Completion of the Cascade Loop: Winthrop, Wenatchee, Leavenworth to Everett

One of the many rides completed this summer of our year 2016.

We completed the first leg of the loop on Highway 20 over the North Cascade National Park from Everett to Winthrop 2 days before. After spending a day wondering through this small eastern Washington town we take off to complete the loop.  

Winthrop my boyhood hunting grounds.   It used to be a sleepy cow and hunting town but in the course of 35 plus years it has been yuppified.   It is now a tourist destination filled with rafters, mountain bikers and believe it or not motorcyclist.  It seems that this ride we are on has a name the Cascade Loop and from the amount of bikers that we see it seems pretty popular.  

Now we must finish it up riding from Winthrop to Wenatchee then over the Cascades this time via Highway 2, back to Everett.  So after fixing a seat malfunction on Terri's motorcycle it is off to Twisp a short 8 miles south for breakfast at the Branding Iron Cafe.

This is a ride following a bunch of rivers.  The Methow, then the Columbia and finally the Wenatchee.  With long slow turns that eat up the miles through rough mountainous desert country it is a kaleidoscope of scenery. We pass through Wenatchee on are way to lunch in Leavenworth following the Wenatchee River.  Leavenworth is an old world German Village so we have a Wurst and German Potato Salad Lunch.

We are now back in the Cascades making our way to Stevens Pass and the long downhill to Everett.  Its a series of small mountain towns before we make it back to where we started another Washington State Motorcycle Adventure completed.