Tracking the miles, finding the loop

The Bantam at Mount Tabor, 4 September 2022. Olympus XA2/Fujicolor 200 At the start of the year I decided to track the miles I rode. This was done primarily to have some sort of metric of the riding I do. If I want to "ride more", I need to know how much I already ride....

Up to Powell Butte, 28 August 2022

Olympus XA2/Fujicolor 200 Ah, Powell Butte. Sitting on the far southeast edge of Portland, it's an extinct volcanic butte of 600 feet in elevation. Unlike some of the other buttes in Portland, like Rocky Butte or Mount Tabor, Powell Butte is wide, with a wide-open meadow dominating the plateau-like top. It's a great place to...

Two rides for October: Bikes and Film Cameras Club and East Portland Cemeteries

Powell Grove Cemetery, 30 October 2021. Minolta Hi-Matic 7s/Ilford XP2+ Hey folks! While September is a great time to lead bike rides in Portland due to nice weather, I won't be doing any this September. My life is going to be consumed by work for much of it. So consumed I won't even be able...

Ride Report: Creek Country Ramblers, 13 August 2022

Johnson Creek at Johnson Creek Park. Olympus XA2/Fujicolor 100 I love exploring Johnson Creek, the waterway that marks the southern boundary of the city of Portland. I've featured it on several rides I've done. But I've never made the creek (and several of its tributaries) the focus of a ride. So I was excited to...

Ride Report: Sunset/Moonrise Ride, 11 August 2022

Camera: Minolta SR-T 101. Lens: Minolta Celtic MC 135mm f/3.5 Film: Lomography 800 Thursday August 11th was a long and tough day for me. I had to wake up at 6, and my morning and afternoon was dealing with transporting a stage (via UHaul truck) and setting it up/dismantling. This was all for my day...

My Pedalpalooza 2022 report, as we are in the final month

It's the final month of Pedalpalooza, Portland's summer-long bicycle fun fest. Last time we checked in I had went on the Kickoff Ride on June 1st, Tom Howe's Know Your Greenways Ride on June 8, and then the first two rides I have led: Sunset/Moonrise and the Gorge Ride. Since that report on June 27,...

Ride Report: Sunset/Moonrise Ride, 13 July 2022

Riding along the Marine Drive bike path, 13 July 2022. Canon Snappy K/Kodak Gold 200 Initially I thought that I would be out of town for July's full moon, but when that trip didn't materialize I decided to add another Sunset/Moonrise Ride to the Pedalpalooza calendar. I always have fun on this ride, so why...

Ride Report: Old Libraries Ride N/NE, 11 July 2022

Peering through the window of the old University Park branch, 11 July 2022. Minolta Hi-Matic 7s/Kosmo Foto Agent Shadow 400 Monday July 11th was a hot day, with heat much like we've seen in the week I am typing this (July 27): a high somewhere between 95 and 100 F (35 to 38 C). It's...