Web ride: Sunday Feb 7, 2010

[kirkej]

Kathi and I are riding from our home for our February (the first one, at least) ride to Stub Stuart State Park. Looking at a 10 am departure from here, 10:30 from the Safeway at Cornell and Murray. Not that it takes 30 minutes to get down there, but this IS RST, after all. 

The route will follow Evergreen past the Hillsboro airport, through Roy and Banks. The exact route between Hillsboro and Roy will depend on some web research tonight regarding the bridge on Scotch Church, which was closed a few weeks ago. We pick up the State Trail just north of Banks and follow it to Stub Stuart. There shouldn't be any problem with black ice on the trail or the curve below the ranger station at the park, unlike our last ride when we went up that far.

We normally stop at the Subway in Banks on the return for refreshment. Anyone interested in joining us to enjoy the forecast spot of good February weather?

[kirkej]

I did not find anything about a bridge closure on the Washington County web site, so I guess we have our choice of going that way or through Hillsboro and inspecting the new section of highway that should have been completed north of Cornelius a week ago.

What I DID stumble across was very interesting - I discovered that the bid opening is due this coming week for THIS project:

Banks/Vernonia Trail Extension

Project Timeline
Project start date: 05/01/2007
Construction start date: 06/01/2010
Estimated completion date: 11/01/2010

We have been waiting a looooong time for this one!!  Glad to see it should finally happen this year.