Chehalem Ridge and Wine Country Trip, 4-5 February 2023

Near Penner-Ash Wine Cellars, 5 Feb 2023. Minolta SR-T 101-MC Rokkor PG 50mm f/1.4-Cinestill 400D Emee's event planning company typically facilitates a big event during the first week of February. When the seminar is done, we are pretty burnt and in need of rest and relaxation. I proposed that we would spend the night at...

A visit to the cabins: Stub Stewart Bike Camping Trip, 5-8 February 2022

Riding through Washington County farmland between Forest Grove and Banks, 6 Feb 2022. Olympus XA2/Kodak ColorPlus 200 It's been awhile. My last bike camping/touring typed thing was the Oregon Coast Tour in August, six months ago. Despite wanting to do something in September or perhaps October, bike issues nixed that idea. Tent camping in the middle of winter is a...

Trip Report: Stub Stewart cabins bike camping trip, New Years 2020

This isn't my first Stub Stewart cabin rodeo! Nope, after this trip, I've stayed at the cabins at Stub Stewart State Park a total of seven times: Three of them Cycle Wild New Years Trips in 2011, 2012, and 2013, plus a non New Year Cycle Wild Trip in 2014. There was the trip with...

Affordable Luxury: The Pseudo Bike Touring Edition

The Grand Lodge.I am not what you would call “a man of many luxuries”. Maybe it’s my working class upbringing, maybe it’s my disdain for conspicuous consumption, or maybe it’s because I’m broke all the time. (I think the last one has the biggest influence on it.) But I’m not a man without any luxury....

Back To Stub (and other errata)

Stub Stewart cabins in snow, New Years 2011.It's been a slow bike week around ye olde Urban Adventure League HQ. I haven't had "bike fun" since last Thursday's ride. I did have the whole weekend off, but the weather was pretty dismal so I didn't get out there for fun besides peeping the 4449 on...

More Ache than Elation: Verboort Populaire 2012

A brief respite on the Trestle.Weather. It's unpredictability is...predictable. The big plan for Friday, November 2 was ride the thirty-odd miles from my home in Portland to Forest Grove, where I would be staying at the McMenamins Grand Lodge. I needed to warm up for all the riding on Saturday, and it would give me...