Best Run Ever Run

I wake up in the Winchester Bay Inn – owned by the same family for over 30 years – and head into the pre-dawn. It’s that bright, almost neon blue light you get in wet environments on cloudy dawns. North of Winchester Bay and Reedsport, lives what I consider the greatest six-mile coastal run ever created. I loop it every time I pass here and it is always empty and amazing. It’s got wet, dark, soft spruce forests, massive dunes, stubby beach forest, and a mile of wide, isolated wide-open beach before it climbs back into the dunes and through another few miles of forest single-track. I’ve never seen another person on it. Buy me a beer and I’ll tell you exactly how to find it.