Author Archives: Mike Evans

54 miles (87 km) – Total so far: 3,759 miles (6,050 km) We were up before dawn to race against the heat. The race started with the sun coming up over the horizon and the three of us shooting out of Baker City. We’ve left the arid Hells Canyon behind as we continue to ascendContinue reading “Day 69: Train!: Baker City, OR to Austin Junction, OR”

My destination for the day was Baker City. The ride itself was the kind to just get done. Lots of steep hills, temperatures over 100 degrees for the fifth day in a row and a hairdryer headwind would have made today tough in the best of circumstances. Circumstances, as it turns out, were anything butContinue reading “Day 67: Hot Headwind Hills and Harleys”

Oregon Day 66-Halfway, OR Day67-Baker City, OR Day 69-Austin Junction, OR Day 70- Dayville, OR Day 71-Ochoco Lake, OR Day 72- Sisters, OR Day 73- Eugene, OR Day 74-Swisshome, OR Day 75-Pacific Ocean, Earth Day 66:Final state: Cambridge, ID to Halfway, OR 57 miles (92 km) – Total so far: 3,651 miles (5,876 km) TheContinue reading “Day 66:Final state: Cambridge, ID to Halfway, OR”

51 miles (82 km) – Total so far: 3,594 miles (5,784 km) I had been fearing another scorcher of a day today, so I set my alarm early ready to jump on the bike and race against the noonday sun. Contrary to forecast, a gloomy overcast drizzle hung over us as we pedaled up andContinue reading “Day 65: Experimental Eating: New Meadows, ID to Cambridge, ID”

Part 1 105 degrees. I wouldn’t have believed it if you had told me. Not heat index… three different thermometers: two at 104 and one at 105. Crazy melting hot weather. We got out of the farmyard early as the town of White Bird has little to recommend staying. In fact, it has much toContinue reading “Day 64: Dangerously Hot: White Bird, ID to New Meadows, ID”

44 miles (71 km) – Total so far: 3,483 miles (5,605 km) Part 1 The mounting heat is becoming enough of a challenge that I’m continuing yesterday’s split ride again today. I plan on riding 40ish miles each morning and then another 20 in the early evening each day as I pass through the highContinue reading “Day 63: Cheating the heat: Kooskia, ID to White Bird, ID”

86 miles (138 km) – Total so far: 3,439 miles (5,535 km) America, I have important news for you. Idaho has been holding out on us. Potatoes. That’s what you think when I say Idaho. But this state isn’t about sodding tubers. No, my fellow citizens, Idaho has cornered the market on pure natural beauty.Continue reading “Day 62: Beautiful: Clearwater National Forest, ID to Kooskia, ID”

Idaho Day 61- Clearwater NF, ID Day 62- Kooskia, ID Day 63-White Bird, ID Day 64-New Meadows, ID Day 65-Cambridge, ID Day 61: Ascending in the footsteps of Lewis & Clark.: Missoula, MT to Clearwater National Forest, ID 60 miles (97 km) – Total so far: 3,353 miles (5,396 km) Just outside the busy slotContinue reading “Day 61: Ascending in the footsteps of Lewis & Clark: Missoula, MT to Clearwater National Forest, ID”

Last night’s dinner was curtailed by an impending storm that never broke. The wind dashed the tent about noisily, and the dinnertime sprinkles never materialized to anything more. As dawn broke the shifty wind had made up its mind, and that mind said tailwind. Paul, Terry and I broke camp at 5:30 to shoot intoContinue reading “Day 59: Zeroing in on the ACA: Hamilton, MT to Missoula, MT”

74 miles (119 km) – Total so far: 3,238 miles (5,211 km) The sober beginning of our trip today was a visit to Big Hole Battlefield. The battlefield is a memorial to the forced migration of several tribes to the Nez Perce reservation. Five tribes banded together to escape the US Army and push onContinue reading “Day 58: Young goats.: Wisdom, MT to Hamilton, MT”