St. Helens Epic 2017

The St Helens Epic is an 80 mile, single loop, mountain bike ride that takes in some of the best (and hardest) trails that the Gifford Pinchot NF has to offer.  The word “epic” gets pretty abused/over used up here in the PNW, but if there is an event that I am going to deem…

NH Invasion: Day 1

Mia’s sister Martha, her husband Chuck, our nephew James and Mia’s mother Maggie are visiting us for a week. They flew in on Friday night around 9pm, beat from a day of travel, and when we finally got  home close to 10:30 they were all dragging because it felt closer to  1:30 east coast time….

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…