The year 2016 was a great time to be outside: extreme sport start-ups let Bendites bungee off a bridge or dive into the sky; rare wolves and foxes made brief cameos in the wild; Bachelor debuted a new ski lift; even Pokémon Go helped out, if only fleetingly. To help you start planning your outdoor […]
Freedom Ride
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Give Me Freedom, Or Give Me Bikes!
Annual freedom ride’s growth present challenges
Ryan James was working at the Starbucks downtown when he saw his first Freedom Ride. “Leading up to the event, there was a lot of buzz,” he said. “I remember during the morning, we had a line out the door, and then we were completely dead for two hours during the Freedom Ride.” James and […]
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Letters 7/14-7/21
LIGHTS OUT, SAVE BIRDS Every spring and fall an extraordinary migration passes through our city, mostly unseen. Millions of birds fly overhead navigating, with great precision, using the starlight, landmarks, and the earth’s magnetic field. Many are songbirds such as warblers, thrushes, tanangers, and sparrows. Their journey is long and hard, but they continue on, […]
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Letters 7/7-7/14
IN REPLY TO “IN HOT WATER” (7/8) Hummm… The [Deschutes River Alliance] in their own analysis in various documents (and as Greg McMillan has said in various forums) has confirmed what [Portland General Electric] and [Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s] analysis has shown: by the time the water makes it’s way down the river […]
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PICK: Bikes!
friday 4 Bikes! TWO-WHEEL EVENTS—Despite the contentious reputation of the annual drink-and-roll Freedom Ride there’s not too many activities more American and freeing than riding your bike. We encourage it on Friday, weather it’s with the thousands of two-wheel aficionados on the downtown ride or in either of the two Anti-Freedom Ride rides organized for longer […]