Author: chris

Distance: 65 avg: 11.6 We camped away from the road mostly hidden from view. We woke to bright sunshine, the first such morning in a while. It was very welcome and we spread our gear out to maximize drying time. Today’s stops included Richland, Halfway( yep, that’s the name of the town), and Hell’s Canyon.…

Distance: 72 avg: 11.6 I’ve been topping out at some of these downhill at 35-37 mph. I don’t spin tho because that causes a shimmy. Today had some pretty great downhills where I stayed above 30 for a while. The climbs were nice, too. We had a lot of snow and it helped keep us…

Distance: 60 avg: 9.6 Me and John rode the whole day together, which provided some good company and some interesting conversations. The day was 52 miles of climbing, sometimes slow, sometimes more. Plus another 8 or so miles of downhill. We ran into some heavy rain but went through it fine and dried off. We…

Distance: 85 avg: 13.6 Today’s biking was probably some of the best I’ve ever seen. A couple quick climbs and some amazing downhill that went on forever. I pushed my Surly up to 37.2 mph. I probably could have gone faster but chickened out. 😛 Last night another ‘cycling enthusiast’ showed up at camp. His…

Trout fishing that is! Today was a rest day and I had a mission: learn to fish! I haven’t fished since I was 10, and everywhere I went there were people fishing. People even had fish-shaped mailboxes. So I felt it was time. I got some tips from the locals. My fishing guru became Wally,…

Distance: 66 avg: 13.6 Due to the problems on the mountains earlier today had a fair amount of delays. I had to repair my brakes to the point that I could get to Sisters. I also ripped my trousers yesterday and had to sew them up. Strangely I brought a sewing kit( thanks paola) but…

Distance: 48 avg: 9.1 Today was the first day where I brushed with death. I knew today would be intense but it turned out to be extremely dangerous. The day started well enough. It rained through the night, but the clouds released and a beautiful morning shined through. I got on my bike and headed…

Distance 62 miles avg: 12.6 Today I had some equipment issues to deal with. My sleeping bag is not warm enough for the coming weather. Plus overall my clothing is not warm enough and it was mostly cotton. So today I replaced a lot of my gear and got some new stuff. It was quite…

One of the fastest ways to change the temperature of something is to pass air over it. This is the most efficient heat transfer method, ‘convection’. So I took a pound of frozen ground beef and strapped it to my bike. And voilà, 15 miles later and it’s totally thawed!

The university of Oregon has the biggest. And yes, I ate the whole thing, to my own detrement.