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Throwback Thursday – The Solstice Tree
Walter, Andy and I decorated a random tree out in the woods on Solstice Day. The snow was deep and it took us several attempts to get up the ridge. We tried Pinemont Road and I got stuck. Even with chains on his KLR, my brother didn't make it...
Throwback Thursday: Beaver Creek Run Part 3
Beaver Creek Run Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 It was early afternoon but it seemed much later. The sky was dark and the clouds came right down to the pavement in torrents. Water streamed across every flat surface, cold and black and dirty. When we got to Corvallis we...
Throwback Thursday: Beaver Creek Run Part 2
Beaver Creek Run Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Just before Seal Rock, we turned left onto Beaver Creek Road. We rode several miles up into the hills before we came to the farm where the party was. A steep muddy driveway led from the road into...
Spotted from the truck
Mike and I were out poking around the forest with my dogs Sunday. We found one good chanterelle, some witches butter and a bunch of soggy mush. Snow level in the Columbia Gorge has dipped below 2000'. We stumbled into some...
Winter Traction – The Bacon Tour
These videos are part of a series documenting the 2010 Bacon Tour see them all at Adventure Sidecar on Vimeo We spent the weekend driving on ice in the mountains east of Hood River. Mr. Cob had a two wheel drive Ural with...
Good Morning
9/19/25 6:00 53F (11.6C) It is a dark blue twilight. The earth takes a breath and leaves flutter in the faint breeze. A Turkish moon hangs in the east. Just a fingernail, ready to wink out, with Venus hovering over the southern horn. ...
Good Morning
9/18/25 6:30 54F (12.2C) Another calm, dark morning. The waning moon pokes its horns through the maple leaves. The sky dances with color. Morning ascends as twilight loses its grip on the night and slips away. ...
Good Morning
9/17/25 6:30 53F (11.6C) A lone crow, voice raw and cracking, flys north across the empty vault . The east begins to lighten, first a brilliant blue, brighter than the rest of the sky, changing hue, lavender, orange, yellow, before blending into a...
Good Morning
9/16/25 7:00 50F (10C) I look up into the pale blue sky. There is no wind. Birds are chattering, dogs bark. There are cars moving this morning; tires whirring and the burble of muffled exhaust announce their passing. I slept well last night and...
Good Morning
9/15/25 7:00 48F (8.8C) It is a cool morning, dark and breezy. The waning quarter moon rests on its back above a maple tree. The eastern sky begins to lighten, shades of lavender creeping into dark blue. A gunshot booms. A dog begins to bark....
