I am not suggesting that us Wenders hate trees — most of us spend a lot of time in the outdoors — but the general population is certainly spending less and less time in their national forests. The US Forest Service reports that national forest visits are down by 13% from 2004 to 2007. And [...]
Today marks an historic milestone, as American Rivers announces that PacifiCorp has agreed to remove four dams on the Klamath River. After years of negotiating, this is part of a broader effort to restore the river and help revive the ailing salmon and steelhead runs. In turn, this will also help fishing, tribal and farming [...]
This weekend my plans to hike to the top of S**** mountain (near Mount St. Helens) while wearing a sasquatch costume were derailed after meeting the “owner” of the mountain: a toothless hard-rock miner with a bottle of Gold Rush wine and a bag full of gold. He was a veteran of the Viet Nam [...]
Fall is a bitter-sweet season for cyclists in Oregon. The air is cold on the nose but crisp in the lungs. Changing leaves illuminate back-country highways, creating dreamy opportunities for touring. But every orange or yellow leaf is a sign of the impending dreariness of the fog and rain of winter, which looms just [...]
Two weekends ago we headed down south to Golden, OR in order to shoot our holiday issue Survival Kit. A couple of Wenders, four models, a Trivial Pursuit board and a ghost town certainly make for a good time. Check out the slideshow below and you too will wish you could take part in special [...]
[Wend Magazine publisher Ian Marshall takes a shot at Rapha Racing. You might have to turn your computer sideways to watch this one.]
[Wend Magazine publisher Ian Marshall slaps the cow bell in defeat. His performance was better in the beer garden.]
It’s Monday, which means Portlanders are dragging themselves out of bed and back to work. [...]
Since it’s mid-October, it was decided that we needed to show off the fall colors that we have been enjoying here in Oregon. Taken last weekend at the Narrows Wayside in Douglas County during our photo shoot for the Holiday issue Survival Kit, this shot by Anna Brones shows just why we love Oregon autumn: [...]
On the way back from shooting our holiday issue Survival Kit we stopped off at the Canyonville Cyber Cafe in Canyonville, OR — trust me, with the big screen tv and Sunday meatloaf special it didn’t really look or feel like a cyber cafe — where we came across the most politically incorrect of gag [...]
In September 1942, just nine months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a submarine which had sailed all the way from Japan with a small float plane disassembled inside arrived undetected off the coast of southern Oregon. The plane was assembled and flown toward the coastal town of Brookings, Ore. with the intention of starting [...]
After a weekend in the Bay Area, I spent Monday driving up Hwy 101 through the Redwoods.
Of course, in the road trip spirit, I really wanted to take full advantage of all the tourist traps along the way — who knew there were so many drive-thru trees?? — most of them were closed for the [...]
