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Bigger adventures needing more than a weekend away from Portland

When your bike trip doesn’t quite work out: part 2

Sometimes, when you make another plan to go somewhere exciting, the entire Columbia River Gorge catches on fire, and you have to re-evaluate. Thus it is that my much-anticipated bike-and-backpack around Mt Adams trip has become instead a Vancouver Island bike-and-train-and-ferry-(and, hopefully, still backpacking) trip. It took me a bit …

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stasia September 7, 2017 September 7, 2017Bigger Adventures 1

When you’re the wrong kind of bike tourist

  The city of Sisters, OR is not particularly close to Portland, especially for someone with no car, yet somehow I find myself there on my bike an awful lot. Perhaps because it’s just on the other side of McKenzie Pass (definitely my favorite way over the Cascade mountains), but …

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stasia June 25, 2017 June 25, 2017Bigger Adventures, Infrastructure 10

The Bikes of Las Vegas — or — Bikey Fun in the Desert

So, until last week, Las Vegas was probably the bottom of the list of places I ever thought I would visit. Gambling, excess, and debauchery is not really my thing, and that’s kind of what I figured Las Vegas was all about. And then my bitty brother bought a house …

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stasia April 11, 2017 April 11, 2017Bigger Adventures 2

Lookout Mountain: on seizing the moment

Back in September, I was making my way via bicycle through North Cascades National Park. I was not quite a week in and had just emerged from my very first backpack-by-bike experience: after getting backcoutry permits and the requisite bear canister from the ranger station in Marblemount, I’d ridden my …

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stasia February 22, 2017 February 23, 2017Bigger Adventures 10
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