A Trip Home

Mia and I just spent the last week back in New Hampshire visiting for the first time in 16 months (excluding my whirlwind trip for my grandfather’s funeral). Before moving out to Oregon, I had basically spent my whole life living in New Hampshire, and excluding college in Plymouth, NH never more than 20 miles…

RLT 1,000(ish) Mile Review

I’ve had the Niner RLT for about 4 months now and have got well over 1,000 miles on it now, probably closer to 1,200 if I really think about it. I’ve only made a few additional changes since it’s original review.  I swapped out the stock bars for my preferred Ritchey Logic II in a…

Random Stuff

Been a bit hectic the past few weeks with flying back to NH for my grampa’s funeral, moving offices at work, and preparing for vacation. Anyways, I missed a chance to post specifically about Goat Lake. Needless to say, it’s a wicked awesome overnight hike.  Highest I have ever camped, and yes, we got to…

100 Years

I had to make an unexpected visit back to NH on Friday of last week.  My Grampa Palmer passed away after a short illness.  Grampa just recently turned 100 on July 26th. It’s amazing to me what my grandfather got to see in his life.  From 1914 to 2014 he has seen some of the…

Plains of Abraham

Finally got to do one of the PNW epic rides yesterday with Juston Manville!  We’ve been waiting for a weekend were we both have free time at the same time, plus good weather.  Saturday was most certainly that day. After watching the finish of the Tour stage, we hit the road for the hour(ish) ride…

Hagg Lake Duathlon

Raced in the Hagg Lake Duathlon yesterday, put on by the folks over at AA Sports Ltd.  I’ve now done their Spring Classic Duathlon and the Blue Lake Duathlon put on by these guys.  The events are really well run and they always have live music and some decently good food included with your race…