I just got back from doing a bit of night riding over at Mount Hood Meadows. Apparently this weekend they’re having a throw-down called Jamaican Days, which means they pipe reggae music through their outside speakers, host a bonfire out on the snow, and cook something at the chalet that smells vaguely Jamaican. [...]
Category Archives: Hood River
Hired Goon
February 4, 2007
Phew.
I guess there’s been some changes ’round these parts over the last couple weeks. I’ve been busy with those so I’ve kinda been neglecting some things, small things like this blog and personal hygiene and common decency.
When I got back from Walla Walla last Sunday someone had been kind enough to leave me a [...]
I Heart Sprint
January 18, 2007
Last week my cell phone suddenly lost most of its ability to make and receive calls. The nature of the glitch suggested that it was a problem with Sprint’s all-digital wireless network built from the ground up. My phone kept getting booted off Sprint’s network and into roaming land, so my initial concerns [...]
Laundromatic
December 5, 2006
I have discovered an axiom of Hood River laundromats, in that at any point in time at least one quarter of all washers and dryers must be out of order. At first I thought this only applied to the laundromat in the Heights, which besides its defunct collection of machines isn’t all that bad [...]
Moisture is the Essence of Wetness
November 8, 2006
UPDATE: We’ve got pictures of the carnage!
It has been raining here for the last two weeks straight. In case you haven’t heard, Oregon is pretty much fucked.
The Hood River was a raging muddy torrent when I went down to check it out yesterday. The river was running so high and so fast that [...]
Wahtum
October 30, 2006
On Saturday night our endless summer came to a screeching halt, and I happened to be outside to witness the transformation. I’ve been feeling slow and lethargic lately, and needed some change in routine to shake out of my rut, so I decided I’d load up the trusty ol’ backpack and hit the trail [...]
Booty
October 22, 2006
Scotch on the rocks. We’ll see how long I can remain coherent.
A couple nights ago some friends and I dressed up as pirates and ran around downtown Hood River for the entire evening. Rather than simply doing this at random (which would be kind of fun, come to think of it) we were [...]
Ullr
October 15, 2006
Last night we ran up into the foothills of Mount Hood and, in an effort to appease the winter gods, burned piles of skis at our Pray for Snow party.
It’s amazing how much of the stuff that goes into making a ski, how much of that toxic garbage just burns like hell when you lay [...]
Delivered
October 8, 2006
Ahoy.
I have safely arrived in Oregon, the state whose motto is Alis volat propriis, which means “She flies with her own wings, but only only after she has compiled a report regarding the environmental and economic impact of her flight, and only while using wings deemed safe by the state regulatory process.”
Yup, I’m in Hood [...]
Vibes
September 24, 2006
The application on my new place in Hood River went through, so I am now the proud lease-holder of… well… a lease. I’m moving into the upstairs unit of a duplex that in the last two years was completely remodeled with new applicances, new carpet, picture windows, a deck, and a killer view of [...]
