Good rides in and around Portland. Or just good riding adventures, sometimes with the Oregon Randonneurs
At some point earlier this year, a younger version of me signed myself up for a trail half marathon in Silver Falls State Park, and then promptly forgot about it. So when I got back from Eastern Oregon and Idaho in September and got an email about day-of race information, …
So, Portland has this awesome park, a park that is over 5100 acres, a park with a running/hiking trail that’s 27 miles long, a park crisscrossed by more than seventy miles of other trails, a park that, in parts, still feels like wilderness. That park, of course, is Forest Park. …
One of my absolute favorite things about Portland is how easy it is to get out of the city — like actually out into nature, where you can ride through big trees and camp and see the stars and everything — without having a car. The Columbia River Gorge, with …
That’s right. Another Sunday that I’m in town; another shop ride from Gladys Bikes. This week’s installment will take us wending through some lesser-known streets of Northeast and North Portland to Pier Park, whereupon we will marvel in wonder at the humongous trees and, if we’re feeling spunky, show up …
