other hand will invest a day to get far away fast. |
| So I said I will meet you in Roseburg Saturday. So Friday went straight down I 5 south to Grants Pass. My St 1300 is equally happy and comfortable on the freeway so I had no problem. Saturday I ran SW on 199 and took the Happy Camp Road over the Siskiyous. It was a beautiful day and the weather held for the whole weekend. Happy Camp road was clear of any traffic except for the 3 other motorcycle riders I meet at the top and a couple of deer I saw. From Happy Camp I headed east on California Hwy 96. Both of these were first time roads for me. That was the benefit of the Friday slab. To get to new territory. |
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| A little more I5 heading north to the Rouge River area. From there I looped around to Hwy 62 and up to Hwy 227. Hwy 227 was one of the main destinations for me on this day and it was fantastic. Great to good pavement with all types of twisties and some long high speed stretches on the North end. I connected that night with the rest of my group at Roseburg. |
| We returned over 227 on Sunday for our south east loop to Crater Lake. Heading south on 227 I did find a spot or 2 that you need to watch your speed. You can end up coming off a 100 plus mph straight away into a 20 mph corner. We ran most of the Crater Lake loop. It had bee suggested that we do the loop counter clockwise. We did most of the loop clockwise then turned around to head north. The counter clockwise seemed to give a much better view from the road. After Crater we continued east on Hwy 138. Another great ride. We were about to enter the Lost Zone. |
| Our final leg to Eugene was to go over some PAVED forest service roads. The route as planned by Steve did that. But the group was a little spread out at that time and the last 3 bikes missed the turn. We continued on and it was a very nice ride right up to the point that the pavement ended. We thought this was normal and it would resume shortly. But many miles later we were well in the Oregon gravel road back woods. We even found a couple ladies in a car lost as well. I think the video to the left tells the story pretty well. |
