Video is optimized for broadband access. Wide-angle lenses used to record video straighten the curves out. For a truer sense of twistiness watch the mirror dip .
A powerful instinct drives salmon upriver to spawn. Motorcyclists are driven
by a similar primeval urge when we find a road that tracks a twisting waterway
as closely as this DH tracks the serpentine Klickitat River up from the
Columbia. Better than average curves on superior Pavement, pretty good
Engineering and a lack of traffic all combine to make this route with fairly
low-key Scenery one you won’t want to let get away. True, you’ll have to work
a little harder in the upper reaches where you have to fishladder up the
Little Klickitat River with the help of only a single lane of asphalt. And the
straight bit on the plateau at the Goldendale end isn’t exactly ecstasy in a
spawning bed. The wild salmon are disappearing from the Pacific Northwest, one
more victim of our own species’ inexorable growth. But after you ride this
road, you too will feel good enough to spawn ’til you die.
