Yesterday I finished editing, revising, and transferring the riding routes. They are now in both our GPS's. Parts of the routes are highlighted on National Forest Maps and in the Big Map. I wish there was a print function with the Ride with GPS website. But I understand the development team is working on that function, just not in time for me to use it. :(

All the routes thus far can be viewed from the Routes buttons on the navigation bar above.

This coming weekend we will be doing a dry run with all our gear on our bikes. Our plan is to ride as much gravel as possible to a state park that borders a lake and camp overnight. Given the three-digit temps and humidity, I probably will not wear the gear planned for Oregon. I also am excited to try out the new gadget: a Kodak zi8 pocket video camera. It won't do duty as a helmet cam, but capturing some video on our trips will be a fun experiment.

The map book arrived Friday and it occupied my lunch and hours on the commuter train. Sunday we watched (for the umpteenth time) "Get Lost: Oregon", a movie about eight riders on the Oregon Backcountry Discovery Trail. They rode from OR/CA border to OR/WA border (Route 5). We won't have time to do that in its entirety, but the former plan has now been altered to include part of Route 5.

As we watched the video, I had the map on my lap. We paused the video a few times so I could locate several points on the actual map.

This is going to be way fun.