Wednesday, July 28, 2010

A Weekend in Oakridge

This past weekend Thor and I, and a whole pile of our friends rolled down to Oakridge for a weekend of fabulous biking and camping. Thor headed out of town early to snag a campsite on the Middle Fork of the Willamette - and the rest of us trickled in throughout the evening on Friday.

Saturday's plan was to get up and ride the Middle Fork of the Willamette - which is about a 28-mile trail running from Timpanogas Lake down to near where the Middle Fork dumps into the Hills Creek Resovoir. It was amazing! The upper section was all downhill - which was a blast - then there was a slightly less amazing middle section where we had to carry our bikes a lot - and then the final 8-10 miles which roll along the river and are just super fast and flowy.

Thor with the truck getting ready to run the shuttle on Saturday

I didn't manage to keep myself that clean - and I broke off a piece of stick in my leg. Ouch!
Our 'swimming hole' right next to our campsite - so pleasant for our post-bike swims!
Sunday we headed up to the Alpine area to ride - it was gorgeous - the trees are huge and it was just a magical ride!



2 comments:

  1. That is a grim looking leg!!! You better go easy on me when I go biking with you.

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  2. Nice shots -- funny that we have the same blog post title -- you and Dave must think alike :)

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