Snowden is a hilly area outside of White Salmon, WA that is known for it’s abundant snowfall and today it more than lived up to it’s name. It’s snowed at least a foot in the past 24 hours and it is still snowing. The temperature now at 5 PM is 25 degrees and dropping quickly … Read more
Looks like winter is going to give us one more shot of cold and snow before we switch over to spring. It’s been snowing off and on for the last twenty four hours, it seems to be getting colder and the snow showers a bit heavier and more frequent. I went into town earlier today, … Read more
The weather has been on the cold side for the past few days, so I’ve been scanning some of my thousands of slides and negatives; converting them to digital files. It’s cool to see these old photos, but scanning them is kind of tedious. I don’t have a top shelf scanner, which can cost thousands … Read more
Yesterday, we were in Portland for the “Worst Day of the Year” bicycle ride. As seems to be the case with the recent history of the ride, the weather did not live up to it’s name. It was a little on the cool side, not surprising for the middle of February, the skies were gray … Read more
Today, I went out looking for a waterfall in a very remote area. There is no road or trail to the waterfall, you get as close as you can on Forest Service roads, then head off into the woods. It doesn’t sound that tough, but here’s what the roads look like: No parking lot, no … Read more
Today is a sad day, Leroy Grannis has left us for the great beyond. First off, Leroy was a great human being; honest, hard working, creative and enthusiastic about life. For those who are unfamiliar with the surfing world, Leroy grew up at the beach and documented surfing in it’s seminal stages in the late … Read more
There are some new photos of mountain biking on the epic Surveyors Ridge trail in the Oregon Cascades on the WatermanAtWork.com website. Check it out.
The weather has remained nice, the trails are drying out, so out into the woods we go. I missed out on a ride yesterday because I had some computer work to do, but today was a ride day. It was sunny in the morning, then clouded up in the afternoon, probably due to a storm … Read more
The 2011 bike riding season has begun! Thanks to the unusually warm and surprisingly dry weather here in the PacNW, I was able to get out for a quick ride before a rainstorm blows in. The weather here in Washington has been unseasonably warm and rainy, usually January is a snowy, cold time of year. … Read more
It has been raining for almost a week, the snowpack is melting and all that water has to go somewhere. Off the mountains, down the valley and into the river. Creeks that are dry or just a trickle in the summer are raging torrents. There is a lot of water headed downhill today.