Fantastic scenary up there in Washington. I was up in Spokane last summer in June visitng family (My grandparents live in Spokane and I have aunts and uncles in Seattle). So nice. I'd love to ride up there some day.

As for the temps... sheesh, 60 and warm? What a comedian. It was 60 and sunny today and I woulnd't go riding. A bit too windy. I'd have to bundle up and stop all the time, and of course in the woods and the shade its nowhere's near 60. If its less than 60 I have to have an extreme itch to ride, as in, its been a week out of the saddle.

On the photo with the old road: That's so neat, I love how nature does that. What's even more bizzare here where I ride in the old Army camp, is that the roads are concrete and asphault. Its very odd to see a straight path with no trees, but its covered in grass, or barely you can see the pavement. We found a road in the last couple weeks where none of the asphault is left, its just a dirt path with no trees growing.

Very Planet-of-the-Apes, as my dad says

 

Nice report deej! Around here in Western PA, they drill holes like that to take core samples. In our case, they are looking for coal or Marcelas shale (to extract natural gas).