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Aye chihuahua today was long. It is Mrs. tberg's birthday and she chose to ride a two-mountain epic. Has she never heard of day spas?

Amy (Mrs. tberg), Todd (tberg), Steve (Rockin), and I started with a seven mile road climb to the Round Mountain trailhead, after which we survived a brutal and steep climb to the top. As you can see in the pics there was a lot of walking involved, especially for the two of us on singlespeeds. If that weren't enough of a good thing, we crossed the saddle to Lookout Mountain, which we rode and wrote up last week (see previous thread).

 

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Crossing blow-downs was a common occurence once again.
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This hillside was covered in wild mint. The smell made me want to drive to The Saigon Restaurant for a hot, steaming, bowl of pho.

 

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From this viewpoint we could see much of the Central Oregon Cascade range. Off in the distance you may be able to make out several of the snow-capped peaks. The peak to the furthest left is Mt. Bachelor, below which is Bend.

 

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Near the first summit.

2nd pic: The final 10 feet is the steepest of all.
3rd pic: Across the valley you see Lookout Mountain, to which we will be riding over then down.
4th pic: Check out the wind-swept trees and brush.

 

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Descent off the backside of Round Mountain.

In the 4th pic is a look back at Round Mountain on he way up to Lookout Mountain.

 

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Here we have reached the top of Lookout Mountain. I don't think any of us took any pics on the climb up because we were delirious by the time we started climbing it and pictures became deprioritized.

 

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Begin descent off Lookout.

 

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That's all I have. There were two other cameras on the ride, so we may get more pics soon. Thanks for looking at my photos.

 

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Shaweeeet pics!

 

[P-Funk]

Awesome pics! I never seem to take enough pics on my rides. You, on the other hand, are quite thorough.

 

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What a great day!

 

[Rockin]

Thanks for the pics and the ride

I can't believe I forgot my camera.

How was the steak?

 

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