Ideas for camping within a day’s ride from Portland
This last week officially marked the real start of bike camping season for me. It’s a little late this year, I think, for a few reasons. One is that during my first break of the year, when last year I took advantage of the time to take a mini trip …
Speaking of crazy weather… A looooong time ago, my buddy Pete, who I met forever ago on a Cycle Wild trip, planned a weekend cabin-camping bike excursion to Stub Stewart. In fact, his planning is what initially reminded me that cabin camping was even an option, and what led to …
A few weeks ago, when I realized that I had both Veteran’s Day and the day before it off, I’d schemed a mini adventure for myself: bike out to Stub Stewart State Park Wednesday night after work and spend two weekday nights in a cabin there — running, hiking, reading, …
The best thing ever about working in the hinterlands of Gresham (sorry, Greshamites, but it sure feels like the hinterlands from my house!) — the best thing about that is that it’s actually closer to get to work from an old-growth-forest campground than it is to get to work from …
