friday 29 Devinci Bike Demo Day Crow’s Feet Commons presents an all-day shred session. Bring a helmet, your pedals, and your passion for railing turns, going fast, and hitting jumps. Free shuttle from Cog Wild. 9 am-4 pm. Wanoga Sno Park, Cascade Lakes Highway. Free. saturday 30 Ride for Two Rivers This benefit ride for the […]
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Reinventing The Bicycle Wheel
Knight Composites combines enthusiasm and technology for a new wheel design
“We’re in this because we love cycling, because we have faith in the people we work with and a passion for innovation,” responds Bend resident Beverly Lucas when asked why she wanted to start Knight Composites, a world-class cycle wheel company in an industry already saturated with cycling companies producing products and components. That enthusiasm […]
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Tis The Season
SUP paradise
Last year Outside Magazine announced to the world that Bend, Oregon is, in fact, the best place on the planet to stand up paddle board. Thanks, guys. With our cover blown, it’s not surprising that paddling the stretch of river between Riverbend and Drake parks has become an activity not unlike Tinder meets bumper boats […]
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Top Gear
Cog Wild gears up for mountain biking season
Warm air, infrequent rain, and wispy yellow clouds of Juniper pollen have officially ushered in a new spring and soon-to-be summer season. Long gone are the days of waiting for and ultimately never getting snow, and welcome are the dusty and sun-stroked mornings, noon and nights of another trail-shredding, berm-busting mountain biking season. Over the […]
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Go Here 5/20-5/27
High Desert hikes with local brewers
Because this is Bend, there is an actual organization dedicated to the your-peanut butter-fell-in-my-chocolate style serendipity that blends place-based education and craft beer. Behold: Beers Made By Walking, and you can be a part of it. BMBW has teamed up with the good folks at Oregon Natural Desert Association to organize a series of free […]
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Pity the Poor Sage-Grouse
Public lands for all animals
For the last four years, my wife Sue and I have been bouncing all over parts of Deschutes, Lake, and Harney Counties searching for golden eagle nesting territories. Among the sites we’ve found throughout the Great Sandy Desert are hundreds of square miles of land cleared of sagebrush where cows are chomping their way through […]
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Go Here 5/14-5/21
Old School Networking
Back in 1972, long before the advent of Meetup, a group of Madras-based outdoor enthusiasts got together and formed the Desert Trail Association to promote recreational exploration of arid Oregon landscapes. The group petered out in the 2000s but re-launched this year and is sponsoring a full series of hikes including a couple this week. […]
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By The Horns
Seventy-five years young
The back room of the clubhouse at the Sisters Rodeo grounds is filled with about a dozen men and women, all wearing blue jeans and work boots; volunteers who run the Sisters Rodeo. They are debating whether there is more drinking at the annual Sisters Quilt Festival or the Sisters Rodeo. “Definitely the quilt,” announces […]
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Not to Be Broken
In spite of losing its course to fire, Chainbreaker rides again
Not long after last Memorial Day—and a month after the popular Chainbreaker Mountain Bike Race—the Two Bulls Fire swept across several thousand acres west of Bend, pushing as close as seven miles from the city’s edge. Over one weekend alone, some 250 residents living at the outskirts of town were evacuated from their homes. Ultimately, […]
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Go Here 5/6-5/13
Get Out of Your Cave!
The Oregon High Desert Grotto, Bend’s chapter of the National Speleogical Society, records 690 known caves in Deschutes County alone. Just when I’d been in enough of the caves close to Bend—with their entrances christened with beer bottles, spray paint, and cigarette butts—to think, “Meh, seen one, seen ’em all,” I learned of these three […]
