Riding through the forests we pass many a warning Bear…and suddenly my phone starts blowing up with emergency alerts…
Bob Speed Monkey surveys the impending gloom as the world gets darker and darker. Headlights go on at 3pm in the afternoon and we ride for 2 hours through Jack O Lantern light…until the smoke cuts abruptly at the river crossing into Portland. Looking back you would never guess the strange upside-down world that this now meager seeming cloud holds.
Upon later research we discover that had we kept to our original plan to camp at Breitenbush Hot Springs we would have been caught right in the middle of the Lionshead and Beachie Creek Fires and been swiftly evacuated. According to their website posts all staff and visitors made it out safely!!
