[Leica] OT: Pacific Coast Highway

[jcyleung8 at shaw.ca (Joe Leung)]

Peter and Greg,

I drove US 101/Oregon coast 3 times all the way down to San Francisco and
enjoyed the beautiful scenery very much. If I had the time, I'll do it
again. So Greg, take Peter's advice and go do it. You'll regret it if you
don't.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jcyleung8=shaw.ca@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jcyleung8=shaw.ca@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of Peter
Klein
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 8:58 PM
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Pacific Coast Highway


Greg:  I'm not sure why all these California Chauvanists refuse to
recognize anything between Big Sur and the Canadian border.  Allow me to
suggest that the Oregon coast is absolutely breathtaking, too.  Very green,
very spectacular.  The southern part is more open, the northern part has a
lot of forested headlands.  There are stretches of flat beach, sand dunes
in the central part, and many crags and sea stacks to catch your eye.   I
spend 4 days camping up and down the Oregon coast in June 1980 (driving
through a bit of Mt. St. Helens' ash along the way!), and I've never
forgotten that trip.  It was during my impoverished and cameraless
twentysomething period, so no pictures.

I would stay on US 101 all the way to the Columbia River.  Then, if you
want to take in the Olympic Peninsula, continue north over the bridge at
Astoria, go around the peninsula.  Be sure to take in at least the short
nature trail in the Hoh rain forest, and Lake Crescent.  Go up Hurricane
Ridge (near Port Angeles) if you have time.  The take the Kingston/Edmonds
ferry to the north Seattle suburbs, then head north on I-5.

If you want to skip the Olympic Peninsula, take US. 30 from Astoria, follow
the south bank of the Columbia to Kelso/Longview, cross the river there and
take I-5 north to Seattle to Vancouver.  If you want to visit Portland, you
can cut inland on US 26 near Cannon Beach.

While fog and rain is possible anywhere anytime on the Pacific coast,
Oregon does not have nearly the strong summer fog-sucking effect so beloved
by San Franciscans.  I've always had good luck in the summer, with any fog
burning off by 11:00 or noon.  And the north Oregon headlands in patchy fog
and sun are sights to be savored.

Let me know when/if you're going to come through Seattle.  Is this a trip
for the whole family, or just Mom and Dad?

--Peter

GREG LORENZO wrote:
> >We're thinking of driving up to Canada from Phoenix mid July along the
> US west coast. I've never travelled the Pacific Coast Highway (Highway
> 1?) and would appreciate it if someone on the List who has made this
> drive could provide me with some pointers and advice on where is the best
> place to get on it how far north it goes?
> >
> >I suspect that we will go west from Phoenix via Las Vegas and possibly
> San Francisco. We should have 5 days or so to clear the US/Canada Border.


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