What’s a tarck century?
if i remember correctly its a metric century?
11 miles
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First and second things I thought
Now thats a century I can get behind
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Sup DL! Where you located these days? Those trails look glorious!
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sup rusty! Living in Vermont now. It’s awesome.
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I went for a bike-park ride yesterday, was fun and used myself pretty hard due to riding with faster folks.
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At some point back in the day, someone mentioned that they went on “a long ride” that was about 11 miles. We redefined a long ride of 11 miles to be a Tarck century.
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17.7km sweet
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My commute is about a metric Tarck century.
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Woke up here feeling a bit dejected
Stepped outside to see this
Stocked up and headed back to Quedillac to meet a friend
Rode through Brittany to Rennes
Hobo-rinko with trash bags and emergency bivvy
Ended the day with Blue
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That’s fuckin awesome
you made it there, learn and do it again
see you in 2023
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PBP only happens every 4 years?
Or is that how long it takes you to think it’s a good idea again?
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Few weeks ago new sup and I rode from our doorstep in Seattle out to Ipsut Creek Campground which resides at the NW corner of the Mount Rainier National Park about 70 miles away. Took MUPs most of the way there so we got to ride side by side and communicate the entire ride. Weather was clear so we got to watch as Mount Rainier got bigger and bigger as we approached. We got there kinda late in the afternoon and the ranger station had closed 5 minutes before we arrived so we weren’t able to get a permit. Also arrived to the main campsite so late that most of the good spots were taken. We went a little further up the trail and found a nice flat sandy spot off a deer trail along the carbon river. Walked out among the boulders on the riverbed, smoked a joint, had sips of whiskey, cooked some dinner and enjoyed the sunset.
Next morning we woke up early and did a quick hike to a waterfall but hit the road a little later than expected. Kinda dragged ass on the return journey, explored some dead ends I was curious about, had some rear tire issues on sup’s bike but made it to Seattle around sunset so we went for a quick swim in Lake Washington while sipping on a cold beer.
Full photo album here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/andy_squirrel/albums/72157710458518561
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Nice! Ipsut Creek is great. Easy, relaxing ride out and awesome, huge trees to gawk on the way up. Hoping to get up there with sup in the near future.
What/where is this?
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It’s right around where there will be a future connection between the two sections of the Foothills Trail which are separated by the White River (no bridge) in the town of Buckley.
The purpose of the canal via internet:
Lake Tapps is a reservoir created in 1911 for hydroelectric purposes. A diversion dam near Buckley taps the White River’s water, sending a portion of it through a flume, a canal, and a pipeline to Lake Tapps. An outlet canal on the west side of the lake routes water through the turbines of the Dieringer Powerhouse, after which the water is returned to the lower White River (or Stuck River as it is locally called in this area) via the Dieringer “tailrace”
I made a map. Red is White River and Purple is the canal, reservoir & dam:
Another cool White River fact which not many people know about:
Before 1906, the White River joined the Green River near Auburn, and the combined river (under the name “White”) joined the Black River at Tukwila, forming the Duwamish River, which emptied into Elliott Bay at Seattle. In 1906, a great flood coupled with a large log and debris jam diverted the White River southward into the Stuck River thence into the Puyallup River, which empties into Commencement Bay at Tacoma. The debris dam was replaced with a permanent diversion wall. Thus the White River remains a tributary of the Puyallup River today
If you haven’t been down the Foothills Trail recently they have done some amazing upgrades. Must have spent a small fortune on all the wide boardwalks twisting through the forest.
In this photo we are going under the new wooden trestle which is part of the trail.
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