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
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
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
Fall is a couple days away, time to get as much riding in as possible, especially rides in the higher elevations where it will soon be raining and, yes, snowing soon. Off to a part of the area that’s a little off the beaten path; Nestor Peak and Buck Creek Trail. Buck Creek Trail is … Read more
The grass is brown and the days are mostly sunny, but there is no doubt that change is in the air. The days are shorter, nights cooler and the leaves have begun to turn from green to yellow. Even as the smoke from late summer wildfires hangs in the air, summer is quickly coming to … Read more
Sorry for the long gap between blog posts; there’s been some things going on and haven’t been able do much in the past couple weeks, but we are back on it now. Been doing a little traveling around the western United States, the one thing that seems to be everywhere is fire. A long, wet … Read more
It’s the dog days of summer and the fruit trees of the Hood River Valley are just about ready for picking. The Red d’Anjou and Bartlett pears are getting plump from constant irrigation with water from the nearby Hood River The tree branches are heavy with fruit and need to be propped up with long … Read more
The July Mountain Bike Oregon in Oakridge, OR was a little on the moist side, but this past weekend’s event was beautiful, warm and sunny with clear skies day and night. Daytime temperatures were in the high seventies and low eighties, at night it was in the mid fifties; perfect for riding, camping and having … Read more
I lost a little riding time because of the eighty hour work week on the organic garlic farm so I’m trying to get a little form back before the August MBO this weekend. I’ve only got a couple days to get some serious riding in so today was as good a time as any. I … Read more