{"id":403,"date":"2021-02-27T00:31:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T00:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2021-02-27T00:31:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T00:31:53","slug":"two-outta-three-aint-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Two Outta Three Ain&#8217;t Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Trevor, Paul, Larry and I rode from Rattlesnake Lake to Tekoa on the Ironhorse and what was then known as the John Wayne Pioneer Trial we encountered half a dozen obstacles: three minor and three major.\u00a0 The three major obstacles were detouring around the closed Renslow Bridge which crosses I-90 east of Ellensburg, crossing the Columbia River without the aid of the fenced off trestle at Beverly and crossing the private land at Cow Creek south of Ritzville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2013, our detour around the Renslow Bridge was to simply ride overland in an easterly direction; a plan that put us in the backyard of a partially burned-out meth lab \u2013 a route I wouldn\u2019t recommend.&nbsp; With the railroad bridge at Beverly being closed we were forced to cross the Columbia on the no-shoulder I-90 bridge at Vantage \u2013 once in a lifetime is more than enough for that.&nbsp; With respect to crossing Cow Creek, hmmm I can\u2019t really remember how we did that, yeah that\u2019s it I don\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The three minor obstacles: active railway east of Crab Creek, partially collapsed tunnel at Rock Lake and the Tekoa trestle are all easily and safely bypassed and create no major impediment to the cross-state rider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Beverly-Bridge-1024x420.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Beverly-Bridge-1024x420.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Beverly-Bridge-300x123.jpg 300w, http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Beverly-Bridge-768x315.jpg 768w, http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Beverly-Bridge.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Bridge across Columbia at Beverly (from palousetocascadestrail.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am happy to see that two of the three major obstacles are currently being eliminated.&nbsp; Work on the Renslow Bridge is nearly complete and is scheduled to open to non-motorized traffic next month (March 2021) <a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/2494300\/all-over-the-map-iconic-renslow-trestle-over-i-90-set-to-open-to-public-in-march\/\">All Over The Map: Iconic Renslow Trestle over I-90 set to open to public in March (mynorthwest.com)<\/a>.&nbsp; Rehabilitation of the Beverly bridge has been funded with an estimated completion date of September 21, 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/palousetocascadestrail.org\/beverly-bridge.html\">Beverly Bridge &#8211; Columbia River Crossing &#8211; Palouse to Cascades Trail Coalition<\/a>.&nbsp; The remedy for the Cow Creek situation won\u2019t be as straightforward as rehabilitating an existing trestle as the trestle no longer exists.&nbsp; Absent some serious cooperation from the local landowner I suspect that the detour up to Ritzville will be a permanent part of the PTCT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh well two out of three ain\u2019t bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Trevor, Paul, Larry and I rode from Rattlesnake Lake to Tekoa on the Ironhorse and what was then known as the John Wayne Pioneer Trial we encountered half a dozen obstacles: three minor and three major.\u00a0 The three major obstacles were detouring around the closed Renslow Bridge which crosses I-90 east of Ellensburg, crossing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","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\/403","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=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}