Last year I convinced three friends to race the Oregon 24 Hr Mountain Bike Race. However a forest fire pushed the race out a few weeks into October and pretty much all of us had conflicts. Mike Ripley (the race director) allowed teams to move their registration to the 2018 event if you couldn’t make…
Suffering Alone (AKA Solo Rides)
What happens when you try to get a group ride together and nobody shows up? First you ponder (albeit briefly) if anyone likes you, then you continue on your merry way and have a fun ride. I emailed a bunch of friends to see who wanted to do the Barlow-Bonney-Bennet Loop (I call it the…
Indian Heaven: Thomas to Blue Lake
Imagine 20,000 acres of pristine wilderness, toss in over 150+ lakes and quite literally thousands of wild huckleberry bushes and you get the Indian Heaven Wilderness. All three of us had been here before and then Codi and I on another quick backpacking trip. As the Pacific Northwest gets a brief respite from the heat,…
While You Where Out…
Yup, it has been a little while since I last posted something. Generally I am one of those people who despises the excuse of being too busy. Every commercial nowadays is about how busy we all are and how this and that can make your life easier. I personally subscribe to the Laurens ten Dam…
Music to Soothe the Savage Beast
I was planning on sitting down and writing a bit about the Sisters Stampede and hiking twin lakes with Mia and Codi as Mia gets ready to run Mary’s Peak Trail Race. Both were fantastically fun and Mia and I both love Sisters (almost as much as Winthrop). But something amazing happened this week. Something…
Silver Star Prison Break 2018
After two aborted attempts earlier this year to get this ride up and running Brian Hart shot for a 3rd attempt scheduled for May 20th. The last two attempts were foiled by snowfall and impassable (on a bike) roads because of said snow. Well Brian nailed it this weekend. The weather was darn near perfect and…
ON & OFF RHODES 