North Cascades Highway - Bike pics

NorthCascades

The weather man told us the clouds would peel back Friday and reveal the sun. Living in Seattle, this is big news. I took the day off and drove my bike 200 or 300 miles (round trip) to ride on the North Cascades Highway. We never got the bluebird skies I hoped for, but it was a great time, with fantastic scenery.

By the numbers, because this wasn't just fun it was exercise too: 41 miles, ~3,800 feet of vert, 3:16:42, and 1,643 kCal. That gets me a piddly 12.4 mph at 139 watts. I feel like I would have burned about 200 more kCal if I'd been on my old wheels.

The burn zone just past Newhalem.





Gorge Lake.



One of the thousand little waterfalls.



End of the road. Well, not for me. I only ran into skiers beyond this point.





Turn around point. This is why they close the road.



Scenery.





And the ride back out.



Approaching Diablo Lake. Pyramid and Colonial in the background.

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

Fantastic pics and bike

stephaniezinone

I'm just a lurker and I've never commented on a post before but I gotta... I love and look forward to seeing your photos. Thank you so much for sharing them.

SonyaCele

so beautiful!!!

JaxxieKat

What an incredible experience! Thank you for sharing with us.

lorrpb

Such a beautiful area! Glad you were able to get out and enjoy it.

kcjchang

Beautiful but looks cold. Love the red accents.

NorthCascades

Better late than never: https://www.relive.cc/view/924022015

WhitneyDurham777

I was thinking that I wanted to get out on my bike this weekend. Pretty inspiring pics, but looks like rain and snow for me.