With all the smoke from fires here in the Columbia Gorge making bike riding uncomfortable, if not hazardous and many of the riding areas closed due to the extreme fire danger, it was off to the Tillamook State Forest, a temperate rainforest in the Coastal Mountains of Western Oregon. These are local trails for our … Read more
Finally got back on the bike and on the trail. Because of extreme fire danger, most of the lower elevation trails and riding areas are closed. Have to head towards the coast or up in the mountains. We headed up above Carson, WA into the Gifford Pinchot National Forest to Old Man Pass and Falls … Read more
Mountain bikes with 29″ wheels have been out for some time now, they are no longer just marketing hype by bicycle manufacturers to sell more bikes, 29ers are being ridden by some of the best mountain bike racers in the world to World Cup and Olympic podiums. It’s hard to get an idea how a … Read more
This past weekend was the final edition of Mountain Bike Oregon for 2012 and as usual, it was a great experience; fantastic mountain bike riding, carousing with old friends and enjoying the small mountain town of Oakridge, Oregon. The weather has been hot and dry in the Pacific Northwest and the hot weather continued through … Read more
It took me twenty eight years, but I finally scanned and edited photos I took at of a few cycling events during the 1984 Olympic games in Los Angeles, California. There’s photos from the mens and womens road races, where Americans Connie Carpenter-Phinney and Alexi Grewel won gold medals in exciting, down to the wire … Read more
One of the highlights of the mountain biking year is Mountain Bike Oregon, a really cool mountain bike event held in one of the best mountain biking areas in the United States; Oakridge, Oregon. The event is put on by Oregon Adventures and raises a lot of money for local organizations besides being a heck … Read more
The really great thing about this area is that there are places to go that are not really on the map; no signs, no parking lot, no visitors center, if you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll miss it. I went to one of those places today. Not very far away, right down the road … Read more
Sorry to be so late to blog the news, but it was a heck of a weekend here in the PacNW. You never know exactly what you’re going to get around here and that was surely the case last weekend. On Saturday, a bunch of new friends came out to ride Surveyors Ridge. Yes, it’s … Read more
Gray and gloomy in North Bonneville so Don came up to the Hood, where it was nice and sunny, not a cloud in the sky. We heard that the Route 44 trails were open, so we headed up to Surveyors Ridge. Parked at the power lines and headed up the service road to Route 44. … Read more
It’s been raining off and on for the past week, not torrential downpours or anything, just enough to get and keep everything wet. It hasn’t exactly been warm and it’s been windy as well. All you can do is be ready to go when there is a window of clear skies between storms and get … Read more