The itch for bike camping returns

Bike Camping at Ainsworh SP/Columbia Gorge, 25 Aug 2020. Ricoh 35 ZF/AristaEDU 200. We're having some nice weather for the beginning of March. That snow and ice storm? So two weeks ago. How can you think about winter when the outside temp is nearing 60F? Not only do we have nicer weather, but the days...

What I did on my end-of-summer vacation.

I had eleven days off between Sunday September 17 and Wednesday September 27. Normally, I'd go on a bike tour, but as you may have read previously, with much of the state seemingly on fire and wet weather in the forecast for the first half of that time, I jettisoned any grand ambition of a...

Oxbow Bike Camping, 8-9 May 2017

And whaddaya know, some nice weather for once! After the previous week's summerlike weather, we had a day of rain, then it dried out and warmed up again. In fact, from Saturday May 6 through Wednesday May 10--the longest streak of dry weather we had since, ugh, January!* I did manage to snag a "three...

Bike Overnight to Oxbow Regional Park, 9-10 Feb 2016

Well, this report won't be a long one, but I will sum it up thusly: It happened! And it was good. I had nice weather early in the week, with sunny skies and a high nearing 60F/16C on Tuesday February 9. (Though there was a stiff easterly wind that day, and I biked into it.)...

Bike Overnight at Oxbow, plus a ride to Women’s Forum: 20-21 January 2015

A bike camping overnight a month. Intriguing concept, eh? I've definitely thought about doing a camping trip a month before, but after getting in a trip nine of the twelve months last year, I felt that would be a good goal again for 2015. Then along comes The Path Less Pedaled. On Monday, they threw down the gauntlet:...

Bike camping at Oxbow. Tomorrow, yes tomorrow. Tuesday January 20.

EDIT: Bumped times forward an hour. The challenge has been set by Path Less Pedaled: a bike camping trip a month! And the next couple days look good for January: Sun and clouds, no rain but maybe some fog, highs around 50F, low around 35F. Brad and I are going to camp at Oxbow Tuesday...

Bike Overnight to Oxbow: 30-31 July 2014

Hey, it's the end of July! (Though when you read this, it will be August.) I realized that I had only gotten in one bike camping overnight all month: the ill-fated expedition to Battle Ground Lake. I needed to remedy this situation, andget in one more bike overnight before July was over. I decided on...

Xmas Camping at Oxbow, 24-25 December 2013

If you asked me a week before the holiday, "What would you be doing on Christmas?" I would have probably not answered camping. But camping is what I did. And that was thanks to one man, Chris Chen. Chris is a thinker of the unconventional. Besides being the founder of the Sunrise Coffee Club, he...