July MBO 2012

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

Too Hot For The Streets Car Show 2012

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

Oregon Trail Rally – Fir Mountain Stage

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

The Rain Has Stopped

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

Here, There, Everywhere

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

2011 MBO Photos Posted

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.

Remembering Northwestern Lake

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

GoPro Camera Review

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

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

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