Even though we lived in Bend for 16 years, we didn’t spend a whole lot of time on the coast or in the valley. As we travel north to the Olympic Peninsula we are stopping over in some new and old places. I hate driving. I know that sounds weird for someone who travels full …
Woods Canyon Lake Hike is a few miles from where we are boondocking for a couple weeks up on the Mogollon Rim in Arizona. We like lakes and figured we’d hike around this one. The lake itself is fairly small at only 55 acres but the arms reach in and out of the canyon making …
With temps heating into the 90’s we decided to head to high country and try out a new loop. This route took us up a rough dirt road to the ghost town Alta Lakes with a handful of crumbling sites, on up further to some lakes, and ended with a swooping descent down Magic Meadows …
McPhee Reservoir is the fifth largest lake in Colorado and has a really fun trail that goes along the rim. We’ve ridden it before and love this ride so did it again! The dam was constructed and is operated by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and dams the Dolores River to furnish municipal and …
Opened in 1963, 69-acre Lake Roberts, about one hour’s drive north of Silver City. We are boondocking a few miles from Lake Roberts in the Gila National Forest and took a quick and chilly morning hike around the lake one day. It’s a fishing lake, in fact signs warn there is no swimming or wading …
After being in dry climates the last 4 years of traveling, we totally forgot about the suckyness of poison oak. We mountain biked around Lost Creek Lake one day and while the trail is gorgeous, poison oak got us. At it’s max, the lake is 10 miles and the trail is only on one side …
After taking a couple short travel days, we arrived at Annie Springs in Crater Lake National Park in a blizzard. What are we doing here you ask? Derek and I are living in our trailer here over the summer and earning some extra money. He is working as a chef and I am working in …
Derek and I drove the short distance to Lake Almanor one day to ride the path that skirts one side of the lake. It’s paved but heavily covered in tree branches, needles, and pine cones from the winter. We started at the PG&E damn and rode to the end and back for 22.2 miles with …
So many lakes! We rode to four lakes our first day in the area, and to another lake the other day so figured we would keep the theme going. This last ride to Barker Lake was a beast. There are a couple different options for how to ride this but we opted for an out …
Wow! The internet didn’t have much info on this trail but we took a chance and it paid off. Yes, this was a really hard climb and I’m betting only a handful of people ride it each year. This out and back was 16.1 miles with 2904′ of climbing up to the highpoint of 8186′ …