Cougar-Issaquah-Sammamish

My objective was to simulate the first day of the upcoming Arizona ride, so I planned out a 100 mile ride with nearly 10,000 vertical feet. I came close. Randy, Gary, Clint, and Kevin were along on most of the first half and agreed that it was a pretty good route. We wound our way over to Hilltop, then Pinnacle, then Cougar Mtn Drive, all in the general direction of Cougar Mountain. Then we did Squak Mountain. At that point the others split off and I headed north and east to do a loop around Beaver Lake and Sammamish, which was the reverse from a part of the Randonneur route in February. On the way back, I went up the "zoo hill" from Newport Way. To round out the 100 miles, did Mercer Island and followed the I90 lid to downtown, and came back via Dravus and Fremont.