My brother is an airline pilot and sometimes ends up in the PNW when he is on-call. Usually it’s Seattle, and it’s usually on short notice. last time he was there was a couple months ago, but we were booked for the weekend and couldn’t make it up. Well on Thursday morning I got a…
Category: Rides
Helvetia Tavern Loop
Mia and I signed up for the Crater Lake Rim Tour in late August, we’ve got almost 3 months to get ready for over 7,000′ of climbing in 60 miles. So today was a bit of a chance to do some shorter climbs and enjoy some nice local views. Helvetia Tavern is less than 5…
Bluberries and Clover
Nothing profound or life changing today. Mia and I just did a nice simple ride and enjoyed some comfortable temps and puffy clouds. Wicked psyched to see how far along the blueberries are. We should be picking about 2-3 weeks early this year from the looks of it. You can see the berries from the…
Mudslinger XC
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…
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…
ON & OFF RHODES 