After catching and releasing a brown trout while kayak fishing up in the Washington backcountry, a bald eagle, attracted by all the fish splashing, swoops out of a tree and grabs a fish right in front of the kayak. I’ll be posting more kayak fishing videos and photos, as well as more mountain biking stuff … Read more
After a pretty good day of fishing yesterday, I decided to get up at 3:15AM and catch the dawn patrol today. Good call. The fishing was off the Richter. I caught at least fifty trout, and that’s no BS. Browns, cutthroats and brookies; biting like they were dying of hunger. At times, I got hooked … Read more
Finally, the snow has melted and the rain has stopped. The lower elevation rivers are still running high and the lowland lakes are kind of muddy so I headed to the mountains. It is still chilly in the morning and the water temp is in the low fifties but the water is crystal clear, skies … Read more
It’s Eddy Merckx’s 65th birthday today; the greatest cyclist of all time. If he could ride 30,000 miles a year, I can get out and ride up and down the local mountain. Almost the first day of summer but it seems more like the first day of spring. The sun was in and out of … Read more
Finally, a nice couple of days to go riding, so up into the hills we go. Even though it’s the middle of June and 75 degrees, there are still patches of snow. Still plenty of snow up on Mt. Hood as well. With all the snow and warm weather, avalanche danger is pretty high. No … Read more
The record rainfall here in the PacNW has really put the damper on late spring and early summer. Seventy degree, dry days have yet to come in any quantity so whenever the rain stops you have to take advantage of it and get out there. When the rain is heavy, it takes two or three … Read more
When people in the PacNW complain about the rain, you know it’s really raining. Record rain in May, first week of June looks to be all rain, kind of sucks for everyone who likes to be outside. All the more reason when there are a couple nice days, you get out there! The rain makes … Read more