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
It’s prime time summer weather so we’ve been riding bikes on a regular basis and fishing when the conditions allow, but recent rides are pretty much solo training rides, so nothing too exciting to report and the fishing has been a little slow(at least where we went), so last weekend we took up a little … Read more
Today was the Oregon Trail Rally put on by Rally America here in Hood River, Oregon. It’s a challenging race over dirt/gravel/rock roads that, like today, were slick and wet from days of rain. You can get the stats for the rally HERE, photos are below They are racing on the other side of the … Read more
Finally, and I’ve probably said this before, it looks like the long, wet winter/spring might be over and, hopefully, nicer weather is on the way. Everything is lush and green, but the trails are muddy and slippery. It rained most of yesterday and again last night, but today the sun actually came out and there … Read more
After another long wet and cold spring, that looked a lot like winter, we are ready to get the kayaks back in the water and catch some fish. El Niño, La Niña, whatever, the winters have been really hanging on here the past few years. Today the temperature finally hit the mid 70’s, the next … Read more
Just like the Johnny Cash song says, “I’ve been everywhere”. My wild west Texas adventures have wound down and it’s on the road across America back to the Pacific Northwest. I left Texas on a warm, overcast spring day. All along the way, spring wildflowers were in full bloom In a couple weeks, these beautiful … Read more
We’ve been a little busy and haven’t had time to post the photos from the 2011 Mountain Bike Oregon on the WatermanAtWork website, but they are up there now, along with photos from 2008 and 2009. Better late than never, I reckon.
On October 26, 2011, engineers blew a hole in the Condit Dam in Southwest Washington and emptied Northwestern Lake into the lower White Salmon River in order to remove the dam from the river and allow salmon and steelhead to migrate upstream to spawn. Northwestern Lake, the reservoir created upstream from the Condit Dam when … Read more