What’s 22 days and 1300 miles long, encompasses three states, involves a few bears, and is sometimes wet, soggy, or frozen? Give up? A bike trip through Montana!! Heh. I know, you all knew the punchline already since I’ve been posting random snippets of it for the last few weeks. …
Sometimes, I do stupid things. Like leave my house without my keys. And often, I don’t realize I’ve done a stupid thing until it’s sort of too late to fix it, at least for the short-term. This morning, for example, I met my friend at Planet Granite for some early-morning …
Those of you in Portland are probably familiar with the Wildwood Trail, that famed, switchbacking, roundabout trail that snakes its way from one end of Forest Park to the other and then a few miles into Washington Park as well. It’s a fantastic thing to have nearby: 30.2 miles of …
Something I hadn’t thought about when scheming a bike trip through Montana to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons National Parks: bringing bear spray. Do you know bear spray? It’s basically pepper spray on crack, meant to be your last line of defense against a charging (and probably grizzly) bear. I …
