{"id":795,"date":"2010-08-02T08:46:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T15:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/?p=795"},"modified":"2013-04-10T16:10:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T00:10:26","slug":"locally-owned-and-operated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/locally-owned-and-operated\/","title":{"rendered":"Locally Owned and Operated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got a chance to hit one of our favorite trails; Old Man Pass\/Falls Creek in Skamania County, WA. This is a great area, crisscrossed with a number of challenging mountain bike trails.<br \/>\nI was a &#8220;Locals Special&#8221; ride with Jeff Logosz of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slingshotsports.com\/site\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Slingshot Sports<\/strong><\/a>, who make some of the best kiteboarding and wakeboarding gear in the world and Don Stevens with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gorgedelights.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gorge Delights<\/strong><\/a>, a local company that makes the Gorge Delights and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gorgedelights.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=category.display&amp;category_ID=14\" target=\"_blank\">Just Fruit<\/a> bars that are so popular with cyclists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/JeffL.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-796\" title=\"Jeff\" src=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/JeffL.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/JeffL.jpg 300w, https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/JeffL-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don managed to blow out the rear shock of the hardest working bike in the MTB business so it looks like a shock rebuild is coming up in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DonS.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-797\" title=\"Don\" src=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DonS.jpg\" alt=\"Don\" width=\"262\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DonS.jpg 262w, https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DonS-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Met a nice couple from the Virgin Islands who had rented a VW camper and were on a mountain bike vacation. What a change of scenery that must be!<br \/>\nLooks like another nice week coming up. Saw a few fishing boats around the local rivers on the way to go mountain biking, maybe the steelhead fishing is picking up. It&#8217;s been pretty windy and I&#8217;ve been really lagging on getting out there and shooting some kiteboarding, so I&#8217;ll have to motivate and work on that. The nice summer months go by really quickly around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got a chance to hit one of our favorite trails; Old Man Pass\/Falls Creek in Skamania County, WA. This is a great area, crisscrossed with a number of challenging mountain bike trails. 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