Summer’s over right? Around this time of year, people start getting ready for the many months of rain by bitching about the impending weather. Is that any way to spend your time people? I choose to not complain about things beyond my control, and instead go mountain biking. The last weekend of September in Oakridge featured high 70′s to mid 80′s with nothing but blue skies and the occasional contrail. Sitting between 1,000 and 4,000 feet we rode three days of fast, technical, and then fast technical trails while the sun was still shining.

Campfires, tall tales that go nowhere, yellowjacket stings, and of course bad gas.

Here we go with the photo dump. Why so many photos? Because they say it so much better than I can.

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Everyone pays a bit

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Quite possibly one of the better views from Alpine.

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Inside the Office Covered Bridge

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Gravel. yesssss.

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Spencer "No one can touch me on the downhill" Calahan

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At this point we knew we had taken a wrong turn

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High Life. Steelers. Middle Fork Willamette River

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Why? Why do we continue with this?

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Cthulhu keeps good friends

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At the top of Larrison Rock

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Descending from the top of Larrison Rock - R Kelley

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Descending from the top of Larrison Rock - Brandon Lockwood

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Descending from the top of Larrison Rock - Spencer "No one can touch me on the downhill" Calahan

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Descending from the top of Larrison Rock - Jeffrey Boston

Nothing like two nights of camping, three days of riding, and good times to cap the summer off. And wouldn’t you know it, it’s still hot and sunny this week. I’m getting a sinking feeling that Alpenrose is going to be dry this year. Maybe we can get some garden hoses to muddy the place up.