Austin is a bike friendly city, to be sure. As far as mountain biking goes, most of the riding is done on private ranches, metro, county and state parks. One of the more popular mountain biking spots, Walnut Creek Metropolitan Park is within Austin city limits. The trails have been adopted by the Austin Ridge … Read more
Been a bit of a slowdown in blog entries lately; the holidays, bad weather and things like work taking a chunk out of the fun and games. We’ll try and get things rolling again in the new year. Here in central Texas hill country, there are a lot of open spaces, but most of it … Read more
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.
The weather here in Central Texas has gotten a little cooler, making it just about perfect for bike riding. Once again, we hit the county roads outside of Leander, Texas for a ride through what’s left of Texas ranch country. Not a lot of traffic on these county roads, most of the traffic is on … Read more
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
Today was a beautiful late fall day, perfect for riding the Central Texas hill country roads. It was sunny, but cool; about 60°F, not much wind. Rode out of Leander, TX, up Round Mountain and into the city of Liberty Hill. Liberty Hill is a small town north of Austin, it really has that “old … Read more
The weather for the past few days here in Texas has been pretty darn nice, maybe a little chilly for the locals though. Daytime highs in the low seventies, overnight lows in the high thirties and low forties; after the hottest summer on record, it’s quite a cold snap for this area. Pretty good riding … Read more
I probably have said this before, but I’ll say it again; one of the best ways to see the world is from the seat of a bicycle. You are moving at a speed that is faster than walking or riding a horse, but it’s slow enough that you can see what is on the side … Read more
For the past few years I’ve been lucky enough to spend a lot of time riding mountain bikes around the Columbia River Gorge between Mt. Adams and Mt. Hood. I’ve been riding mountain bikes long enough to know that area could easily be one of the best places to ride a mountain bike in the … Read more
After a few weeks of moving and having by bikes destroyed by a redneck truck driver, I finally got back on the bike and back on the road. I’m living here in Texas hill country, so why not get out and have a look around? A bike is the best way to see the countryside, … Read more