- Jewett 300K, Italy, TX
Ride fast enough and you'll get to Dixie's Little Stop in Mt Calm, TX
by closing time for a home cooked meal topped off by pie to die for.
You'll need to make 151 miles by 7pm, so on an 8am start, in 11 hours.
It's easily doable if you chop-chop at the controls, even if you're a
slow rider.
- Portland to Glacier 1000K
Lush Western Oregon, Mt Hood, the Columbia Gorge, barren Eastern
Washington, forever farmland on the Columbia Plateau, the Palouse
Country, Idaho, the Coeur d'alenes rail-to-trail, Dobson Pass,
Thompson Pass, the Clark Fork, Flathead lake and finally Whitefish.
Enough said! Challenging ride with great beauty.
- Brunes Mill Backroads 200K, Brookshire, TX
My favorite 200K. The ride into Fayetteville is a real treat.
And of course there is lunch at Orsak's in Fayetteville. Get the
chicken sandwich.
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Jan Heine <hein
...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I'd like to hear about fellow randonneurs' 3 favorite brevet courses.
> Not that my budget of time, money and environmental impact allows
> much travel to distant brevets, but I like to dream about riding in
> the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, climbing passes in Colorado, riding
> along lakes in upstate NY or Minnesota, or seeing the wildflowers in
> the Texas Hillcountry.
> Here are my favorite courses:
> SIR "3-volcano" 300 km: A magnificent course on almost empty roads,
> skirting the volcanos of Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens, with Mt.
> Rainier in the distance. The 10+ km of gravel road over Babyshoe Pass
> are a nice bonus.
> Cascade 1200: Even though this brevet is 1200 km long, there isn't
> much time to get bored, as the scenery varies so much. The course
> includes almost every landscape of Washington State, from temperate
> forests via alpine meadows to semi-desert, plus fields and apple
> orchards. You pass the volcanos of Mt. Rainier or Mt. St. Helens
> (depending on snow situation), ride along the majestic Columbia
> River, climb over and through the huge basalt fields of the Columbia
> Plateau, and finally skirt the Canadian border in the beautiful
> Methow Valley, before crossing the Cascades again. If you can time
> the last bit so you ride at night with a full moon, you will have an
> experience you will never forget.
> SIR "Mtn. 100 km (Un-)Populaire": It's almost all in the suburbs of
> Seattle, but many of the roads are quiet and scenic. Most of all, the
> course has a nice rhythm of hills that increase in intensity until
> the crescendo of the finale on Mount Olympus Drive. It reminds me of
> a Beethoven symphony that way. I like this one so much that I do it
> frequently during the season.
> By the way, for those visiting the Northwest, the route sheets are
> available online at www.seattlerandonneurs.org
> How about your favorite brevet courses?
> Jan Heine
> Editor
> Bicycle Quarterly
> 140 Lakeside Ave #C
> Seattle WA 98122
> www.bikequarterly.com
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