2024 Pashnit Touring on a Hayabusa

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You could watch the ocean waves for hours.

But we're on a schedule and headed south along the Oregon Coast along Highway 1

 

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Highway 1 along the Oregon Coast

 

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View of the Ocean from our rooms

 

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I'll take the red one on the end. I think we're up to Five of our tour alumni have bought the Suzuki GSX-S1000GT+.

Randy considers a buying a $60,000 motorcycle. Probably not.

 

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A lot of Central Oregon looks like this. The eastern side is a desert, but no one tells you that in the brochure.

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Several years ago I found this super awesome stretch of road in the Coast Range- Alsea-Deadwood Highway & Lobster Valley Rd near Alsea, Oregon.

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…’brochure’… Sure is a difference in topography all right. North of Winnemucca NV for example, to Burns OR and east from there is all desert until you get to Idaho but over 4,000’ in elevation. Nothing at all like the western half of the state, the green half. Nice pics Tim.

 

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Highway 542 - Powers Highway into Powers, Oregon, what an awesome ride, s-curve twisty and fast. The tour riders loved it.

 

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Welcome to Powers, Oregon. Ran when parked, no low ballers, I know what I got.

Tiny town with a logging history.

 

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The reason for Powers, Oregon, even though there's nothing in this town, a tiny general store and that's it - is the main road ends here. One paved road into the town and that's it. But headed south out of Powers we can head east up and over the Coast Range.

The wide two lane doesn't last. It feels more and more remote and the road goes from wide two lane to narrow, and more narrow.

There's only one paved-single-lane logging road up and over the range.

 

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One thing Oregon is famous for if you know where to look is their logging roads.

So green!

 

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These logging roads are so remote, they don't even have names, this one is BLM 32, just numbers - but this one is paved all the way across the range up and over Mount Bolivar.

 

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My buddy who was local suggested a viewpoint along the ocean at Cape Perpetua

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It wasn't raining. These was just so much fog, it was condensing on the leaves of the redwoods.

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It wasn't raining, this was just coming off the redwoods above.

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Misty redwoods in the sky. I’ve enjoyed this effect under the old growth giants in Humboldt and Del Norte counties. It’s almost magical, like a made up place. Those that haven’t ventured out to (our) coasts are really missing out on an unforgettable experience. Great pics!

Oh, it’s 101 north of Leggett Tim not hiway 1. Just a typo I know.

 

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As we reach the summit of the range on BLM 32, we get into swaths of logging & wide open views. We were here on this same road a few years ago and it was all freshly clear-cut. Now a few years later, the entire clear cut has been replanted and the trees grow back quickly.

The new pines can grow 1 foot in height per year.

They still have logging here in Oregon, something we really don't do anymore in California. The logging companies maintain the roads and these single lane goat trails are surprisingly in great shape and smooth. Super awesome views!

 

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Oregon BLM 32