North Cascades Highway - Bike pics

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.