Great weather, great fishing

The weather has been great the past few days and the fish have been biting. My friends Chris, Mike and I got out on the local lake and had pretty good luck with the trout. Mike had especially good luck and landed a lunker rainbow. The lake is stocked with rainbows every year, most of … Read more

Fishing Season Opens Tomorrow?

We had hoped to be fishing by now. Spring salmon are running, the local lakes are freshly stocked with trout and walleye and smallmouth bass are biting in the Columbia River. Got all the gear ready and threw the kayak on the truck. The next day began a week of downpours and 40+ mph wind. … Read more

1994 NORBA Nationals Video

Finally got all the editing and encoding done; the videos of the 1994 NORBA National Championships at Big Bear Lake, California are the first installment of MTB Theatre section of the WatermanAtWork.com website. These video clips are from the glory days of NORBA mountain bike racing. Tomac, Overend, Furtado, Juarez, Giove, Lopes, King and more … Read more

Between Spring Storms

It has been raining, snowing and hailing off and on for the past week or so. Yesterday I managed to sneak out in between storms and get a ride in. There is a lot of water in and on the ground, the trails were mostly wet, muddy and slippery. Water was running strong in every … Read more

Always Something To Do

Well, with my season pass for Mt. Hood Meadows in somebody’s drawer up at the resort, the snow season is over(at least here in Oregon), so it’s back on the bike. This is the rainy season here in the PacNW, so it’s only the hardcore riders that get off the couch and out the door. … Read more

Snowboard Mission

For everyone involved in the potential upcoming snowboard project; it looks like either Mammoth or Bachelor, probably Mammoth. Depends on the weather and everyone’s commitments should something else come up; looks like lots of potential for south swell action. I’ll post general info here; email or call for details.

Mt. Hood Meadows; Worst Ski Resort in America?

The 2009-10 snowboard season came to a sudden an unexpected end on March 18. Shortly after a couple hours shooting photos of the Revolution Tour; I was informed by the lift operator on the Cascade lift to report to the Ski Patrol at the top of the lift. When I got there; the head ski … Read more

More Revolution Tour Photos

The Revolution Tour Boardercross competition was held on March 18. While the halfpipe competition was held in blizzard conditions; today was blue skies and bright sun. Photos of the Boardercross qualifying runs are on the Snowboarding page of the WatermanAtWork.com website.

Revolution Tour Snowboarding

The Revolution Tour rolled through Oregon at Mt. Hood Meadows today; safe to say the USA has some hot up and coming pipe riders. The competitors in this tour are thirteen years old and older; the Olympic champions of 2014 may have been riding today. The weather was typical Oregon; as soon as the competition … Read more

Seasons Changing

After a week of pretty heavy snowfall; the weather up on Mt. Hood is getting warmer and wetter. Weekdays see fewer and fewer skiers and snowboarders. Weekends are still crowded and the last week of March; Spring Break will be crowded; then after that it will probably only be a couple weeks left before Mt. … Read more