Howdy from Bend, hope all is well on the gentle island. We finished up our time in Oakridge, with quite the adventure. We planned to do a ride called middle fork/moon pt. and though it would be a few miles of mellow single track following a river followed by a decent climb with a killer decent, 2 or 3 hours tops. We had been told this was a straight forward ride at the shop and decided not to get a map (the only ones they had were huge and were on plain paper). The locale visitor’s map also showed it as a strait forward fire road climb with no branch offs, so off we went… We happened to meet up two fellow Canadians who I will accredit for saving our ride! Lesley and Penny were also doing the ride for the first time, but they had a map! On a side note they got there map of Oakridge in Bend, made of regular plastic and size… take note Oakridge, take note. Anyway we had a great ride with them, and even with the map got lost a few time on the 9 MILE climb, not what we were expecting, 2 to 3 hours of climbing later we were at the top. We all rejoiced, and headed for the downhill, which as we expected was killer. Thanks again to Lesley and Penny who are ripper riders and were kind enough to offer to guide us around Squamish and Pemberton when we make our way up north.
It was then onto Bend, we had a great ride today. Crazy fast, buttery smooth single track, but the dust was killing us. Some crazy dust tan lines were had. Then it was off lake, which happens to be a block from main st. (this town is very cool) , we planned on swimming but put our leaky air mattresses to use and floated around with the locales for a while. Tubing seems to be a big past time around here, there was a shuttle bus doing laps of the lake.
Tomorrow is our last ride around Bend. Then we are supposed to be heading to Washington, but the name Hood River keeps popping up around here so we may have to check that out as well… And some pictures to prove that we have been riding in Oregon.
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