2009 Labor Day Bike Outing

Troop 626's annual family Labor Day Day bike tour & camp out was in King County for 2009. The vast majority of the route was on King County trails, many of which were soft surfaced former rail road beds. Railroad trails make for relatively flat routes. A gear wagon driven by Mrs Adams-Guy allowed us to ride bikes unencumbered by heavy packs. This is a family friendly event and a Mom and cub scout even rode bikes one day. There was rain at times, but with proper rain gear it was still enjoyable.

Saturday was about 26 miles from Lake Sammamish State Park to Valley Camp in North Bend. Two flat tires and one broken bike didn't stop us. Thanks to Mrs. Reardon for accomplishing a bike swap. Scott's dairy freeze is a few blocks off the trail so we made a rest stop of it. We covered numerous trails including: Issaquah-Preston; Preston-Snoqualmie; Whitaker; Snoqualmie Ridge; and Snoqualmie Valley Trail (SVT). Riders Saturday: Sam R., Gabe R., Ricky A., John T., Mr. Thackray, Mr. Guy, Mr. Kwik and Mr. Funcke. At camp, Mrs. Thackray joined us and Mrs. Adams-Guy along with Bree G. and Conor A., delivered hot dinner to us.

Sunday morning we were joined by Max O. After a "Scout's Own" time of reverence in the camp mini chapel, we headed north from North Bend along the Snoqualmie River Trail. We passed Snoqualmie Falls but we were experiencing our own "water fall" of rain by then so we didn't stop. We rode the SVT trail to Remlinger Farms in Carnation where we ducked out of the rain for awhile before the final few miles into Carnation to Tolt MacDonald Park. A total of 22 miles for the day. The camp's warm indoor showers were soothing. The Orth family joined us for camping. We car pooled with the Orth and Adams-Guy vehicles into town for a convenient pizza dinner.

Monday we had additional riders of Mrs. Gish and Rex O., Sam R., and Gabe R. rode all three days, for which they each received a prize! Also riding Monday were Max O., Mr. Guy and Mr. Funcke. We backtracked on SVT trail then diverted to Fall City and then connected back with our trails from Day 1 through Preston and back to Issaquah, for a total of about 21 miles.

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Posted by: Craig Funcke, ASM

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