So, Mia and I went out on a short ride yesterday. As we were getting ready it smelled faintly of smoke, kind of like your neighbor was having a bonfire or similar to the remnants of your campfire from the night before. It was a mild smoky odor. When we got outside we automatically assumed…
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Lost Lake
Waaayyy back in late March Mia was brilliant enough to book us a campsite at Lost Lake Campground for early August. She’d read that the sites booked super fast so the idea was to jump on it while the thought was hot. Well, total slam dunk on this one. We scored with an incredible weekend…
Panther Creek Tour
The mountain bike race season is done, vacation is done, and now it is time to play. I purposely built this year around being in good racing shape for the spring and early summer and then wanted to hit vacation in July as a nice reset. Now there are two goals for the rest of…
Twin Lakes
Another weekend, another hike with Mia and Codi. This one was all about getting out to some place a bit cooler. Temps for the PDX Metro area were calling for upper 90’s all weekend, so we wanted a hike with some water and some elevation. Mia picked Twin Lakes based on this hike being listed…
Peak Bagging
Being back in NH gives me a chance to hike in the White Mountains and gives Paul a chance to knock some more peaks off his NH 4,000 footer list. We had decided a couple months ago to shoot for the Carters which includes 4 peaks over 4K feet, but only 3 count because of…
I Could Get Used to This
We’re on day one of our vacation and some friends of ours were gracious enough to let us stay at their lake house on Northwood Lake. Severe storms in the northeast delayed our departure from the northwest by about 90 minutes. This meant that we had a quick reminder to the quiet NH way of…
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