Pacific Northwest info anyone??

[mnmtb]

Hello:

I am relocating from Minneapolis to Seattle and was wondering if anyone has any info, routes, etc on 2-3 night bikepacking routes in the Pacific Northwest.  I know th ePCT is off limits but if anyone has any experience out in this area I sure would appreciate if you could pass it along.

Thanks in advance,
Zip

[juanesunpescado]

my buddy Craig started this thread a while back. Some good discussion and ideas. Little in the way of routes people have done. http://www.bikepacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,2878.0.html

I've ridden the iron horse trail from north bend to Wanapum dam, sleeping under a trestle in Thorp. It was fun but pretty monotonous by the standards of other routes posted here.

I hope to do a trip this fall near St Helens that would incorporate the strawberry mountain trail, a bit of fire road, Plains of Abraham trail, more road, and the lewis river trail. not sure how to make it a loop without a ton of pavement, so might do one way with a shuttle.

-tj

[verslowrdr]

I'm in central WA and most folks will run out of time and/or juice before there's an end of trails to beat around on. 30 miles unloaded is considered a big day out here though, and depending what you get tangled up in there are some 18-20 mile routes that take 7 or 8 hours even by pretty strong riders.

For starters, download the ORV maps http://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/okawen/recreation/climbing/recarea/?recid=57117&actid=37
Anything open to motos is fair game, just double check those red lines as many of them don't allow bikes.

There's a lot more unmarked stuff out in the west fork Teanaway, but you kinda have to have someone who's familiar with the area get you started. I have a buddy who took off w/ friends from Roslyn up over the ridge into the 'way and wandered around in that drainage for ~3 days before they finally headed back.

There's also more trails and green dot roads out of Joe Watt/LT Murray just SE of Taneum, but given the size and terrain of Taneum + Manastash + Naches already... we'll maybe see ya in a week, lol.