Bigger adventures needing more than a weekend away from Portland
I didn’t exactly set out with a goal of riding all the Scenic Bikeways in Oregon, but it does sort of seem like somewhere along the line I’ve gone in that direction. Perhaps mostly because they’re a good excuse to get out somewhere that I might not otherwise go (like …
Back when I was in Glacier National Park, camping out in the Many Glacier hiker/biker site, I met a super awesome fellow–we’ll call him Jason–from Corvallis. Jason was on the tail end of a four-week bike trip that took him from Corvallis through Oregon, the Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, a bunch …
Okay, so you want to go to Glacier National Park, and you don’t think you want to drive. How does it work? (no car necessary to stand near Dawson Pass;) On my recent trip there, I knew, positively, the following: One can get on the “Empire Builder” Amtrak train in …
I’m back from Glacier! Needless to say, it was pretty darn amazing, in no small part because of this kind of thing: (okay, that particular bear was from Alaska a few years ago. But I did see a bunch of grizzlies:) But more later in a real post. The important …
