Hold The Sunscreen

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Looks like the sun has decided a few nice days was enough and has disappeared once again. Today was very windy and cool, especially at the top of the local mountains and there was an occasional light shower. Not a terrible day. The trails ranged from damp to total quagmire, the mud making it very … Read more

Out On The Trails

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After a week or so of road riding with the mountain bike down for repairs, it was great to be back on the dirt again. It was another nice day, not as sunny as the past couple days, but warm and hazy. Riding up to the top of one of the ridges that surrounds the … Read more

Awesome Warm, Sunny Day

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It’s easy to complain about the weather here, it’s pretty dismal for most of the year. In return, we get a few months of summer that is absolutely unbeatable. Yesterday was nice, today was like real put on the swim suit and sunscreen, get out the BBQ and have a cold beer summer day. Eighty … Read more

This Is More Like It

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Much of the year, the weather in this part of the country absolutely sucks. On the other hand, when the weather is nice here, it is spectacular. After a long, wet, dreary spring, we are not going to let a single nice day go by, so out on the local roads we go. The mountain … Read more

Sun, Rain, Bike Racing

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Today was the Prologue of the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic stage race. It was a pretty nice day; sunny, cool and windy, pretty typical for around here. The Prologue was held on a road that is just about a mile or so from my house so I rode down there with my camera gear to … Read more

Enough With The Rain Already

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We are accustomed to a lot of rain up here in the Pacific Northwest, but this crappy spring weather is really starting to get old. After a night’s worth of heavy rain and a morning thunderstorm, the mud was so slippery, the second I got a couple feet out of my driveway, my truck slid … Read more

Springtime In The Valley

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We’ve been having typical PacNW weather recently; sunny, cloudy, rainy and windy, sometimes all at the same time. Today was sunny, but cool with a stiff SW breeze. A little higher up in the foothills, there were scattered rainstorms. In the photo below the sun is shining in the valley, Mt. Hood is obscured by … Read more

One Day In May

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The gray, windy, rainy weather is really hanging on here for the most part. It might be sunny for a bit, raining an hour later and maybe some 25-30 mph wind thrown in. Hit and miss on the bike riding, especially on the wet, muddy trails and too windy for kayak fishing. You can always … Read more