It’s Eddy Merckx’s 65th birthday today; the greatest cyclist of all time. If he could ride 30,000 miles a year, I can get out and ride up and down the local mountain. Almost the first day of summer but it seems more like the first day of spring. The sun was in and out of … Read more
Finally, a nice couple of days to go riding, so up into the hills we go. Even though it’s the middle of June and 75 degrees, there are still patches of snow. Still plenty of snow up on Mt. Hood as well. With all the snow and warm weather, avalanche danger is pretty high. No … Read more
The record rainfall here in the PacNW has really put the damper on late spring and early summer. Seventy degree, dry days have yet to come in any quantity so whenever the rain stops you have to take advantage of it and get out there. When the rain is heavy, it takes two or three … Read more
When people in the PacNW complain about the rain, you know it’s really raining. Record rain in May, first week of June looks to be all rain, kind of sucks for everyone who likes to be outside. All the more reason when there are a couple nice days, you get out there! The rain makes … Read more
Chris and I headed off into the Washington backcountry to look for some trophy trout holding in the high country lakes. The first lake we tried out was a series of small, seasonal bodies of water that are formed by water freezing in a lava tube, holding the winter snowmelt until the ice in the … Read more
The weather has been great the past few days and the fish have been biting. My friends Chris, Mike and I got out on the local lake and had pretty good luck with the trout. Mike had especially good luck and landed a lunker rainbow. The lake is stocked with rainbows every year, most of … Read more
Starting to think that the nice summer weather is starting to replace the cold spring rain; a beautiful day today, no better place to be than out in the woods. The spring weather can be pretty gloomy around here, but the rain leaves everything green and the streams and rivers running at full volume. The … Read more
Yesterday we hit the local lake where the fishing was pretty good. At least the sun was out and it was warm, still a little windy. Today we headed a little higher up into the hills. Much cooler, but sunny and not as windy in the morning. The fishing was good; caught at least ten … Read more
We had hoped to be fishing by now. Spring salmon are running, the local lakes are freshly stocked with trout and walleye and smallmouth bass are biting in the Columbia River. Got all the gear ready and threw the kayak on the truck. The next day began a week of downpours and 40+ mph wind. … Read more
This time of year it can be sunny and warm one day and raining and wet the next. Slowly but surely, the mud becomes nice, firm ground and the trails are just about perfect for riding. The grass is lush and green so the local rancher let their cattle out for maximum feeding. Many of … Read more