I started snowboarding on a used Rosignol with strap bindings. I was looking for a backcountry tool and before I could even really ride I started experimenting with plate bindings and plastic ski-mountaineering and climbing boots. I eventually learned to make turns in my Scarpas, but they were never really satisfactory. I couldn’t get around …
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BIKING ISN’T THE ONLY SPORT THAT REQUIRES A LOT OF GEAR CERTAIN FRIENDS CALL ME A GEARHEAD
April 10, 2010 Jerry, Alex and Carrie attempt Granite Mountain A spur of the moment ski tour. Weather was supposed to be warm with “filtered sunlight.” There’d been a couple feet of snow at pass level during the last week. The avalanche center was saying considerable danger over 5,000 ft. on Friday going …
March 10 – 14, 2007 Jerry and Will go to Bachelor Will flew home from college late on Friday night with his ski gear. Saturday we went to the Apple store to drop off his computer for repair and then hit the road for Bend. We drove over via Biggs Junction and it took exactly …
BOOKS THAT I’D LIKE TO OWN The Mountaineers, Freedom of the Hills, 2nd Ed. The Mountaineers, Freedom of the Hills, 3rd Ed David Brower, Manual of Ski Mountaineering, 2nd Ed (and any editions after the 3rd) Fred Beckey, Cascade Alpine Guide – Vol. 1, 1st Ed Fred Beckey, Cascade Alpine Guide – Vol. 3, 1st …
“New” wheels for the Stellar Somewhere around Y2K I bought Odette a Rodriguez Stellar. She had been riding a very heavy Hardrock and didn’t like going out with Will and me because she couldn’t keep up. It was the first expensive bike we owned – costing maybe $2,000 – and it made …
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From August 23rd to September 10th, 2024, Jerry and Odette rode a couple of loops on the tandem in Denmark and visited Copenhagen with Will. why Denmark Odette and I had talked for years about a trip to Scandinavia. She’s never seen the northern lights and I’m curious about the fjords. Last winter we started thinking …
From May 15th to May 22nd Jerry and Odette rode day trips on the tandem out of Bend, Oregon. Back around the beginning of 2024 Odette and I settled on a tandem trip to Scandinavia in 2024 – the thinking being that we ought to get in some …
Between November 5 and November 19 Jerry and Odette biked on Mallorca and visited museums in Madrid At the end of our summer trip to Alsace and Berlin I thought we had agreed to take a non-bike trip somewhere warm, instead of our usual ski trip. I put in a plug for Mallorca because I’d …
