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…
Category: camping
Redwoods and Crater Lake Weekend
Mia’s birthday falls quite conveniently on or around Memorial Day. We’ve made it an annual tradition to go away for this holiday weekend and this year was no exception. We’d made plans to hook up with the San Francisco family, we had not seen them in over 2 years since moving out here. Ironic since…
Cabin Camping At Stub
Cyclingwild did another trip up to LL Stub Stewart State Park this past weekend. During our last trip we were camping at the walk-in sites, this time we had the luxury of staying in the “deluxe” cabins. I was expecting 4 walls and a ceiling with some plywood bed type items. What we got instead…
Camping and Hiking with “The Dog”
Mia and I are now just over 3 weeks into dog ownership, and things are going well. Codi is adjusting really well and I believe he trusts us and does a pretty good job of listening. Last weekend the forecast for the PNW was very good. No rain in sight, so Mia and I on…
Random Stuff
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…
Stub Stewart with Cyclewild.org
Finally got a chance to get out on an overnight camping trip with the cyclewild.org folks at Stub Stewart State Park. We met Saturday morning in downtown Hillsboro and followed the backroads to Banks and the start of the Banks-Vernonia trail. Between adults and children there was about 26 of us that made the…
ON & OFF RHODES 