Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Oregon Mountain Biking

Here is some bike camera video from Nick and I mountain biking around Oregon 7/6-7/11/09. I just have bike video of basically the Upper McKenzie River portion of trip right now - Windows Movie Maker is having issues. More to come though.

UPDATE! - 2nd video below (on the left) is now the Newberry Calderra Rim Loop. I didn't compress it, so a little smoother. :)

UPDATE #2 - 3rd video below (on the right) is Umpqua River Trail portion of trip - including infamous Dread and Terror. It's also uncompressed video and a little smoother and longer.

What a fantastic trip! We had two days on McKenzie River Trail - camping at River Bridge campground one night. 1 day riding Newberry Calderra Rim loop outside Bend, with two nights staying in DT Bend with friends. 3 days/ 3 nights riding the Umpqua River Trail, camping at the Eagle Rock Campground. Umpqua Trail riding including do the infamous Dread and Terror Segment, and riding the Applewood Segment that was a major forest fire back in 2002. Actually the biggest thing to Dread about Dread and Terror are the mosquitoes. That does keep you moving though.

I had one good endo the first day doing the upper half of McKenzie River Trail, right on some nice sharp lava rock. Just a nice souvenir for the trip. I was a little more careful for a while after that. :P

We had about 150miles total riding, maybe a third of that was road riding to and from single track trail. I would have sweet Garmin GEarth maps of bike routes, but Garmin started turning itself off all the time when I hit any bump. Maybe time for Garmin upgrade.... :)

Z

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