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Ride Summary:
Take the fire roads up and the very fun singletrack down!
Trail Description:
This is not an Epic or really hard ride (although you will need some good skills!!). The directions are VERY easy. You should not have a problem at all finding everything. Grab your bike and start riding up the North fork road (the one you came in on). You will want to take the first left (at about a half of a mile). and follow that road for about 2.5 miles. At about 3 miles you will come to another intersection. Continue to go left and uphill (although the steepest is over). At mile 4.5 you reach the trail head (it is well marked as Taneum Ridge Trail. Take a right on the trial. The trail is Very FAST!!!! and in some places skill is need to manuver the little woop-dee-doos. There are a lot of banked corners. The entire trail is less then 10 miles with only about 1500 feet of climbing, BUT IT IS FUN!!! We call it the Perma-grin because you cannot help but smile on your way down!! Once you are on the trail follow it all the way down (it is almost impossibe for you to get lost) to your car. The trail will spit you out RIGHT where you parked. Now, if you can, whipe that smile off your face!! ENJOY THE RIDE!
How to get there:
Continue driving east on I-90 after passing Cle Elum. Take the Elk Hights Road Exit. Take a left across the interstate and follow the road for about a half of a mile. Turn east (right) at the "T" intersection and follow that road (you are now paralleling I-90) for about 4 miles. After about 4 miles you will want to re-cross the interstate and take a right at the "T". You should now be going west on Taneum Creek road, which will turn into a one lane paved road (forest road 33) after a while. You want to continue driving west for about 10 miles, to a spur road off to the left, which is well marked as North Fork Taneum Creek. After turning left, cross and Creek and park.
| Posted by: chandra on 6/14/2012 |
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At this point, I dont care where Obama was born. We just need to make sure hes a one term president. We need to vote out all those who have voted for Obamas prragoms. Check each of your congresspeoples voting records. There are some good guys up there and we need to keep them. They, at least, have their heads on straight.
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| Posted by: JP on 9/28/1999 |
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I rode this trail today and thought it was kind of f*&ked up. These were my problems. Logging trucks on the forest road, the actual forest rode climb is more like 6 miles, and the trail had lots of hike-a-bike due to massive destruction from motorcyles. Huge ruts filled with 5 inches of dust. Dont waste your time riding the entire forest road. At about 2 miles you will run into the trail. Take a right and ride this section down to the parking lot. The upper section had some nice views but wasn't nearly as fun as the lower section. One last thing, get some Green Trails maps of the area and check out the couple dozen other trails in the area.
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| Posted by: Bob Duchemin on 6/29/1999 |
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I should have been skeptical when the instructions indicated VERY easy to find. We had seven riders...all taking a turn at reading the directions (after we parked) and were unable to make them work. We finally gave up trying to find the trail (after some nice aerobic road riding) and came back to the vehicle. We then ferried up the road to the trailhead and took the trail DOWN!!! Definately a fast go-down. Fun but anticlimatic after having so much trouble trying to follow the directions.
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