Nick Bull updated 03496 Bainbridge-Point No Point, 101 km.
In other news, reconstruction of the Spruce Railroad Trail around the north side of Lake Crescent was completed.
Registration to ride permanents in 2021 is now open. The registration link is on the Permanents page in your RUSA account.
If you are not registered for 2020, registering now includes registration for the remainder of December 2020. See this page to get started.
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These routes were added this week:
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The Snoqualmie Valley Trail is closed at a bridge south of Carnation until March 2021. Here are two suggested detours. The shorter one requires riding on WA-203 for about a mile, which may not be a pleasant experience. The longer detour takes River Rd and other mostly quiet roads to Fall City, and packs all the trail’s climbing into the last mile!
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This week 00918 Seattle to Portland, 314 km, was added thanks to Jeff Loomis’ work. Since this route was fairly popular I am attempting to get the reversed Portland to Seattle route added as a new route. That will save everyone wanting to ride PtS from doing the work themselves to reverse the route.
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This week #01233 Tacoma-Port Orchard-Tacoma was revised. The direction of the route was reversed to eliminate some unsafe left turns, and portions were moved to quieter parallel roads.
A control was added to #03387 U Village-Carnation in the Redmond-Kirkland area to provide a more convenient starting point for Eastside denizens.
In other news, reconstruction of the Spruce Railroad Trail portion of the Olympic Discovery Trail along the north side of Lake Crescent is almost complete. It should open to the public this month. This will provide a much safer and less stressful route around Lake Crescent than US-101 along the south side of the lake. https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/spruce-railroad-trail-refurbished/
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Since the last route update, these routes have been added:
Route 01015 Queen Anne-Everett-Sammamish was slightly altered in downtown Seattle.
And south of Arlington, the hazardous Centennial Trail railroad crossing has been much improved.
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With the growing number of revived permanent routes, it can be difficult to notice recently added routes on the overview maps. Since the last update one route has been added:
Additionally, controls were added to 03505 Snoqualmie Valley Trail Run in Carnation and North Bend to provide alternate starting locations.
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With the growing number of revived permanent routes, it can be difficult to notice recently added routes on the overview maps. Going forward I intend to publicize routes added in the preceding week or so.
This week two routes were added:
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Beginning October 1, RUSA will allow permanents up to 600 km. A link to an overview map of 300 km and longer routes has been added to the SIR Permanents page. Initially these local routes are available:
02576 Lake Forest Park-Big Lake. 300 km. This route was the most frequently ridden of SIR’s 300 km routes, with 26 completions, accounting for 27% of 300 km rides in the last four years of the old perms program.
00751 Bremerton-Elma-Rainier-Seattle. 300 km. This is likely the flattest 300 km route in SIR’s collection. Most of it is on pleasant low-traffic rural roads and bike trails. If you live on the Seattle side of the sound, riding it in the Bremerton to Seattle direction means you don’t risk missing the last ferry home.
00592 Bainbridge-Hurricane Ridge-Bainbridge. 306 km. This was formerly a sub-300 km route. Modernizing the route to use the Olympic Discovery Trail and avoid the frequently crowded section of Hurricane Ridge Rd below the entrance station pushed the distance up to 306 km. Cap your season with this route!
No 400 or 600 km routes are ready yet.
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I have tried to pull together everything you need to know about the revived Permanents program. On the SIR home page select the menu item Rides>Permanents.
Also, Yogy Namara has come up with better maps of Permanents, linked on the updated page. The maps on the SIR Ride with GPS home page announced in the previous blog post have been replaced with these maps. The advantage of these maps is they pull routes from the RUSA route library, rather than SIR’s. The new maps always display the official version of routes, rather than depending on SIR’s library being synchronized with RUSA’s.
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