Ride Reports
10 | 07 | '25
Headed out to Darrington this morning and parked below Skyline to begin the ride. Bambi was on the road just before the trail and we stared at each other for about 10 seconds before she took off. Be aware that hunting season starts soon so make sure...
Submitted by tomvale on 10/8/25
10 | 05 | '25
We rode up FS # 73 to FS #7315 (Suntop Road)to the summit parking lot and the road was in great shape. The MTB trail up from the parking lot at the summit was a huge grind, as usual, but it is rutted from motorcyle use. You can still ride most of...
Submitted by ho2lye on 10/7/25
10 | 03 | '25
My Fall will be a busy time so I wanted to get one Meadow traverse on Alpine Baldy in 2025 before the snow eliminates this trail until Spring. I parked the truck just above the target range barrow pit, under the powerlines, and pulled the bike off th...
Submitted by tomvale on 10/4/25
09 | 27 | '25
Today I wanted to get a quick ride down some of Out of the Blue before this coming week really starts Fall with a bunch of rain. Parking at the bottom of the trail's road access, I climbed the southern road to the midpoint of the trail. The logging r...
Submitted by tomvale on 9/28/25
09 | 20 | '25
Building on the momentum from the last few reports! We rode Hansen (clockwise) on 9/20 with some tools in tow. Cleared a handful of sections but plenty of overgrown brushy sections remain. Other than shortened sightlines and getting smacked by alder,...
Submitted by megmcd on 9/20/25
09 | 20 | '25
I wanted to do at least one more bike park this Summer before I put my Enduro into the shop. I drove up to Summit at Snoqualmie Central, and using my EMBA member discount, got my ID ticket from the kiosk and off I went up the chair. My last visit was...
Submitted by tomvale on 9/20/25
09 | 18 | '25
After the heavy easterly winds cleared out the Lake Chelan Valley yesterday, I took advantage of the clear air and did a quick downhill on the Butte. At the summit, you could see the changing winds blowing Sugarloaf fire smoke towards the Columbia (a...
Submitted by tomvale on 9/18/25
08 | 22 | '25
This trail as a lot of over growth problems with seemingly little use or maintenance. Still the trail has wonderful views, fun challenges and an alpine ambiance. There is quite a bit of open and clear sections. A would come back if more people come u...
Submitted by mtrunyan on 9/6/25
09 | 03 | '25
My last ride at Lord Hill was back in March when I was looking to see how the river was before the big snow melt started. Today I went back to get an ‘end of summer’ reference to see how low it was before the atmospheric rivers we get in November and...
Submitted by tomvale on 9/2/25
08 | 30 | '25
It’s been a month since my last report but I have been riding in places out side the scope of the Evergreen web site. I did spend one day at Steven’s Pass, shouldered a rock and needed a week to recover. Once healed, I was down in Seaside, OR and we...
Submitted by tomvale on 9/1/25
07 | 27 | '25
As stated in some of my previous reports, Darrington is my happy place. But today, I really wanted an Alpine Baldy run because the views in the Skykomish area are so wonderful. However, since Alpine Baldy is getting pretty overgrown and no reports ha...
Submitted by tomvale on 7/27/25
07 | 24 | '25
Took a buddy on a long, but fairly easy, gravel ride on the Whitehorse Trail. We parked at the trailhead lot located a mile west of the Oso General Store and rode the 19 miles to Darrington. The trail is in good shape with a couple closure warnings t...
Submitted by tomvale on 7/26/25
07 | 23 | '25
Today in Chelan, I wanted to do a different route than just the climb and descent on the north side of the Butte. So I decided to circumnavigate the Butte just as I had done in May of 2020. I parked at the Reach trailhead and headed East on the Gorge...
Submitted by tomvale on 7/23/25
07 | 21 | '25
It has been two months since my last Darrington ride and I parked at the bottom of Skyline this morning and the plan today was to summit, do Out of the Blue, summit again and do Hoot Owl, Skyline/Jackpot and then go get my Chilli Dog and fries (and a...
Submitted by tomvale on 7/19/25
07 | 13 | '25
I started climbing around 6:30 this morning to reach the summit before the sun started getting really hot. Up on the road at that same switchback as my May 24 report described, that water ski was sitting in the grass so I repositioned it to be more v...
Submitted by tomvale on 7/13/25
07 | 12 | '25
While passing through Leavenworth today I wanted to try the Icicle Ridge loop of the Forth of July climb and the Icicle Ridge descent. So I parked at the Icicle trailhead and headed up the road the 8 miles to climb Fourth of July. I got up about a th...
Submitted by tomvale on 7/11/25
07 | 06 | '25
Today near Lake Chelan, I needed a long ride that went somewhere new for me and would also get me to a summit higher than the Chelan Butte or the top of the Outback at Echo Ridge. I started too late this morning to attempt stuff up near Un...
Submitted by tomvale on 7/6/25
07 | 03 | '25
There has been a lot of new trail work performed by folks in the Mukilteo area and the trails are running really well. There are some places where foliage is encroaching on your grips but nothing to worry about. The dirt isn't dry yet thanks to the t...
Submitted by tomvale on 7/3/25
06 | 06 | '25
We rode this trail all the way. There were still quite a few snow patches but those should be long gone by now [July 2nd].
The good news is that this trail is holding up very well overall despite what I can only assume is minimal maintenance.&...
07 | 01 | '25
Last time I rode this trail was October 2018 and I started from the west end and did a small loop using forest service roads. This morning, I started from the east trailhead and did an ‘out-and-back’ to the Round Mountain viewpoint (5400’). The trail...
Submitted by tomvale on 7/1/25