Dealing with record heat and dry and dusty conditions, it’s time for more hot summer mountain biking from the Cascade Mountains. The conditions are not ideal, but the way things are going, there may be no riding at all if the fire situation keeps getting worse, as it probably will. Even though it’s hot, the … Read more
The continuing unseasonably hot weather is making for hot and dusty MTB trail riding here in the Cascade Mountains of the PacNW. Everything is bone dry making for extreme fire danger. There are already a number of large wildfires burning in the PacNW and the “fire season” has barely begun. Fire season is all year … Read more
As the hot weather continues in the PacNW, it gets drier and drier and the risk for wildfire is as extreme as it gets. The mountain snowpack is melting at a record rate. Seasonal streams and creeks are already dry and some mountain springs have been reduced to a trickle. This is all with a … Read more
It’s been about a month since we transitioned from kayak fishing in the US desert southwest to mountain biking on our local trails in the Cascade Mountains. It was supposed to go from kayak fishing on the Colorado River to kayak fishing on the Columbia River, but this area is going through “them changes” on … Read more
As you can probably see by now, there have been some changes here on the watermanatwork.com Blog as well as the watermanatwork.com website. The entire website, including the Blog, has been updated to HTTPS, a more secure internet protocol. There are redirects in place, but if you’d like to change bookmarks, the correct URL is … Read more
We’ve spent a good deal of time mountain biking in the Cascade Mountains this summer. Almost everything is closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. We’re lucky to have a place to ride away from the sickness and madness of civilization. The leaves are turning colors, rain is more frequent and soon the mountains will be … Read more
As is the case just about everywhere in the United States, the coronavirus pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on daily life here in the PacNW. The high infection rate large population centers of Portland and Seattle call the shots so the entire states of Washington and Oregon are basically shut down. The low infection … Read more
We spent a few windy and rainy days in town while we geared up for more mountain biking adventures in the Cascade Mountains. Kayak fishing has all but been blown out of summer due to the seemingly endless wind and pandemic restrictions. Even though this is one of the windiest places in the continental US, … Read more
One thing for certain about the Cascade Mountains is that things are constantly changing. After a few mostly sunny days, the clouds rolled in and the weather went from mostly sunny to completely overcast. Not a bad thing because it made the days a bit cooler and the nights a bit warmer. The forest animals … Read more
After a few days taking care of business and the kayak fishing opportunities again being zero, we headed to another part of the local Cascade Mountains to check out some different trails. We travel light so setting up camp doesn’t take long at all and we are ready to ride! We were stoked to find … Read more