My first experience with a heart arrhythmia was as a young athlete. Pulling up to a belay after a hard rock-climbing pitch, my heart began to beat abnormally fast. I became slightly dizzy and felt shortness of breath – an awkward and frightening experience, especially as I was cliffside, perched hundreds of feet above the […]
David Sword
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Desert to Desert
A visit to Oregon’s largest playa, the Alvord Desert
If you are searching for a different Oregon experience, put on your adventure shoes, take a couple days off and drive toward the rising sun. Plunging eastward down from the 9,738-foot summit of the Steens Mountains sits a world unique to the typical Oregon landscape. Located in the southwest corner of the Beaver State and […]
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It’s time for a Summer Adventure!
Tips and Suggestions to Start Your Adventure
The warm weather is finally here, and I don’t know about you, but I have lakes, rivers, bikes, boats and maybe a few beers on the mind. If that’s your vibe, too, then this week’s issue might be of service. Inside this Summer Adventure issue, we share some outings for the intrepid local and newcomer […]
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On a Mission to Keep Bikes Out of Landfills
A Q & A with Kevin Risse of Redmond’s Risse Racing
Kevin Risse (Ri-see) is the owner of Redmond, Oregon’s Risse Racing, a bike component company and full-service bike shop. In honor of the Redmond issue, we chatted with Risse about bikes, bike parts, keeping bikes from becoming obsolete, the pandemic and more. Source Weekly: How did Risse Racing get started? Kevin Risse: I started the […]
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Of Wheels and Feathers
Fish/bike/packing on the Deschutes River, all in the same trip
“Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.” – Teddy Roosevelt The bicycle boom has filled the streets and trails with more riders than ever before. Bike shops and trailheads are bustling and busy, and as the Central Oregon community continues to grow, escaping the density by finding quieter and less […]
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It’s Time to Talk About E-Bikes
With the explosion in use of electric assist bicycles comes the need for more education about safety, usage and learning to coexist
Central Oregon loves bicycles. Bikes give people a sense of freedom and independence, and with the growing necessity of environment-friendly transportation, the popularity of bicycles and bike riding is booming. The benefits are numerous and include reduced air/noise pollution, savings on fuel costs and less congestion on roadways. And let’s not forget the positive physical […]
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It’s Time to Talk About E-Bikes
With the explosion in use of electric
assist bicycles comes the need for
more education about safety, usage
and learning to coexist
Central Oregon loves bicycles. Bikes give people a sense of freedom and independence, and with the growing necessity of environment-friendly transportation, the popularity of bicycles and bike riding is booming. The benefits are numerous and include reduced CO2 emissions and air/noise pollution, savings on fuel costs, less congestion on roadways and saving of construction and […]
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Roped Together
A true story of an epic father/son adventure
I started rock climbing in the early ’80s and took to it as passionately as skiing, the sport introduced to me by my parents, and the first endeavor in which I pursued as a profession. Climbing was still a fringe sport and climbing gyms hadn’t evolved yet. From bouldering anywhere I could find a rock, and […]
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Winter Cocktails to Combat the Cold
Out of the darkness comes the light
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” — Stanley Kubrick Winter. If you are anything like me, you have a love/hate relationship with the season. We love that it snows so we can ski but hate to shovel and drive in it. And it’s cold. With shortened days the darkness settles in […]
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New to the Backcountry? Embrace the Side-Country.
An easy intro for the backcountry curious, and a few places to check out in Central Oregon
Ripped right out of the pages of “Zoolander,” everybody is talking about the backcountry. “Skiing and snowboarding in the backcountry is so hot right now.” But what exactly does it mean to be in the “backcountry?” Central Oregon has miles and miles of terrain to explore during the winter by ski or snowboard, and although […]