Old Growth Trail in the McDonald-Dunn Forest

Samantha and I went for a short hike on the Old Growth Trail in the McDonald-Dunn Forest the other day. An okay map of the forest is available from the College of Forestry website.

The trees are quite beautiful although the grove is rather small in comparison with others I’ve visited. We found a beer bottle quite a distance off the trail which we picked up and disposed of in a recycling bin back in Corvallis.

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I should also note that this is the first time that I am using Gallery2 in a post that is being crossposted to Livejournal. If for some reason, the thumbnails don’t come across correctly, please view the original post at my website for the photos.

Exercising gears after the freeze

Buzzed around the football parking lot exercising my newly freed gears until it would shift smoothly. Then took it out on the road up on highway 20 to 53rd and then over to Harrison and back around on 11th to Samantha’s house.

7 miles in the parking lot, 5 miles on the road Rode alone.