Bigger adventures needing more than a weekend away from Portland
Heh. That’s right — this chica is parked in a public library in Idaho, taking a break from baking my brain on the long-sunny-hot ride in from Montana. I didn’t really have a chance to write about it before I left, but this still mostly the beginning of a three-week …
Check this out: a whole string of Cascade volcanoes, starting with Broken Top, then moving, left to right, to South, Middle, and North Sisters, then, smaller, Mt Washington, 3-Fingered Jack, then Mt Jefferson. Just out of the frame after that is Mt Hood: Cascade volcanoes stretching right from where …
It’s pretty sweet to live in a part of the world where I can get out into the wilderness on a bicycle in a day. With 5 precious days off last week, I wanted to strap on a backpack and walk into the backcountry, like way the heck off …
… Which is to say, messily, with piles of things accumulating around the living room and scandalizing the household until, tomorrow morning, it all comes together into two panniers and some random bike bags and I’m off! (is that a bear can I spy??:) It may not be …
