Boston Jeff and Dave Canale announce a joint birthday party.

Boston asked me to post this. Knowing those two, it should be an epic.

Sunday November 28th, 2pm-? Check back for the address, Boston said he would email it.

B

Westside!

WestSide Invite 11! Er, I mean West Coast Unvitational 1! Whatever, any reason to go to Canada, and this time I'm bringing my own booze, it's crazy expensive up there!

Salem Alleycat!

NOISE Ride 2010

Noise Ride - Saturday, October 16th, 12 noon at the Fresh Pot on N. Mississippi.

I still don't know what NOISE stands for...National Onespeed Invitational Singlespeed Event?
I do know that it's always a fun day of riding and debauchery.

The Oakridge Shred

Elements of Team Wreck and Team Cthulhu journeyed to Oakridge last weekend. We rode Alpine, the lower 18 miles of the Middle Fork of the Willamette trail and Larrisson Rock.

Great trails and great times. Big ups to Beefa for the White River Chile Stew, Boston for the storytelling, Brandon for the shuttling, Spencer for the youthful enthusiasm,JBone for his magical bin and Milkshake for pulling it all together.

We had to climb over a landslide to get to the top of the Alpine Trail. It was worth it.

Milkshake and Spencer may look disaffected here but actually we all got along quite well.

The view from the top of Larrison Rock.

Boston catching some air.

We took a wrong turn and ran into this weird shrine way up a fire road.

Survey marker at the top of Larrison Rock.

For more and better photos check Milkshake's blog, Velograph.net

where he asks the question "What do vodka and four loko taste like together?"

Guest Post : Conspirasteve!

The Enemies List

Greetings and salutations to all dear readers of Dawhite's stellar yet underutilized blog spot. It has been more than a few months since I have bestowed the humble, yet exciting, mostly convoluted, trappings of the Conspirasteve inner sanctum of round table discussion forums upon Dawhite's staid yet brave readership. However, dear readers, after must discussion, ballyhoo and bravado from various members of said round table, I have declared ENOUGH! Yes of course names were named, fingers were pointed, drunkenness and fights ensued. However! We have come to the point of action! The here, the now, so on and so forth. While there was a multitude of venal and vicious villains which we could vilify on this list, it became apparent that this list would be a list of One. One you ask? With all the worthwhile vermin worthy of scorn? Indeed, dear readers of Dawhites esteemed blog, One.
While there were a multitude of villainous candidates deserving honorable mention, such as: Milkshake's mustache, Sean Hannity, rigid mountain bike forks, body surfing and Dabby , to name a few who had the dubious distinction of being discussed in our round table forum. Their's was but a veneer of viciousness on the Conspirasteve nation body politic. Never truly rising to the level of "Numero Uno" so to speak.

So without further ado:
1: This creature goes by many names, The Mt St Helens Gorilla, Devil Monkey, Skukum , Sasquatch, Big Foot, and my favorite OH-MAN.( no shit, that's actually a name).
Growing up in the Pacific N.W. I have heard plenty of tales surrounding this mythical monster over the years, mostly full of shit, but exciting all the same. My favorite coming from my Dad's one armed friend who purported to have lost his arm when he and his friends were attacked by a roving gang of Big Foots ( or would that be Big Feet?) but I digress....Ok where was I?.. oh yeah..in the Mt St Helens National Forest. He apparently escaped in the back of my Dad's pickup. Unfortunately for him one of the Sasquatches grabbed a hold of his arm while my Dad floored it and ripped his arm off...good times.

NO dear reader this story is a far cry from the reason OH-MAN is the king of all enemies..I know what you're asking yourself..."why why why" ?...The reason for the election of the Devil Monkey is placed squarely in hands of this blogs author, none other than Dawhite himself. I'll get to the point. I had the pleasure of camping with Dawhite and ten other virtuous souls on a Death March at the American Ridge Lodge on or around January of 2008. From the cabin we had a view of an ancient ski slope roughly 1/4 mile long, 100 feet wide at which seem to be of a 45 degree angle. A good portion of the group were casing the slope to decide at which angle we should try to commit suicide that night by whisky and sled. When a bi-pedal humanoid creature roughly 9 feet tall crossed the top of the slope.. Of course this being a Death March I quickly numbed my fear by doing shots and making fun of Rev Phil. All was well until Dawhite recounted the story to me this past weekend by campfire mere moments before I retired for the evening.
From that moment on, until the daybreak, every whistling of the leaves or steps of a small forest creature sent Conspirasteve Nation straight to defcon 5! It was just a matter of moments before the Devil Monkey would be pulling my spine out and using it as a tooth pick. And for disturbing my slumber, YOU Sasquatch have the dubious distinction of being #1 on Conpirasteve nations Enemies List. Congrats.

RETURN OF THE GUEST POST

RETURN OF THE GUEST POST, as written by reverend phil

The road is a pretty interesting place. It's where messages are delivered in person, where the action is, where danger lurks round the corner. When that danger comes a knocking you might be lucky enough to come away unharmed, and if you are even more lucky others will not be harmed by you.

I take this as a sign that humanity is still holding on. That people can be marginally responsible for their actions and carry on their days. Even though we might not be able to forget the crazy person in the elevator that was having a conniption fit, we should actually be thankful for the person with whom we had a poor interaction with and still managed to let bygones be bygones.




stolen with gratitude from zoobomb.net

Oakridge Shred

Milkshake has announced an end of the summer trip to Oakridge. Good call.

More info on the facebooks.

Boat Farm Blog

Blog spin off!

www.boatfarmers.com

News from Boat Farm

We harvested some lovely garlic. Just enough for personal use but we plan to expand next year.

Move this pile over there!

Look for our Chiogga and Bulls Blood beets at Wild Pear in Salem.

La Capitale is also featuring our wild cherries with their cheese plate.

We finally started phase 1A of Project Chicken Coop : fix the leaky roof.

AAhhh! Sunlight on the garlic and quiver!

We raised the sails on Grace O'Malley for the first time.

A good excuse to break out the stainless steel martini glasses.


Co-captains, steady at the helm.

Jaden flying the Teamwreck colors at 8th grade graduation.

Rickreall Open postponed.

Sorry to report that the Open has to be postponed. Our friend Glenna passed away on Friday and we will be traveling to Vancouver for the funeral. Sad news indeed, she was a special person and will be deeply missed by many.

Rickreall Open VII

July 16-18. It's coming up fast.

Events may include extreme bocce ball, ditchstyle, BB gun biathalon and a pump track time trial. And of course fire jumping, speed scrabble, tree climbing and a midnight mystery ride. Maybe we should bring back whiffle ball home run derby or White Trash Iron Chef?

You'll probably want a flashlight or headlamp, a towel, mosquito repellent and a bmx or mountain bike.

Boat Farm

Our first success! A handful of cloves from Garlicana turned into buckets full of beautiful Basque Red Garlic.

A big thanks to Sauvie Island Organics for all the drip tape.

Wildflowers on the pump bumps.

It's a start.

The eyes of a killer. A mole a day, that's all I ask.

The strawberries are thriving, they must have enjoyed the wet spring.

That merit badge I got for knot tying? If I knew where it was I would give it back. I pretty much faked it.
My experimental tomato trellis.

Boat Farm Nursery

Boat Farm Brewery!

My first batch of IPA is bubbling away happily. Many thanks to Claire of the So Pathetic Brewclub for the knowledge and help and to Milkshake for much of the equipment.

La Ocho

"Hello All
I'm working with Nadir on La Ocho and you can see some developments on the track geometry here: http://www.behance.net/Gallery/La-Ocho-CMWC-2010/514612"

Posted by Dieter Janssen to Team WRECK at 11:59 AM

The Human Powered Rollercoaster is reborn in wood and soon, dirt.

One step closer to an Ewok village.

Great build day despite the low turnout.

As many dogs as workers and they were no help at all.
Teamwork.









Big ups to Rickreall Bargain Center for the lumber, we'll be back.