Powell Butte

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 23:59:59 -800

Bright and early Saturday morning, I woke up, hauled the bike out of the
garage for the first time since Thursday, and pedalled off in the direction
of Eliza's house in Sellwood. That was a surprisingly long 6.9 mile ride,
though pretty much a straight shot southwards on 45th/43rd/42nd/41st from
NE Davis to SE Bybee. To my great surprise, most of the southward shot made
a good workout, as the route is primarily *uphill*. The reward, of course,
is that Bybee is very sharply downhill from 39th all the way to Reed College,
some 15 blocks away. Following my newly found bike paths through Sellwood,
I navigated my way over to the lookout from SE 13th Ave over to Eliza's.