No work on Friday because of the Veterans Day holiday (It’s actually Saturday) and it’s also birthday time frame for Paul and myself. For the most part neither of us have ever had to go to school or work on our birthday and for as long as I can remember now we’ve marked the day…
Category: Hikes
Becoming a Tradition
The Timothy Lake hike has become something of an unintentional annual fall tradition. It’s our 5th fall living in Oregon and this is the third time we have hiked around the lake. It’s not a difficult hike, yes it’s 13 miles, but there is only about 400′ of elevation in that 13 miles. Not saying everyone…
Methow Valley Vacation
Mia and I visited the Methow Valley in the winter of 2015. We said back then that we needed to check it out in the summer, well that time finally came. We just spent one wicked super fabulous week exploring the North Cascades and surrounding Okanogan National Forest. We hiked and mountain biked everyday and…
Frog Lake Buttes
Mountain bike racing is basically done for the season, so now it’s time to start diversifying the weekends a bit more. Mia and I need to get Codi into hiking shape for our vacation coming up in July so we opted to get him out on a jaunt near Mt. Hood this weekend. I wanted…
The Other Niagara Falls
Long ago, in what feels like another lifetime, I visited the “real” Niagara Falls between NY & Canada. My take away from that trip was that the Canadian side was way more fun than the U.S.A side. Perhaps things have changed though, it has been almost 18-19 years since I was last there. Mia was…
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…
