The St Helens Epic is an 80 mile, single loop, mountain bike ride that takes in some of the best (and hardest) trails that the Gifford Pinchot NF has to offer. The word “epic” gets pretty abused/over used up here in the PNW, but if there is an event that I am going to deem…
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Waldo Lake Weekend
Mia and I have lived in Oregon for a bit over 4 years now. We have done some of the PNW classic mountain bike rides and hikes in that time, but there are still quite a few that need to be explored. Back in March I reserved a campsite for August up at North Waldo…
Central Oregon Backcountry Explorer
The official name of this route created by The Swallows is the “Central Oregon Backcountry Explorer“. I’ve been calling it the Prineville Loop or Ochoco Loop. Back in December/January Dean and I started talking about doing the Oregon Outback in late April. Which then turned into follow the Outback route until Prineville then morph off…
Keeping busy
Consistent crappy weather has not deterred us lately. We have had one or two actually nice days interspersed here and there. Luckily one of those nice days my first mountain bike race of the season, it was held in almost perfect weather. The record setting rains seem to have subsided and a more on and…
Cottonwood Canyon Hike
I told (begged) Mia on Tuesday that on Saturday we were going to keep driving east until the rain stopped! The forecast for the PDX metro area was for more of the same….RAIN. A co-worker told me that we have received almost a year’s worth of rain in the past 4-5 months. Needless to say…
Another Overnight
After the last overnight at Stub Stewart in the snow, I booked another cabin for this past weekend. I wanted to get in one more trip before the next few months focus more on training rides and races. I convinced Michelle, Dean, Tom & Cassie, and Shawn to join me for this one. Being winter…
