The rain continues here in the Pacific Northwest so instead of waiting for the rain to stop, we go somewhere that you can ride when it’s wet. Probably one of the best places to do that is in the Tillamook State Forest, a temperate rain forest in the Oregon Coastal Mountain Range. It rains here a lot, the terrain is well suited to the wet weather and is ridable for mountain bikes even during significant rain events.
We started out from the Diamond Mill OHV parking lot, crossed the North Fork of the Wilson River and headed up Kings Mountain in steady rain. Once we got into the forest, the rain wasn’t as noticeable, although everything was wet and the creeks and rivers were rushing from all the recent rain.
We rode/hiked up the steep and slippery in spots, trail for a few miles then turned around and headed back to the river. The wet leaves over wet rocks on sections of the trail kept the downhill interesting.
Stopped in Colemans Shady Rest for a bite to eat and a couple beers and then it was back through some heavy rain showers and home in the Gorge.
Work on the watermanatwork.com website continues. A lot of the work at this stage of the game is technical mumbo jumbo, but you should notice that it is now much easier to view the photos and there is the option for a photo slideshow on every photo page.