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Got a phone message late monday night, all I could hear was "Ape Canyon" "ride" and "shiggy gave me your number".
Called back and got ahold of Al and Colette, aka aosty and impy, heading up to Portland from Eugene and they wanted some info on riding Mt St Helens.
After a few minutes of talking, I noticed my vision was blurring and I just couldn't see "work" the next day. This is a recurring eye problem that I'll have to deal with all my life.
So...
met them tuesday morn in Woodland at thor's Berserker bike shop where we yipped and yapped and met their friends on motorcycles, Ryan and Amanda. Led them all up to Ape Canyon Trail # 234 where we got ready and the 3 of us bikers (Al on his Dean 29er SS, Colette on her RacerX gearie, and me on the reBrew) headed up the trail to a beautiful, and HOT climb to the Plains of Abraham. Trail conditions were excellent as we had just had rain last weekend and the trail showed few signs of travel since then. We basically had the trail to ourselves.
Below are some pics of our day. It is difficult to take a bad picture on Ape Canyon trail...so my apologies.
https://red-haze.com/tr234/CanyonPano01.JPG
https://red-haze.com/tr234/ApeCanyonXpano01.JPG
that was great fun, just what I needed!
Called back and got ahold of Al and Colette, aka aosty and impy, heading up to Portland from Eugene and they wanted some info on riding Mt St Helens.
After a few minutes of talking, I noticed my vision was blurring and I just couldn't see "work" the next day. This is a recurring eye problem that I'll have to deal with all my life.
So...
met them tuesday morn in Woodland at thor's Berserker bike shop where we yipped and yapped and met their friends on motorcycles, Ryan and Amanda. Led them all up to Ape Canyon Trail # 234 where we got ready and the 3 of us bikers (Al on his Dean 29er SS, Colette on her RacerX gearie, and me on the reBrew) headed up the trail to a beautiful, and HOT climb to the Plains of Abraham. Trail conditions were excellent as we had just had rain last weekend and the trail showed few signs of travel since then. We basically had the trail to ourselves.
Below are some pics of our day. It is difficult to take a bad picture on Ape Canyon trail...so my apologies.










https://red-haze.com/tr234/CanyonPano01.JPG
https://red-haze.com/tr234/ApeCanyonXpano01.JPG
that was great fun, just what I needed!