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	<title>Motorcycle Roads NorthWest &#187; river</title>
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	<description>Exploring the Asphalt Ribbons of the Pacific Northwest (Founded 2003)</description>
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		<title>Manila Creek Road (Peter Dan Road)</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/692</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/692#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 16:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Puget Sound riders often lament that there&#8217;s no good places to go ride that aren&#8217;t completely riddled with speed traps, but perhaps what&#8217;s needed is a new place to ride. Manila Creek Road is just such a place. While it&#8217;s not 80 miles of uninterrupted twisties like FS25, you&#8217;re not going to see much traffic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Route 86 &#8216;Baker-Copperfield Highway&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/686</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/686#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leading out of the Baker City, Oregon Route 86 is the most direct route out to the Hell&#8217;s Canyon area. And as one might surmise from the maps of the roadway, it might seem a bit too straight and a bit too flat if one&#8217;s gotten spoiled by the Central Oregon roads in the previous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunrise Park Road, Mount Rainier National Park</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/108</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/108#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Twisties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western WA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunrise Park Road Road to Sunrise Ampitheater The Road to Sunrise Ampitheatre is extremely twisty and challenging. The paving also leaves a lot of be desired with large frost heaves and sunken sections of pavement. Be quite careful when riding this road due to these concerns and the astonishingly heavy tourist traffic in the afternoons. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Route 66 (Ashland to Klamath Falls)</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/49</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/49#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Twisties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canyon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This road provides a excellent path from Ashland to Klamath Falls across the South Oregon Cascades. It&#8217;s very scenic and passes by Emigrant Reservoir ascending three 4,000+ foot mountain passes. These fantastic passes include Hayden Mountain 15 miles or so west of Keno. There are a number of very good roads that intersect with Oregon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon State Route 218 &#8216;Shaniko-Fossil Highway&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/666</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/666#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eastern Oregon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia has an excellent description of Oregon Route 218. OR 218 is a fairly short rural highway. Its western terminus is in Wasco County, in the ghost town of Shaniko at U.S. Route 97. The road is very windy and hilly over its entire 43-mile (69 km) length and is a popular destination for motorcyclists. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Route 207 (Ruggs &#8211; Mitchell)</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/90</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/90#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another fantastic Central Oregon route, here we have over 80 miles of nearly unbroken sweepers and hairpins in the Ruggs &#8211; Mitchell segment of Oregon Route 207. As this route does one of those strange Oregon multi-plexing things where it forms an &#8216;X&#8217; across North Central oregon with Route 19, I&#8217;ll deal with this in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon State Route 402 &#8216;Kimberly-Long Creek Highway&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/152</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/152#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2007, I wrote the following and I think that it bears some further discussion: Long known by its name, the newly minted Oregon State Route 402, is considered by some Portland sport-riders to be a destination road in its own right. It&#8217;s a mere 35 miles long and links the towns of Kimberly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Route 224 &#8216;Clackamas Highway&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/678</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/678#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 17:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sweepers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[boats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This road is somewhat &#8220;schizophrenic&#8221; in the modern parlance. Every few miles you&#8217;ve suddenly got a completely different kind of road in front of you. While I waus staying in Portland with some old and new friends, I decided to take a weekend jaunt out into the Oregon Cascades to see how far I got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historic Columbia River Highway</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/677</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/677#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 05:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Western Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[B&B]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way back in the opening decades of the 20th Century, an amazing road was designed by the Oregon State Highway Department and highway engineer Samuel C. Lancaster. An fantastic routing full of viewpoints, waterfalls, tunnels, and curves of all shapes and sizes. It was described by John Arthur Elliot: The ideals sought were not the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington State Route 530 &#8216;Pioneer Highway&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/8</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/8#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pioneer Highway. A nice curvy specimen of roadcraft and an apt name as well, since the road curves here and there all over the Stillaguamish River valley. The pavement is a little rough and appears to be surprisingly light-duty for what is a state highway, after all. There&#8217;s significant bumps along the road and small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vantage Highway</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/143</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/143#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eastern WA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, don&#8217;t act all surprised that I&#8217;ve posted yet another old highway alignment. This one however is rather nice and much twistier than the parallel Interstate 90 a few miles to the south. This one is quite a bit of fun, actually. It winds along the valleys that lead down to the Columbia River and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho Route 13 &#8216;Harpster Grade&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/31</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/31#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a really neat grade. It doesn&#8217;t have the magnificence and grandeur of Whitebird, but what you lack in scale you get in rhythm. Harpster Grade seems to almost glissade down the side of a ridge. The corners are all about the same radius and angle of directional rotation, which sets them up very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kirby-Mayview Road / Lower Deadman Road</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/25</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/25#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a truly fantastic road. On one end of the road, you have a fairly well-maintained US Highway (US Route 12), and on the other you have one of the Snake River&#8217;s more fascinating civil engineering projects, the Lower Granite Dam. The Kirby-Mayview Road departs US 12 at an acutely-angled intersection a few miles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington State Route 142</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/71</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/71#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eastern WA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[river]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington State Route 142 is one of those odd little rural highways that were carved out of the native landscape to serve some of the small and medium sized town in the area. The section from Goldendale to the first set of twisties is about 8 miles long, but once you&#8217;ve got the straight section [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yachats River Road</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/628</link>
		<comments>http://www.roadsnw.com/rnw/628#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Western Oregon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the Yachats River back up into the Oregon Coastal hills is this eponymous little road. It starts out inside the also eponymous little town of Yachats right off US 101 with a funky uphill and acute-angled intersection that goes right up the side of the hill. Once you&#8217;re a few blocks in and getting [...]]]></description>
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