Saturday we were on the Oregon side of the Columbia River to ride our mountain bikes on Gorge Trail 400, on Sunday we headed directly across the Columbia to check out the Stumptown Slosh Disc Golf tournament in North Bonneville, Washington. It was cold and windy, a pretty good challenge for even good disc golfers … Read more
The work continues on the watermanatwork.com website. Today we’ve added a some photos from the past season’s riding on Surveyors Ridge Trail, one of the classic mountain bike rides here in the Pacific Northwest. Here’s the link to the Surveyors Ridge photos. Tomorrow looks like a nice day, probably a little cool, but no rain … Read more
The weather here in the PacNW continues to be cold, snowy, wet or all the above, so outdoor activities are limited, at best. Which means we’ve had time to work on the WatermanAtWork.com website. We had to do a lot of work cleaning up the website’s computer code, some of which was more than a … Read more
The weather has not been so great the past couple weeks; cold, rainy and even a pretty good blizzard that dumped over 6″ of snow in about three hours the other day, so outdoor activities have been somewhat curtailed. Luckily, today we got an early Christmas present of a decent day that allowed us to … Read more
Another nice day here in the Pacific Northwest. No rain or snow and the fishing season is quickly coming to a close, so it’s back to the Klickitat River for another try at a trophy steelhead or salmon. There are still a few leaves on the trees, but as the wind picks up, most of … Read more
The thing about fishing is that sometimes you catch them, sometimes you don’t. We rarely get skunked, but when you are fishing for big fish, many times you either get something big, or you get nothing. So far this season, the success rate for catching the big trophy steelhead and salmon has been basically zero, … Read more
October 6, 2012 was Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day, so along with Northwest Trail Alliance and Just Fruit, we did just that on a beautiful, crisp early fall day at Stub Stewart State Park near Buxton, Oregon. We got there about 8:30AM and got the skills course, registration table and Just Fruit stand set … Read more
Another day fly fishing for the elusive Klickitat River steelhead today. It was a beautiful morning, starting to get a little chilly; in the low forties to start out. Wading in a glacial ice melt river adds to the chilliness. October and November are the best months for fishing here so you have to handle … Read more
It’s the time of year when the salmon and steelhead run up the tributaries of the Columbia River making it one of the best places for fly fishing in the United States. It’s been a long time since I’d done any fly fishing and was hoping I could get back in the swing of things … Read more
Summer is drawing to a close here in the Columbia River Gorge, that means it’s time to harvest the fruit that grows throughout the Hood River Valley. The fruit trees are full of fruit, the nights are getting cool with hot days and the air is full of smoke from nearby forest fires. The orchards … Read more