Gales Creek and timber road

[tdbru]

Since it is going to rain tomorrow and for the next few days, I took a late afternoon ride west of Forest Grove on Stringtown Road, then west on Hwy 8 out towards and through Gales Creek.  when Hwy 8 met up with hwy 6 I took that west to timber road.  Timber road has a LOT of tight curves and switch backs and some decent (for the coast range) elevation changes too.  I'll attach photos and perhaps the title can tell you where I was.  I don't have Pdedse's skill with photo attachment.  GC=Gales Creek.  FG= Forest Grove
The rode into Timber is very curvy and totally canopied.  very scenic.  the very tight switchbacks with big elevation change happen right outside of Timber as the highway climbs onto a big plateau.  the road was closed for several years as a landslide took the highway down the side of the plateau.  It's now open again, fun as ever, and smooth pavement.  the tight switchbacks need some attention because gravel trucks usually lose some of their load in the hairpins.   

and there are switch backs going down the other side of the plateau too, just as intense, but in the shade as there is a tall canopy on each side of the road coming off the plateau and heading toward hwy 26.  Hwy 26 was busy with 50K vehicles headed back from the coast to the metro area.  few breaks in traffic.  Fortunately the CB1100 doesn't need a large break in traffic to merge.  

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well, the captions didn't come through on the photos. oh well.
-tdbru