We did a shuttle ride on the Alpine Trail outside of Oakridge with Dad.
It’s a long, long climb up a gravel road to get to the trailhead, so most people arrange their own shuttle or use a commercial bike shuttle.
The Alpine Trail is nationally known, due to its length (15.4 miles), descent (3,400’), and smooth, flowy ride.
The trail is intermediate, with only a couple of very short steep sections.
There are virtually no rocks in the trail, which is always a shock for us riders from Tahoe.
The ride is in the trees practically the whole way except for this clearing with wildflowers in the sun.
There’s a fork in the trail about a mile from the bottom, and somehow we lost Dad, as he left the car at a different trail’s end west of the usual end point.
The normal trail end is at the Office Covered Bridge across the North Fork of the Willamette River in Westfir.