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Paradise-Backbone-Packwood-Skate Creek  
by BillP

The way points of this bicycle route:

Kautz Creek

Right turn on SR 706 (to Paradise)

Longmire

SS on SR 706 to Paradise; food and water on right

Cougar Rock

Campground on left

First big hairpin

Nisqually River Bridge

Ricksecker Point

View road on right; returns to main highway

View road rejoins highway

Narada Falls

Right to stay on SR 706; left to go to Paradise.

Inspiration Point

Reflection Lake

Begin Stevens Canyon Descent

Louise Lake

Caution: Grates across road ahead.

Upper Box Canyon

Bathrooms

Low point, Stevens Canyon

Begin climbing again

Backbone Ridge

The top, for now.

Caution, poor pavement

Grove of the Patriarchs

Water on left

JCT SR 123

Turn right on SR 123 (downhill)

Ohanepecosh

Ranger station on right

Bear right at intersection with US 12

Packwood

Right on Skate Creek Road

Food on left

Start climbing again

Enter river valley; climb

Stay straight at intersection

Skate Creek High Point

or thereabouts; side road to left

Bear left to stay on Skate Creek Road

Bear right to stay on Skate Creek Road

Right turn on SR 706 to go to Nisqually Entrance

Nisqually Entrance

Kautz Creek Trailhead

Parking lot on right

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