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| Oly Rat Ride The Oly Rat group has a regular scheduled ride every 2nd Saturday. The rides are generally long and interesting. The Oly Rats ride a brisk pace. Well the ride started out ok. Steve, Randy (me) and 3 Oly Rats. Terry and I am afraid I don't remember the other names. I stayed out of any route talk as I was going to return early for the PNWRR Dinner. So off we went north to cross the bridge and head to Shelton. The route was something thru Matlock. Steve was in the lead so I followed him. At Shelton we turn west on Highway 3. The last I saw of the Oly riders was as we turned left they were there. A few blocks later they were gone? I thought they may have stopped for gas. We went back. They were no were to be found. We rode back and fourth all over the downtown area. Steve was planning the W Cloqualum rd route. So I think there was some confusion there. We finally headed up the to Shelton Matlock road. We went to Montesano but no joy. We discussed continuing on the original route but we now really did not know what that was. Having never ridden the area south of Elma I suggested we explore some of those road. Steve agreed so we headed back via South bank, Garrard, Manner, Lincoln crk, Handford, Skookumchuck, and Johnson Creek. The Garrard Thu Lincoln Creek area is one of the best combination of roads in Washington State. After Johnson Creek we decided to check out Vail cut off and followed many roads until they ended around Bald Hill road and Clear Lake. We thought we had found some nice new roads until it said road ends. For years I have carried a compass and never used it. There have been times I wanted one but forgot I actually had one. This time I remembered and we used it to find North. Then a fellow in a pickup came by and lead us out of there. It was not the ride we planned but it is one we would do again. |
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