Mia signed up for the Bend, OR GRIT Clinic several months ago, so too bad for us, we had to make a weekend trip down to Bend. That’s always such a tough decision, and it’s never any fun coming here. (yes, that is all sarcasm). Since we’d be bringing the dog we wanted to rent…
Category: Hikes
Elk Meadows and Mountain Hike
This was one of those weekends that you live for. Temps in the 90’s, sunny, dry. Just plain awesome! I took full advantage of it too. I did 40 miles with the Portland Velo Saturday Ride which went up Dairy Creek this week. On the way back down I hooked up with Mia as she was riding…
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…
Ramona Falls Hike
The original plan for today had actually been to hike Dog Mountain in The Gorge, but for whatever reason we weren’t really feeling that one when we woke up this morning. So after breakfast and perusing some of our hiking books, we opted for Ramona Falls off of Lolo Pass. It was the right decision…
Methow Valley
For the President’s Day Weekend Mia and I both took Friday and Tuesday off from work and made the looooonnnnggg trip up to the Methow Valley in Washington. We stayed in Mazama just 12 miles outside of Winthrop. It’s a 7-ish hour drive from the PDX area up to Winthrop. This was one of the…
Hello 2015
Mia and I welcomed 2015 in glorious fashion. I was in bed by 9:45 and asleep by 10:15! In other words it was pretty quiet. I had been up since 5AM, worked a full day and was pretty pooped out by the time 9pm hit. We both pretty much loafed around on Thursday, watched some…
