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…

Running Sucks!

While I was running home on Wednesday after work I felt a little twinge in my right calf and hamstring with less than 1/3 of a mile to go.  I managed to make it home and stretched everything out.  However during the evening and all day Thursday it felt like a slight strain and was…

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…

Silver Star Prison Break 2

For the second consecutive year I did the Silver Star Prison Break.  This year it was Juston, Paul and myself headed out to Washougal, WA for the ride.  Once again it was a pretty good turn out based on the number of cars in the parking lot.  I have no idea what the official count…

Timber Logjam II

Saturday marked the second “event” by the Unpaved/OMTM guys.  This one was the Timber Logjam and would cover a lot of territory familiar to me from my own personal rides.  I’ve just never hooked it all together like this and I did get to learn some new roads too. Since the Hell of the North…

Tinkering

For the first time in a few weeks I felt like this weekend was fairly open.  We didn’t need to be anywhere for anything at any specific time, so I took advantage of that as much as possible. Dean and I got in an early ride on Saturday.  He was on the road to my…