A few weekends ago I didn’t venture south, instead I stayed up here and spent a rainy four hours scoping out some gravel roads and not really doing much more than a lengthy out-and-back ride on Saturday. Sunday, with improved weather, I headed to the Wilson River trail in Tillamook State Forest for a second exploration (I was also there two weeks ago).
I like this trail. It’s not really technical, but it’s up and down and all around, through the woods and sometimes steep and difficult to ascend but a dream to descend. After a few miles on the trail I crossed a pretty neat bridge that happens to be right above the PERFECT summer swimming hole! I felt compelled to snap a picture of the well engineered and delightfully curvy Ibis SLR next to the similarly configured wooden bridge.
As I turned towards the river I saw the little wooden birdhouse with the Batman logo etched into it, so I guess maybe the birdhouse is actually a bat habitat. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it, for now at least! I still haven’t ridden this trail end-to-end, so in the coming weeks once I can justify a weekend away from the dry trails east of Mt Hood, expect to find me edging closer and closer to the Tillamook Cheese Factory and ice cream parlor!
-Ross Brody