Being back in NH gives me a chance to hike in the White Mountains and gives Paul a chance to knock some more peaks off his NH 4,000 footer list. We had decided a couple months ago to shoot for the Carters which includes 4 peaks over 4K feet, but only 3 count because of…
I Could Get Used to This
We’re on day one of our vacation and some friends of ours were gracious enough to let us stay at their lake house on Northwood Lake. Severe storms in the northeast delayed our departure from the northwest by about 90 minutes. This meant that we had a quick reminder to the quiet NH way of…
Lava Cast Forest
Day 2 in Bend started out with a trip to The Dough Nut just up the street from our rental. Pretty good, didn’t surpass my favorite find in Oregon so far (Blue Star Donuts), but I will definitely go back. Codi was pretty wiped out from our Green Lakes Hike, so the goal was to…
Green Lakes Hike
Mia signed up for the Bend, OR GRIT Clinic several months ago, so too bad for us, we had to make a weekend trip down to Bend. That’s always such a tough decision, and it’s never any fun coming here. (yes, that is all sarcasm). Since we’d be bringing the dog we wanted to rent…
Nice Surprise
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…
Elk Meadows and Mountain Hike
This was one of those weekends that you live for. Temps in the 90’s, sunny, dry. Just plain awesome! I took full advantage of it too. I did 40 miles with the Portland Velo Saturday Ride which went up Dairy Creek this week. On the way back down I hooked up with Mia as she was riding…
ON & OFF RHODES 