Project of the day (for tomorrow)
To get my second 200k for the month in, I’m going out tomorrow to do a checkride of another 200k I’m building up as a permanent. I’ve not actually named it yet, but it sort of roughly follows the route of Michael Wolfe’s UGB200 (with the notable exceptions of not touching the MUP that follows what used to be Portland Traction’s Springwater line, bypassing Spangler in favor of Buckner Creek Road, and giving Hillsboro a miss in favor of jumping up to North Plains and zigging through the foothills on the north edge of Helvetia) so I’ve given it the codename “UGB 210” until I think of a more clever name.
Two info controls (Oregon City, the top of the Ridge Road ramp) and 3 stamped controls (Barton, Newberg, North Plains) with maybe additional controls at Gaston and/or Rock Creek if the permanents coordinator thinks that they are needed.
It should be a < 10 hour loop if I don’t tarry at controls (I rode most of the UGB200 at the start of the month, spent close to 2 hours gossiping at one control or another, but still did 200.5km in 10h40 (and this includes the long slow crawl I took across Hillsboro and Beaverton to get from Evergreen & Brookfield down to the ex-Red Electric route into Portland after I peeled off to get home by 5:30pm); this one is a little bit longer and a little bit steeper, but if I do my chatting at speed I should be able to make up for it.)