Bigger adventures needing more than a weekend away from Portland
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 …
With four days off in a row the other week, before my new job started, I decided to go to the coast. A good college friend of mine is out near Lincoln City living in a cabin for the next three months, and back when I wasn’t sure if I’d …
