Last weekend I did the Mudslinger XC race down in Blodgett, OR. Mia and Codi came down to Corvallis with me on Saturday evening and we stayed in the not so up-to-date Days Inn on 9th street. Recommendation here….find another place to stay. It was cheap, but it was beat up,run down, and kind of…
Category: Rides
Waffles and a ride
It was a pretty standard Sunday around here. Mia and I generally start off Sundays with pancakes using the Alton Brown recipe for buttermilk pancakes that I wrote about back in 2013. Every now and then we switch it up to french toast, which I kind of just wing it with that recipe. However, the…
It Always Rains in Portland
There is a saying about the Portland area, or the Pacific Northwest in general. “It always rains in (insert city)”. The truth is it doesn’t. Portland gets about as much rain annually as Manchester, NH. I used that as my reference point when we where trying to decide if we wanted to move here or…
Echo Red to Red
Did my first mountain bike race of the year (and first since last year too) out in Echo, OR at the Echo Red to Red race. Conditions were so much better compared to last year. I think we topped out in the mid 30’s last year, while this year we made it into the low…
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…
Not What I Intended
So, I had a whole logging road route planned out for today, it had the potential to be quite epic. HOWEVER, I screwed up and didn’t write down the name of one of the roads I wanted to turn onto from Scoggins Valley Road. I knew all the logging roads, wrote down the mileage to…
ON & OFF RHODES 