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Tysasi: A familiar stretch of highway 101
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Tysasi: I'm not taking the Little Nestucca River Road today
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Tysasi: Ah, Slab Creek Road, how I have missed you
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Tysasi: A "road closed" sign greets me as I turn up Slab Creek Road
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Tysasi: And MORE new pavement replacing a mile of potholes of death
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Tysasi: The road gets more rudimentary as it winds up onto Cascade Head
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Tysasi: Road closed? Let's go and see
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Tysasi: Yup, the road is closed
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Tysasi: The distant blurry elevation sign at the top of the pass (752 feet)
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Tysasi: Another sign that we're at the top of the pass
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Tysasi: Three Rocks Road
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Tysasi: The lower reaches of NF 12
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Tysasi: Cattle and horses in a field along NF 12
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Tysasi: NF 12 climbs up into the forest
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Tysasi: The other section of Slab Creek Road
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Tysasi: The obligatory stretch of gravel road
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Tysasi: The summit of NF 12, and a ROAD CLOSED sign
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Tysasi: The sideroad here seemed much more substantial when I was chasing Theo & Asta through the rain at night
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Tysasi: And here's the other end of the washout
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Tysasi: Culvert pieces and the spoil pile from the excavations
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Tysasi: The end of Slab Creek Road; the beginning of NF 12
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Tysasi: The info control bridge from the Oregon Coast 600
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Tysasi: Conifers and forest road
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Tysasi: The road curves through lush greenery
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Tysasi: A contractors truck waits for me to pass on the gravel section
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Tysasi: Sunlight as I coast downhill
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Tysasi: Blue sky and marine layer
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Tysasi: An amusing elevation profile