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.   :dodgy:

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

 

[Cormanus]

Nice picture and report, tebru.

For future reference, you have to take another step with your photos to be able to insert captions. Having uploaded them, you must then insert them into the post. There's a button that will let you do that. You'll see something like [attachment xxxx] where xxxx is a number appear in the post. Put your caption above or below it. It also means you can control where you want the image to appear in the text.

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[pdedse]

Oooooh, very nice! We are on opposite side of Portland, and I've seen that Timber was closed for some time, and it's a road I think I may not have been on. Looks very fun! Creative use of the pallet for an American flag. Maybe we can still get together for a ride this fall. Despite rains this week, there should be some dry October days ahead.

 

[tdbru]

Pdedse,
I'd really enjoy getting a chance to meet you and ride.  I have a fairly long (1/2 day) route on this side.  covers 219 twisties towards Newberg, Bald Peak road, road to laurelwood, through Gaston and loop Hagg lake, Springtown road to Gales Creek.  out hwy 6 to timber road.  take timber road to 26 but then go across 26 and on up to Vernonia.  then on to mist and birkenfeld.  then to Jewell and down to 26 and then back to timber road and take timber road the other way, then hwy6 back to the Gales Creek road, on into Forest Grove and coffee at blackrock at the intersection of hwy47 and hwy8.  Lots of great scenery, twisty roads, farmland, forest, ride some beside the Nehalem river.  pretty nice route.  Besides dry, what day(s) of the week can you sneak on out to the west side?  Or should we do a ride closer to your neck of the woods.
-tdbru

 

[pdedse]

Pdedse,
I'd really enjoy getting a chance to meet you and ride.  I have a fairly long (1/2 day) route on this side.  covers 219 twisties towards Newberg, Bald Peak road, road to laurelwood, through Gaston and loop Hagg lake, Springtown road to Gales Creek.  out hwy 6 to timber road.  take timber road to 26 but then go across 26 and on up to Vernonia.  then on to mist and birkenfeld.  then to Jewell and down to 26 and then back to timber road and take timber road the other way, then hwy6 back to the Gales Creek road, on into Forest Grove and coffee at blackrock at the intersection of hwy47 and hwy8.  Lots of great scenery, twisty roads, farmland, forest, ride some beside the Nehalem river.  pretty nice route.  Besides dry, what day(s) of the week can you sneak on out to the west side?  Or should we do a ride closer to your neck of the woods.
-tdbru

I've ridden a good deal of that, but not all.  Sounds awesome!  Typically a Friday or a weekend would have to do.  Maybe the rains will stop by the end of the week? Let's keep our eye on the weather. 
:biker: :biker:

 

[rdprdp01]

Absolutely stunning, tdbru. Thank you for posting. David