Tour des Trees coming to Oregon in 2012: Ride your bike, plant a tree

A week-long bicycle tour that celebrates the common tree and raises money for tree research is rolling into Oregon next year.

It marks only the fourth time that the Tour des Trees bicycle tour has visited the Pacific Northwest. The inaugural ride rolled from Seattle to Oakland in 1992, then started in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in 1997 and Seattle again in 2002.

Next year's Stihl Tour des Trees (Aug. 5-11, 2012) encompasses a 585-mile loop that includes Pacific Coast rain forests and the central high deserts. When they aren't bicycling, tree lovers will be planting trees or offering tree-education programs to kids.

While the warning "On your left!" is a common refrain ....

Source: http://www.bikingbis.com/blog/_archives/2011/11/16/4940614.html

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