We’ve been doing a lot of mountain bike riding in the Mt. Hood National Forest lately. Most of the lower elevation trails are closed due to extreme fire danger or too crowded with summer vacationers getting their last riding in before school starts and the rainy fall weather sets in. There are many excellent trails … Read more
Riding mountain bikes is a lot of fun and there are many ways to enjoy riding a bicycle without pavement. Most people like to ride on maintained trails with parking lots, signs at every bend and fork in the trail and smooth trails with no downed trees, rocks, water crossings or anything else that may … Read more
With the lower elevation mountain bike trails closed due to extreme fire danger, it’s time to head higher up into the Cascade Mountains and ride the trails in the Mt. Hood National Forest. One of the more entertaining and scenic trails is the Surveyors Ridge Trail, one of our local favorites, that’s where we’re headed. … Read more
The wind decided to take a rest for a day which allowed us to get out on the Columbia River for some smallmouth bass fishing. We launched at Doug’s Beach, a popular windsurfing spot near Lyle, Washington. With no wind, there are no windsurfers, so we launched from an empty beach into a moderate west … Read more
We’ve been doing a lot of mountain bike riding on the local trails lately, haven’t been writing about it too much, there are plenty of photos in previous blog posts, no sense reposting the same thing every day. There haven’t been any posts on kayak fishing lately either, that’s because it’s been very windy here … Read more
We’ve been having some windy days and fluctuating water levels in the Columbia Gorge which has been making it tough on the kayak fishing for smallmouth bass. We got out on the river yesterday to find the water level has dropped by a couple feet in the Bonneville Pool, which has caused the bass to … Read more
Not too many posts about bike riding lately, not because we are not riding, we’re just not talking about it that much. Some people ride one day a week for a couple hours and spend the next six days posting about it on Strava, Garmin Connect, Facebook and anyplace else that’s available. We try to … Read more
I was lucky enough to catch a big smallmouth bass on the Columbia River recently, the video has been edited and posted on the watermanatwork.com website. I caught this large bass off of Miller Island, a large river island near the mouth of the Deschutes River. It was extremely hot and the Columbia River was … Read more
Looks like the Evergreen Highway trail will be re-opened after a severe ice storm downed a large number of trees, closing the trail. In the past couple years, salvage logging and regular timber harvesting operations have been ongoing, trails are closed while logging is taking place. This trail is on private property, as part of … Read more
The “hot” part of this blog post has to do with the extremely hot weather, the fishing was not that hot, but it definitely had it’s moments, more on the fishing later in the post. The weather here in the Pacific Northwest has been very hot the past couple days, well into the 90’s, with … Read more