Call me what you will but spending over 7 hours in the saddle for a ride is a sure fire way to have a good day. I’m also going to have to say that I am grateful for a wife who understands that I need to, every once in a while, go out on a…
Tag: gravel riding
Crown Zellerbach Trail
I’ve been wanting to ride the Crown Zellerbach Trail for some time now. However I always wanted to do it as a loop from home and come back down the Banks Vernonia Trail for about a 100 mile mixed surface ride. I couldn’t bring myself to just drive out to Scappoose just to ride the…
Hell of the North Plains v3
The folks over at Our Mother the Mountain (OMTM) sent word out for the first official “unofficial non-event” gravel ride of 2018, The Hell of the North Plains v3 loop was on tap. Pretty much the first half of this loop was the same last last year, but after we started the climb up Strassel…
Cold Dose of Gravel
The weather has been chilly but exceptionally dry lately the weekend forecast was for more of the same so I sent out a request earlier this week to see if anyone wanted join me on a Klickitat Trail ride. I was lucky enough to be joined by Mark and John for this little journey. We…
Long Rides and Warm Temps
I’ll blame Dean for this one…..he brought up the idea of the St. Helens Epic and I was all over it! It’s going to be a LONG day, but it is going to be a lot of fun (I must remember that). The name of the game over the past few weekends has to get…
Mosier Mayhem V2 – 2017
There is something about gravel rides out of the Mosier/Hood River area. They are hard! It is a toss up between last years Gorge Ground Up and this weekend’s ride to tell which was harder. This weekend’s ride was a “non-event” put together by the folks over at Our Mother The Mountain. We ended up…
ON & OFF RHODES 