2026 Sierra Cascades bicycle tour
Update July 22: Finished early due to wildfires and smoke (see below)
Update July 17: Changing the finish line to Klamath Falls, OR (see below)
Done (for this year, anyway)!
Starting in mid June the end of June we will be riding from Seattle, WA, to Nevada City, CA,
including the first three sections of the Adventure Cyclcing Association's
Sierra Cascades route, a route that generally parallels the Pacific Crest Trail
and which will return us to our place in Nevada City, CA.
If you are interested in following our progress, you can check out our SPOT map📍 or follow our activites on RwGPS or Strava. Reach out to us here if you would like to join us on a portion of the ride, riding bikes with us or meeting up with us along the way.
- Megan and Eric
Updates
July 22: Finished early due to wildfires and smoke
We are home. There was smoke and ash in the air when we arrived in Sisters, OR. We rode the 30-ish miles to Bend where we checked what fires were burning and where and what the outlook was if we were to continue on our route to Klamath Falls. We likely would have continued riding in heavy smoke and there was more lightning in the weather forecast. We opted to catch a regional bus from Bend to Klamath Falls and then catch an Amtrak train to Oakland, CA. It was a bummer to cut the ride short but neither of us was interested in turning the ride into a suffer-fest so we feel like we made the right decision.
July 17: Changing the finish line to Klamath Falls, OR
We decided to cut the tour short. Our original plan was to ride back to our place in Nevada City. However, our tour start date was delayed by a couple weeks and we need to be back by 8/10 for a family visit. My current ETA to Nevada City only gives us 2 days of buffer; if we were delayed for any reason then we would miss the family visit. So, we are going to continue riding the Sierra Cascades route through Crater Lake and then deviate to Klamath Falls where there's an Amtrak station. We'll take the train back to Oakland, CA. That should give us about two weeks to get back to Nevada City to prep for the family visit. It is kind of a bummer to shortcut but this will allow us to be more relaxed about riding the McKenzie Pass and Crater lake.