On a recent kayak fishing trip, I noticed my seventeen year old Hobie Quest kayak was taking on water. Not too much, but any leak on a boat is bad and required immediate repair. It didn’t take long to discover the keel near the stern was worn through from years of dragging the kayak across … Read more
Leaving the absolutely massive salmon fishing crowds behind on the Columbia River, we headed south for the annual watermanatwork.com desert kayak fishing adventure. The trip got off to a bit of a rocky start, decline of American society and all as well as the Colorado River water level about as low as it can go, … Read more
Continued from Desert Kayak Fishing Season Under Way – Part 1 Ever since the watermanatwork.com fishing crew arrived in the desert southwest, it had been very hot. Hotter than we expected according to the forecast. 105°F or hotter during the day and about 85° at night for about a week, which was quite uncomfortable. That … Read more
Just like that, summer is over and it’s time for the summer MTB riding season wrap up. The summer weather in the PacNW is usually fantastic with long days. Just like everywhere else in the American west, this area is suffering from a prolonged drought made worse by record hot summer temperatures. Last year was … Read more
The summer Cascade Mountain bike riding has been excellent with great weather. It has been on the warm side for the Cascades and a bit dusty, but the weather will be changing quickly here in the mountains as summer ends and the long PacNW winter shows up all too soon. There was a bit of … Read more
Despite a few more excessively hot days, we’ve had some great weather and great mountain bike riding in the Cascade Mountains. It’s a bit dusty, but overall the conditions are about as good as can be expected for this time of year. We’ve come into town for supplies giving me a chance to make this … Read more
We are just back from a week of record hot mountain biking in the local Cascade Mountains. After last summer’s record heat, nobody was looking forward to yet another sweltering heat wave that in just a few years, has become a regular feature of the PacNW summer. With daytime temperatures expected to reach 100° or … Read more
We are blogging live from 3000′ in the Cascade Mountains during yet another record breaking heat wave here in the Pacific Northwest. It has been over 100*F for the past two days with at least another two or three 100 degree plus days coming up. The “low” temperature at night is about 67*F, so not … Read more
It’s mid July and that means summer mountain bike riding in the Cascade Mountains. Everything is green, there is still snow in the mountains and it’s not too dusty. It’s cool at night and hot during the day, so an early start to the day’s ride is in order. There is plenty of climbing right … Read more
We had to sit out a day or two of heavy rain, but there was more great MTB riding in the Cascade Mountains when the rain stopped. With the July 4th weekend coming up, one of the big summer holidays here in the PacNW, more people would be showing up for sure, but this place … Read more