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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Christmas 2010

Wishing a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
James and Cassie.



A few other snaps.
Snowshoeing Trillium Lake.
Yeah someone found some Yakima snowshoes!


L-R. Dave, Cassie, Robin @ Trillium Lake , Mt Hood, Oregon.


Trillium Lake, Mt.Hood, Oregon


Cassie


Trillium lake, Mt.Hood, Oregon.


Trillium lake, Mt.Hood, Oregon.


Santa Monica Pier- LA. November 16th 2010


Santa Monica Pier, L.A. Nov 16th 2010

Concept Audi Quattero at the 2010 LA Autoshow (click for loadsa pics)


Concept Jaguar at the 2010 LA Autoshow


James and Cassie at a Beavers American Football Game. (October 30th)

The end of Autumn

The West Hills sunset on my ride home, early Autumn.


Soemtimes a wheelie is all it takes for a smile before the winter months set in.
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Friday, October 29, 2010

Portland, September October 2010

September brings rain, and my friend from Ohio State University (Feebie) then a bit of canoeing to start the season, then into mud, Cyclocross, rain, mud, shitty commutes to work and beautiful views. The last week (october) it started snowing in the mountains, so time to dust of the old snowboard and give her a go again.

 The Pacific Northwest Coastline

 Feebie, James and Tyler.

Smugglers Cove, also known as Oswald West just off of Hwy 101.
Feebie on Cannon beach








Canoeing on the Columbia

Friend Alan with his son Tyler



Cassie


 Barlow Cyclocross race.




 Getting Pinned Up



 
yep awesome

City light - on way home from work



my morning commute might be the best in the country

Misty morning Bike Commute
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Friday, September 17, 2010

Oregon Stampede 2010 : an epically proportioned bike race

An epicly proportioned bike race.

Summary: A rural bike race set in east Oregon, a few hundred miles east of Portland. Lots of miles on gravel roads riding with my team in the Dalles (east of mount hood), lots of climbing and beautiful views of mountains , fields , sunsets and rurality

Team Beer (6 blokes and 2 girls) set off  Friday night, the race starts early early Saturday. We jumped in a hotel room just outside the Dalles of which all 8 of us crammed in. Matt Case, who we suspect is illiterate showed us that he could read, we think he was just pretending, what a divvy. the girls Sharon and Taylor took the bed the boys got the floor. Needless to say the room smelt pretty bad the next morning.
Here are some of my fav photos that I took. But there is a whole album of crackers if you click the link.

Matt Case pretends he knows how to read the night before.
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Off to the race dang early
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All the loosers at the start. 7am bright and early.
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Taylor hammers it up the hill.
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Tons of this awaits us.
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Great view of Columbia river and the Dalles from the top of a climb.
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Rustic Countryside shit
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Many a hill to come:
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A few ruins and countryside shit.
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A few odd buildings out in the middle of now where!
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Mountains and Mountains in the distance
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Still tons of gravel:
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Just letting people know:
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A few shop stops when available, load up on snacks n water.
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Clearly stated, this was most of the ride
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Awesome:
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The road climbing begins:
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On top of the world:
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More Pretty:
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Rural buildings:
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The sun gets lower:
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Time to kick out the last 30miles and hope we don't get caught in the dark.
From Oregon Stampede 2010
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After this, it was too dark to take photos:
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We managed to get back to the car just after dark, thats a long day on a bike. The last 5 miles were pretty sketchy, very tired and no lights! Great team time, one of the best rides I have done in my life!

 Here are some stats.
127 miles
9521 ft of climbing (905 meters of uphill)
13 hours, 5 minutes out on the course
34 mph on the final gravel descent by Clint and I in the pitch dark with no
lights
70+ miles of gravel.
Great team experience.

Here's the route http://connect.garmin.com/activity/48703683

Cheers!
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