Rides – Page 23 – ON & OFF RHODES

Singletrack Therapy

Woke up to see that the forecasted rain had been pushed out until the afternoon and the temps were quite reasonable. So after walking Codi, eating breakfast and catching up on an episode of the Walking Dead, I headed out to Rogers Camp for a little singletrack therapy. The Rogers Camp day use area was…

Dang It!

Today was probably one of only a handful of times I wish that it was colder. I’ve had it in my mind for several weeks now to take the Farley up towards Mount St. Helens and hit up the snowmobile trails and tool around. Mother Nature had other plans though. I drove up to the…

Nestucca River Road Ride

I think I found my west coast beach ride route. I met Nick and Dean on the aborted PDX-Vernonia ride a few weeks ago, and Dean suggested this ride out to Pacific City via the Nestucca River Road. I had heard a little bit about this route from my boss at work and had seen…

Trek Farley 7

So, I’ve got a new bike….a Trek Farley 7,I sold two bikes to get this one. One was my Trek Speed Concept TT bike and the other my beloved Salsa Fargo. Selling the Fargo wasn’t easy. I was thinking of upgrading to the newer Fargo frameset. They are more “mountain bikey” compared to the 1st…

Little Overnight

Did an overnight out to Stub Stewart. The original plan was for 5 of us to head up, but unfortunately both Keith and Michelle ended up being sick this week. Keith just coming out of it and Michelle just coming down with it. I still had the company of Maria and Mark though and we…

Mellow

It was a fairly mellow weekend. New tires on the car, walking the dog and watching football about sums it up. Turned out we didn’t need to be too nervous for the Patriots vs. Chiefs game, it wasn’t nearly as close as I thought it would be. The game of the weekend has to go…