Bike Tripin'

Well, as promised the future held a bike trip. It wasn't quite what I expected (distance wise), but nonetheless it was awesome. I went with eight friends of mine, who I worked with over the summer. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my camera, therefor all the pictures I will post are from Chris Mathews camera.

Despite the fact that we didn't end up biking all that much we still found plenty of things to do.



First we climbed to the top of this old railroad bridge. It was about 70 feet in the air. Although we briefly contemplated jumping off, we decided that was a bad life choice. Here, Matt 'Scar' Megard and Jeff 'Starship' Dickman, walk along a catwalk.



Here again you can see how tall this structure was. Additionally, at the top of this ladder there was a yellow jackets nest. Brett 'Wulf' Meggard and Hannah 'Trex' Joseph ascend the ladder.



Once we finally reached Harrison we decided to hit up the waterfront. There just so happened to be a pylon with a ladder. So, I decided to jump off.

We ended up staying at a place called Bell Bay. It's a great campsite and the caretakers are amazing. After we arrived in Harrison we had to bike another five or so miles to the campsite. These last miles proved to be the hardest due to a very steep and windy hill.

But it was worth it. Overall it was a great trip. Here is a map of the route that we took.

The future (is a bike trip)

Well hey, first blog in a while. I've been working all summer at a summer camp called Camp Reed (click here). It's a YMCA camp and is an awesome place... but the internet connection is limited and I've been fairly busy... so between the two no blogs.

Anyways as you can see I'm changing the focus of the blog a bit. Basically it has no specific focus, however, common themes will no doubt be journalism, biking and traveling. So keep and eye out for those. Today the NIC Sentinel started (click here). It's a student run newspaper and I'm the managing editor for the year. It's a big job, but I'm excited. So, I'm sure that will be something I will blog about on occasion.

But, for my first substantial blog in a while I'm choosing to write about something near and dear to my heart: biking. Me and some friends from camp are going to bike from Plummer, Idaho to Harrison, Idaho. I'm not quite sure about the route we are going to take, however, I'm sure that it is going to be a great time.

We will camp out near Harrison and then bike back in the morning (I have a noon class I have to be at... hmm). Anyways, I'm really excited for the trip. We leave tomorrow morning at 10 am. So, I should be in bed, but instead I'm blogging about how excited I am. Smart.

So, I will take pictures and throw them onto the blogosphere as soon as possible. I will also show you the route that we end up taking using MapMyRide, a very, very cool website (click here).

So, that is all. I will start to blog more consistently once again.