glenfiddich
TravelsWithBarley.com
Glenlivet and I will be setting out from Vermont in our sidecar rig in late April. After lingering in the Ozarks, southern Utah, and Sequoia NP, we'll hit the California coast at Morro Bay and ride north catching Big Sur, the Golden Gate, and Redwoods NP on the way to my favorite part of the Pacific Coast - the stretch between Brookings and Bandon OR.
From there I was hoping to revisit Crater Lake and scatter some of Barley's ashes, but the timeline (early June) won't work unless a miracle melts all the snow at that higher elevation park. So I'm looking at options to get us north into Washington where our goal is to camp at one of the lower elevation campgrounds in Mt Rainier NP before heading to Forks WA and around the Olympic Peninsula.
Option 1 is to simply continue north along the Oregon coast to Astoria, meet my young niece and her husband, then cross the river and continue to Rainier and beyond. I think, however, that by that point I'll be ready for a break from the coast.
Option 2 is to head for the spine of the Western Cascades past the Three Sisters and on up to Hood River or The Dalles where my niece and her husband would meet up with us. Then cross the river and continue as above. But I'm not sure what that route looks like in early June. Are the roads clear? Campgrounds open? Route suggestions?
Pete and Glenlivet
From there I was hoping to revisit Crater Lake and scatter some of Barley's ashes, but the timeline (early June) won't work unless a miracle melts all the snow at that higher elevation park. So I'm looking at options to get us north into Washington where our goal is to camp at one of the lower elevation campgrounds in Mt Rainier NP before heading to Forks WA and around the Olympic Peninsula.
Option 1 is to simply continue north along the Oregon coast to Astoria, meet my young niece and her husband, then cross the river and continue to Rainier and beyond. I think, however, that by that point I'll be ready for a break from the coast.
Option 2 is to head for the spine of the Western Cascades past the Three Sisters and on up to Hood River or The Dalles where my niece and her husband would meet up with us. Then cross the river and continue as above. But I'm not sure what that route looks like in early June. Are the roads clear? Campgrounds open? Route suggestions?
Pete and Glenlivet