The cemetery gates are open. They always are between sunrise and sunset. To get from the Sellwood Bridge up to Terwilliger, a popular cycling route, you climb through the River View Cemetery. If you stick to the marked route, identified by circles and bike figures and arrows pained on the switchbacks, then you get an average 4.3% grade instead of the 8.0% you would get if you came up Taylors Ferry. On this day, piles of slushy snow and translucent ice in tree shadow keep the blacktop wet. I pass three others and settle in to a comfortable gear, downshifting […]