Hate to do it, but I’m putting my Burton Supermodel 174 snowboard up for sale. This board was purchased direct from Burton in 1997 and hand made in Vermont USA. The board is in mint condition. A few minor scratches on the deck from skier’s poles, the bottom is like new. The board comes with … Read more
Dealing with record heat and dry and dusty conditions, it’s time for more hot summer mountain biking from the Cascade Mountains. The conditions are not ideal, but the way things are going, there may be no riding at all if the fire situation keeps getting worse, as it probably will. Even though it’s hot, the … Read more
The continuing unseasonably hot weather is making for hot and dusty MTB trail riding here in the Cascade Mountains of the PacNW. Everything is bone dry making for extreme fire danger. There are already a number of large wildfires burning in the PacNW and the “fire season” has barely begun. Fire season is all year … Read more
We’ve got some kayak fishing for largemouth bass GIF action images that were not used in the watermanatwork.com blog this past winter. The fishing in this part of the PacNW has not been good and has become a lot more expensive. It’s nice to look back on a great season of kayak fishing for largemouth … Read more
As the hot weather continues in the PacNW, it gets drier and drier and the risk for wildfire is as extreme as it gets. The mountain snowpack is melting at a record rate. Seasonal streams and creeks are already dry and some mountain springs have been reduced to a trickle. This is all with a … Read more
This post presents hot Cascade Mountain bike riding during the hottest days ever recorded in the Pacific Northwest. We still managed to get some excellent early morning rides before it got too hot. One day, June 27, 2021 it was 113°F. 3000′ in the Cascade Mountains, cancelling the day’s ride because it’s too hot. That’s … Read more
We travel to a lot of remote places here at watermanatwork.com and we see a lot of wildlife. One animal we are not that stoked to come in contact with are mice, field mice. They usually come out at night looking for food and will eat through just about anything to get to it. If … Read more
It’s been about a month since we transitioned from kayak fishing in the US desert southwest to mountain biking on our local trails in the Cascade Mountains. It was supposed to go from kayak fishing on the Colorado River to kayak fishing on the Columbia River, but this area is going through “them changes” on … Read more
The winter season of kayak fishing for largemouth bass on the Colorado River is in the history books with a couple last days of good fishing and a last look at the always present desert wind. It’s been a good winter fishing season. Spending more time on the water you get more experience and I … Read more
Hot kayak fishing on the lower Colorado River continues literally and figuratively. The largemouth bass fishing has been pretty good, but with daytime temperatures near 100°F and 70°F at night, it’s getting uncomfortably warm. The humidity rarely goes above 15-20%. There is very little shade save for the vegetation around the lakes and river banks. … Read more