Category: Bicycle Rides
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25 photos from Switzerland, part 5
Photos 21-25 Here we are, the final 5 photos of Eriks’ and my trek across Switzerland. This first photo picks back up on Day 8 of the tour, in the Alps south of Interlaken. This photo is (I believe) from the same area as the final photo in the last series, a wonderfully remote-feeling, yet…
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Desert Solitude: The Anza-Borrego backcountry 60 miler
Well, the best laid January plans inevitably lead to something-something unlaid plans. After a seemingly normal start to the new year, come mid-February, it started raining and then it kept raining. It continues to rain. It has just been absolutely one of the toughest, greyest winters I’ve ever experienced out here. But the rain hasn’t…
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Roofs of interest in Washington County. Or Portland-Gaston-Netarts
This route is not an original creation. It’s one of Donnie Kolb’s, the grandpappy of Oregon Off-Road cycling (from approximately 2010-2015). I’ve looked at this track on VeloDirt for years, and now that VeloDirt is gone, OMTM is kind enough to still host it. But hold on, let’s start further back. Since becoming a Dad,…
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Where do the horses go when they die?
If you seek solitude, look no further This February heatwave continues, and I got to thinking about routes that are normally not accessible at this time of year but have been on my to do list. OMTM developed the Rajneeshpuram Roundup a couple years ago as a late Spring route, and I’d wanted to do…
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Solo Photo Trip in the Dalles
A visit to Obrist Cemetery & an abandoned farmstead We’re enjoying a warm spell here in Oregon, and with an empty calendar day on a Thursday in mid-February, I decided to drive out to the Dalles to get a good ride in and check out a cemetery that had caught my eye on google. I…
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Ashford-Packwood-Ashford
An experiment in multi-modal technologies Hello friends and readers, I’ve decided to start my blogging career by writing about a nice day in the summer of 2021. The pretext of this ride is that Dan had recently sold his mountain bike, and yet, I wanted to go on a bike ride with Dan, so I…