Having missed seeing a covered bridge a few days earlier - and thus accused of not taking time to smell the flowers - I was determined to not miss the one early in day six's ride. I'd have to have been blind! The route was over a section of the Aufderheide Memorial Drive, one of Oregon's scenic byways, and again, a road I'd never traveled. It climbed gradually for the first 34 miles, paralleling the north fork of the middle fork of the Willamette River before a sharp three-mile rise to the ridge's summit. The downhill was another good one, along the south fork of the McKenzie River, past Cougar Reservoir down to the McKenzie River and the small community of Rainbow.