{"id":189,"date":"2020-07-17T01:50:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T01:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/?p=189"},"modified":"2020-07-17T02:02:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T02:02:12","slug":"mt-amabalis-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Mt Amabilis Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">38 miles\/2000 ft elevation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After writing <em>Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer<\/em> the prolific adventure travel writer Tim Cahill escaped to the outdoors in order to separate himself from the dark world he had spent so many months inhabiting.&nbsp; With so much bad, sad and disappointed new lately, I too felt the need to escape to the outdoors: go to a place where real is real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a recent ride Randy, Alex, Brian and myself came across a road in need of exploration.&nbsp; We had just finished the primitive road portion on the south west shore of Lake Kachess and had hit Sparks Road when we noticed a right turn leading to an underpass crossing beneath Interstate 90. &nbsp;I made a mental note to return sooner rather than later.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My opportunity came three days later.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_10721-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191\" width=\"374\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_10721-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_10721-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_10721-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_10721-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_10721-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><figcaption>Too tempting not to explore<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My wife Melony and I were putting finish on a bookcase up at our cabin; I had two hours between coats, so I decided to go see what happens on the other side of that underpass.&nbsp; The primitive road had dried out considerably over the past three days, and I made good time to Sparks Road.&nbsp; Inspection of the Gazetteer showed a possible road that possibly intersects U Fish road but within the first two hundred yards I encountered a large PRIVATE ROAD \u2013 NO TRESPASSING sign.&nbsp; The road surface was groomed gravel, and I was tempted to act like I hadn\u2019t seen the sign, but I\u2019m mighty uncomfortable trespassing on private land, so after a quarter mile I turned around in hopes of finding Option B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I neared the underpass I noticed a small double track trail leading eastbound into the woods.&nbsp; Well there you have it: Option B.&nbsp; After three log crossings I hit a paved road and before I put the hammer down heading east I looked over my shoulder to see a sign pointing to the Ironhorse Trail.&nbsp; I turned around and followed the signs through some magically scenic doug fir groves until I hit the Ironhorse on the western edge of the steel bridge over Lake Easton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_10741-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192\" width=\"389\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_10741-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_10741-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_10741-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_10741-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_10741-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><figcaption>Beautiful route leading to Ironhorse<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, comfortably back on the trail, I pointed my front tire west and headed back to Hyak followed by the short ride back to the cabin.&nbsp; The underpass cut-through is a nice alternative to the road miles required to cross the interstate at Easton.&nbsp; This is a nice route for folks not wanting to do a lot of climbing \u2013 the initial climb is short and steep, but after that one ascent all other elevation gains are very gradual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Route details can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/3748591813\">https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/3748591813<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>38 miles\/2000 ft elevation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gravel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}