Bicycle Touring & More. Other outdoor activity

If you ever travel to the San Juan Islands in the Puget Sound to ride your bicycle, you'll undoubtedly hear that Lopez Island is the flattest of the bunch.

I'm here to tell you that, at least for bicyclists, it ain't necessarily so.

My son and I recently took a 30-mile loop around Lopez Island as part of a two-day benefit bike ride. At the end of the previous day's 30 miles around San Juan Island, quite a few people said the Lopez Island trip would be much flatter. ...