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....
Anthony Lakes
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...
Elkhorn Crest Trail
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...
Waterfall!
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...
Zumwalt Prairie Ride
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...
Chief Joseph Day
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...
Spring Mountain Gravel Route
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...
Catherine Creek South Fail
Our friends at Dirty Freehub had a proposed gravel route that needed vetting so we checked it out. We broke it into two separate loops and rode the first loop the other day and posted about it here. The...
Umatilla Rim Trail Loop
I heard from several people that this trail was worth the hour drive from where we are boondocking. It was. Our mountain bike loop was 23.2 miles with 2622′ of climbing up to the highpoint of 5251′. It was...
Catherine Creek Gravel Ride
There are a maze of gravel roads and old logging roads around La Grande. We let our mountain bikes rest a day and rode our gravel bikes on a remote loop. Our loop ride was 27.9 miles with 2716′...