Derek and I first rode this mixed gravel/paved route back in 2016 and loved it. Since then, Dirty Freehub has produced a modified route that adds on a section down to Priest Hole and around. It’s a great route but not for novice gravel riders. If you are new to gravel I’d stick to the …
Month: September 2021
Derek and I rode Lookout Mountain loop back in 2004 with Cogwild and instantly loved it. The loop is 19.5 miles with 3654′ of climbing up to 6931′. The weather was a bit iffy and we got sprinkled on at one point. This made for less than clear views but we enjoyed them anyway. My …
We are inching our way closer to Bend for a visit. After a quick ride around Phillips Lake where we were camped, we picked up and moved to the Ochocos. We are boondocking in the forest on familiar turf. Back when we lived in Bend we rode the Cougar Creek Trail as an out and …
Sumpter, OR is a tiny town with a lot of gold mining history. Derek planned a gravel loop that took us up from camp through some back gravel logging roads to Sumpter where we stopped and toured the Dredge. Then we crossed over and climbed around some gravel roads on the lake side of the …
Our original plan was to camp for a week up at Anthony Lakes…until we saw the weather forecast of below freezing overnight temps and highs in the 40’s. So instead we camped lower and drove up to the mountain to ride one day. Anthony Lakes Ski Mountain is remote. It’s a 40 minute drive from …
The Elkhorn Crest Trail has been our bucket list for quite some time. In the almost three years that we have been traveling fulltime and checking off places to go, things to see, trails to hike and ride, and life to live, this one is especially sweet because it’s in Oregon where we lived for …
After a hard day on the bikes yesterday, we opted for a hike to get back into the wilderness where bikes aren’t allowed. We hiked out to some falls in the Eagle Cap Wilderness Our hike was 6.7 miles with around 1000′ of elevation gain though it did seem like more than that. The hike …
This remote gravel ride through the Zumwalt Prairie was extremely pretty and diverse. We took our mountain bikes on this one because the route we planned was pretty rough and chunky. Our out and back was 24 miles with 3372′ of climbing. The Chief Joseph band of the Nez Perce were the original human inhabitants …
For the first time ever, we’re out in Eastern Oregon. We spent our first day doing a couple short hikes just to get out and see some stuff. There are a ton of hikes out in the Wallowas and most of them are pretty big. My knee couldn’t handle any of that so our short …
Derek found another gravel exploration option for us to explore close to where we are boondocking. We road mountain bikes on this lollipop ride since we weren’t sure of what we would find. Our ride was 23.6 miles with 2019’ of climbing. We started on a wide gravel road called National Development Road 031 that …