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The 2010 Restore Our Waters Cascade Spawning Cycle offers several self-guided, out-and-back, flat routes of two to 12 miles, suitable for riders of all ages and abilities.
 Lake Washington Boulevard will be closed to vehicle traffic between Mount Baker Beach and Seward Park, and we are offering a “Salmon Smarts” game that riders can play along the route.
Salmon Smarts is an easy way to test your knowledge and learn something new about our city’s iconic salmon. Stop by the Cascade Bicycle Club tent in Seward Park for your game card, then visit stops along the route and answer questions for a chance to win fun prizes.
Because this route is self-guided, there is no official start or end time - just show up any time between 10 a.m. and1 p.m. to join the fun. We’ll have Bert the Salmon there to greet you at Seward Park, plus kids’ games and an all-day, low-cost helmet sale.
Salmon & Bicycling
 What do salmon and biking have to do with one-another? Our urban shorelines support various stages of the salmon’s lifecycle, and the local waters provide vital habitat as they migrate to their original spawning streams. Metals, oil and grease from cars run off our roads when it rains. These pollutants can damage the ability of fish to smell their way back to their spawning grounds.
Using bikes for transportation and reducing car trips can lower the levels of pollutants, particularly copper and zinc, that enter local waters. Seattle, once a forested watershed, is now full of hard surfaces, roads, parking lots and buildings. When it rains, all that water rushes into the storm drains and eventually ends up in our creeks, streams and lakes.
Working together, we can remove invasive species, plant trees and native vegetation, and reduce the run-off that carries those pollutants. Green Seattle Partnership, one of the event partners, engages thousands of volunteers to work in local parks to improve the habitat surrounding our urban waterways.
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