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While three Oregon MTB XC races have been held around the state this spring, on Saturday, the Chainbreaker XC MTB Race is set to unofficially usher in the beginning of the Central Oregon mountain biking season. Now in its 17th year, the fun-spirited and challenging race has accumulated enough cache in the mountain biking community […]
A month ago, Turkey Vultures, AKA buzzards or TVs, began winging their way north from their long (and very wise) winter stay in the southern climes, like the Sacramento Valley. If you want to shorten Turkey Vulture, (Cathartes aura), the official birding world acronym is, TUVU (not to be confused with TOFU, a paste that’s […]
The perfect day for Meredith Gentry is heading out to the North Fork Trail on Bend’s westside with her mountain bike, shooting past Tumalo Falls and rocketing back down the Farewell Trail. Gentry said it’s a challenging ride, but the scenery is more than worth it. Four years ago, the Austin transplant started Grit Clinics […]
“We were in Colorado at a Yoga Journal conference in the mountains in 2005,” Jason Magness said about founding YogaSlackers with his friend Sam Salwei. At the time, the two were teaching yoga and slacklining—the tricky sport of walking and balancing on a bouncy rope. He continued, “People started to ask about the whole package […]
Peter Bowers is the high-energy and disarmingly friendly owner of The Patient Angler, a popular fly fishing shop along Bend’s Third St. The store is tidy and small, barely the length of a standard river fishing boat. But within the small space is both a wealth of knowledge and enough fishing flies to reel in […]
It was way back in the ’60s, while I was working for the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry as the staff naturalist that I had the opportunity to see—up-close-and in-my-hand—a real honest-to-goodness living, two-headed animal; that NW Garter snake pictured above. It is not Photoshopped! I cannot recall the young man’s name who brought […]
In the ’70s, riding dirt bikes was an informal sport, jumping Huffy bikes off mounds in backyards and tearing Schwinn Sting-Rays through hiking paths (certainly a precursor to mountain biking for thousands of kids). But even though the sport had formally arrived in America in 1969, when a group of teenagers in West LA started […]
Two years ago, Sheri Fayal, a transplant from San Diego to Bend, began mountain biking with her husband. Although she struggled on much of the terrain, her passion for the sport gradually began to take hold. Moreover, as much as she enjoyed riding with her husband, she longed to find a group to share her […]
My grandfather routinely told me that there are doers, and there are talkers. But sometimes there is that rare person who is both. Although this week, it doesn’t seem so rare, as a handful of events are bringing some of the world’s most exciting adventures indoors and onto the stage from the people who lived […]
This epistle is the result of friends’ and my personal experiences with observing—often helplessly—domestic and feral cats killing wildlife, sometimes for food, but more often because they are programmed to do so. A genetic study in 2007 concluded that domestic cats are descended from African wildcats, Felix silvestris lybica, which hunted small birds, mammals, reptiles, […]
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