Oregon Beach Cleanup The Oregon beaches have been beautiful…BUT what has been absolutely appalling is the amount of trash and microplastics washing up on their gorgeous shores. We picked up this pile of trash on the beach you see in the background in the space of 15 minutes. Coincidentally, I received a petition from Greenpeace … Read more
North Umpqua Bike Trail Our plan after Crater Lake National Park was to ride the North Umpqua IMBA epic trail. It’s a 75-mile long bike/hike trail stretching from just north of Crater Lake NP along the Umpqua River, and finishing just before the city of Roseburg. We found a great little campground called Umpqua’s Last … Read more
Crater Lake National Park We visited another National Park today – exciting because it has been a while! From where we were camping at Waldo Lake last night, we drove south about an hour and a half to visit Crater Lake National Park. The lake was formed 12k years ago after a volcano a thousand … Read more
Bend Oregon Camping The best part of Bend Mountain biking was accessibility to trails. We camped in the Deschutes National Forest which is only 5 miles from Bend downtown. NF-4610 has at least 10+ of sites on it, however about 1/4 mile in, the road gets a little sketchy but we were able to navigate (white knuckled … Read more