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Been a bit hectic the past few weeks with flying back to NH for my grampa’s funeral, moving offices at work, and preparing for vacation. Anyways, I missed a chance to post specifically about Goat Lake. Needless to say, it’s a wicked awesome overnight hike. Highest I have ever camped, and yes, we got to…

100 Years

I had to make an unexpected visit back to NH on Friday of last week. My Grampa Palmer passed away after a short illness. Grampa just recently turned 100 on July 26th. It’s amazing to me what my grandfather got to see in his life. From 1914 to 2014 he has seen some of the…

Plains of Abraham

Finally got to do one of the PNW epic rides yesterday with Juston Manville! We’ve been waiting for a weekend were we both have free time at the same time, plus good weather. Saturday was most certainly that day. After watching the finish of the Tour stage, we hit the road for the hour(ish) ride…

Hagg Lake Duathlon

Raced in the Hagg Lake Duathlon yesterday, put on by the folks over at AA Sports Ltd. I’ve now done their Spring Classic Duathlon and the Blue Lake Duathlon put on by these guys. The events are really well run and they always have live music and some decently good food included with your race…

2nd Annual Freedomthon

Ran the 2nd annual Freedomthon on July 4th. Last year this was my first race since moving to Oregon. So now it was a chance to come and do the race again. It was an awesome way to benchmark just over 12 months out here. I ran a much smarter race this weekend compared to…

Timber to Vernonia Century

Trying to keep up with my “century a month” goal for May – October of this year. Finally got the chance to get in my June century this past weekend. A couple people at work with kept telling me about this “timber ride”, which is basically heading out towards the Tillamook State Forest, cutting over…