PA and BVT

Heading to Cresent Lake

I had a couple of busy weekends with some minor adventures thrown in, but I’m always more eager to blog when I have good pictures to back the text up. This has not been the case recently as I have not been taking many pictures during my outings due to limited camera access and general laziness.

Yes this was shot out of a moving car

Two weekends ago, Kerrie and I and the GU crew headed up to Port Angeles, WA for our buddie’s bachelor/bachelorette party. His family has a house on Lake Sutherland so we spent the weekend playing beach volleyball, tubing, and drinking beer. I had illusions of doing some big runs in Olympic National Park, but low elevation snow levels, a closed TH access road and general exhaustion from the constant heat and activity, left me with only 1 run. I wanted to do a loop on the Elwah River but the access road had been taken out by a landslide (or so we were told by the park ranger). I also wanted to do a loop to Lake Angeles, but the snow level was still too low and finally, I wanted to do a loop up and aroung Mt. Muller, but I was too tired and lazy. In the end, the boys and I did an 8 mile OAB on the Spruce Railroad Trail along Cresent Lake. We all felt pretty crappy the whole time, which lead to the laziness the following day. Overall, it was a great trip, good to see the Moran’s, Haguewoods and A Langfield. I’ll see them all again in two weeks for the actual wedding.

This past Friday, Kelly Cumiskey, and I headed to Banks, OR after work and did a 45 mile road bike OAB on the Banks-to-Vernonia State Trail. The trail was very similar to the Centennial Trail in Spokane, WA, which we used to ride quite a bit when we were at school. I gotta say that I love the idea of rail-to-trails that seems to be spreading across the pacific northwest. The ability to stay off the road, but still have great pavement, along with exploring new areas that gets you off the beat pack is a great idea. Another important point to note is that this ride signified a return to equilibrium for me as I have now ridden my bike father than I’ve run. My goal is to sign up for a century sometime in the fall so that I can knock that off my life list and feel justified in believe that I could ever run 100 miles (which is also in the plans for the distant future).

That’s all I got for now. I hope to plan something bigger for this weekend, but we’ll see.

UNT

Bryan

The Elwah River Trail I didnt get to do

The Lake Angeles/Heather Peak Trail that I also didnt get to do.