The article is based upon feedback from the sport-riders down around Helens. Yes, I’m sure they have a bit of a bias, but better safe than sorry. I myself have gotten the evil eye from the local gendarmarie even while creeping through town doing 24 in the 25 zone in 2nd gear to keep the noise down.

In fact, I’ve been hearing from other Seattle riders that it’s not uncommon that WSP will time groups of sport-riders between Randle and Morton and write up the whole lot of them for their average speed. Not too difficult since some of those folks average about 80-90mph between those towns.

Morton PD is very much like Twisp PD and just about every other Washington small town. You need to make sure you’re going 1-2 under the limit when you go through.

Thankfully, gas pricing has gotten a little more reasonable priced there when I went through yesterday. It was about the same pricing as Eatonville and Orting and only 6-7 cents more per gallon than Sumner.

The Mexican restaurant by the highway (Plaza Jalisco) is still pretty good too.

I’ll see if I can get this article updated. It’s been quite awhile since I wrote that and while the road hasn’t changed, some nicer photos would be good.