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
If you’ve been to a ski resort or on a bike trail in the past year or two, no doubt you’ve seen many GoPro cameras attached to every part of a person’s body. While there have been a number of personal POV(Point Of View) cameras available at a relatively inexpensive price, including Contour and the … Read more
Sorry for yet another long delay in blog posts. There has been a lot happening, it is taking a little time for everything to settle down so I can sum it up in a few paragraphs and photos. Left the Columbia River Gorge as the autumn rain started to fall and headed south. Across eastern … Read more
Sorry for the long gap between blog posts; there’s been some things going on and haven’t been able do much in the past couple weeks, but we are back on it now. Been doing a little traveling around the western United States, the one thing that seems to be everywhere is fire. A long, wet … Read more
The July Mountain Bike Oregon in Oakridge, OR was a little on the moist side, but this past weekend’s event was beautiful, warm and sunny with clear skies day and night. Daytime temperatures were in the high seventies and low eighties, at night it was in the mid fifties; perfect for riding, camping and having … Read more
After leaving my digital camera on the roof of my truck and driving away from a mountain bike trailhead, I found myself looking for another camera. I have a nice Canon DSLR, but it is too big and heavy to carry around when I’m riding bikes or traveling light, so I needed a camera that … Read more
There are three things you’ll find nearly everywhere in the Pacific Northwest; water, forests and farms. For the past week or so, I’ve been learning a bit more about organic farming; specifically organic garlic farming. I did a little “hands on” research at a local Hood River organic farm. The ready for harvest garlic was … Read more
Mountain Bike Oregon is a great mountain bike event in Oakridge, Oregon. Oakridge is a small town that used to be a booming timber town. Like many other similar towns in the Pacific Northwest, the lumber industry declined, lumber mills closed and the town’s economy was devastated. While Oakridge doesn’t have much of a logging … Read more
After more than a week of changing clutches, timing chains and head gaskets, I had enough of working on cars, so I headed down to North Bonneville, WA to check out the “Too Hot For the Streets” Car Show to check out some other guy’s automotive skills. It was a beautiful, sunny day and there … Read more
I have a 1990 Toyota pickup truck with about 135,000 miles on it that has run without any problems since the day I bought it more than twenty years ago. I’m a pretty decent mechanic, I’ve always repaired my own vehicles and built a few race cars, motorcycles and off road vehicles as well, so … Read more