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…
Category: Rides
Silver Star Prison Break 2
For the second consecutive year I did the Silver Star Prison Break. This year it was Juston, Paul and myself headed out to Washougal, WA for the ride. Once again it was a pretty good turn out based on the number of cars in the parking lot. I have no idea what the official count…
Timber Logjam II
Saturday marked the second “event” by the Unpaved/OMTM guys. This one was the Timber Logjam and would cover a lot of territory familiar to me from my own personal rides. I’ve just never hooked it all together like this and I did get to learn some new roads too. Since the Hell of the North…
Hell of the North Plains
Coup up a bunch of Portland Metro area bike riders with snow and frigid temps for a week and they’ll come out in droves for a questionable route and weather forecast. The Hell of the North Plains ride was originally scheduled for last Saturday January 14th, but given the dumping of snow the ride was…
One More Time
It’s snowing again in Portland, Oregon and this time it is serious snowfall. I’ve made fun of how things shut down with as little as 1″ of snow. Last night and into today though, we got 7-8″ of snow here in Hillsboro and parts of Portland proper had 10″+. The news was showing parts of…
Playing in the Snow
We had more snow here in the PDX metro area this week. That meant chaos, short work days and of course play time! City Hall was closed early on Wednesday and open late on Thursday. It took some of my friends and coworkers hours to travel distances as short as 5 miles. Makes me glad…
ON & OFF RHODES 