The great weather in the Gorge continues, hard to believe it is so nice here in the middle of February. Because of the dry winter weather, some of the local trails that would normally be way too muddy to ride this time of year are in perfect condition, almost like late spring/early summer. One of … Read more
After Saturday’s ride on the relatively flat Klickitat Trail, it’s time to get back to the roads in the local hills. Sunday was another awesome sunny day, can’t stay inside. Usually, the weather around here this time of year is dismal; and I’m being optimistic about that. When it’s dry, sunny and 45° in the … Read more
We are really getting lucky with the winter weather here, mild winter so far for sure. I hope that doesn’t mean winter will last until August like last year, but what can you do? A little cold this morning, but clear skies, so we head out on the trails. Today we went back to the … Read more
Today we were lucky enough to ride the Klickitat Trail, some call it the Klickitat River Trail, on a beautiful winter day. It was supposed to be showers and cloudy but it turned out to be clear and sunny! We’ll take any nice day during this time of year, today was a nice one. On … Read more
Today we headed out to the Syncline, an area of trails near Bingen, Washington. The Syncline is a spectacular geologic formation; an ancient basalt flow. It is also a very popular spot with mountain bikers, dog walkers and hikers. Maybe even an equestrian or two. The popularity of the Syncline with mountain bikers has led … Read more
Winter weather has been in effect for some weeks now. Even if snow has melted in the lower elevations, there is still plenty of snow just a thousand feet or so up in the surrounding hills. It was fairly warm yesterday and downright balmy today, nearly 50°! That’s pretty warm for the last day of … Read more
Saturday we were on the Oregon side of the Columbia River to ride our mountain bikes on Gorge Trail 400, on Sunday we headed directly across the Columbia to check out the Stumptown Slosh Disc Golf tournament in North Bonneville, Washington. It was cold and windy, a pretty good challenge for even good disc golfers … Read more
Still no rain or snow, but still pretty cold, but not cold enough to keep us off the trails. We headed back to Gorge Trail 400 for further exploration of this trail system we don’t really ride much, especially in the summer because when the weather is nice, these trails are packed with hikers. I … Read more
The work continues on the watermanatwork.com website. Today we’ve added a some photos from the past season’s riding on Surveyors Ridge Trail, one of the classic mountain bike rides here in the Pacific Northwest. Here’s the link to the Surveyors Ridge photos. Tomorrow looks like a nice day, probably a little cool, but no rain … Read more
We’ve had a good deal of snow in the past couple weeks and it’s been cold, so not much melting going on. And it’s not like the snow is confined to the higher elevations, we’ve had 4-6″ of frozen, rock hard snow on the ground here at a couple hundred feet of elevation. Luckily, we … Read more