A beautiful orange butterfly on someone's leg. It has black and white spots on its wings.
Two orange butterflies with black and white spots on the same persons other leg.
Got trapped by some butterflies on the ride today. 🥰🦋
Pretty sure these are California Tortisshells but sound off if you have correction
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Mixed clouds and blue sky above a forested volcanic plateau. There are blooming manzanita bushes in the foreground, and in the distance is a stripe of sunlight.
Let your spirit soar.
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Two tall pines, their needles coated by frost, stand tall against a blue sky. The sun is caught between their branches.
This is a neutral post, stay as long as you like.
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Photo showing a snowy field with backlit pine trees on the horizon and the winder sun shining down over them.
What counts is the courage to continue.
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Photo of a trail leading up through a snowy valley. There are ponderosa pines everywhere and a ceanothus intruding on the right.
And to all a good night!
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A single mature ponderosa stands tall overlooking a cluster of smaller trees. Behind it the lands falls away with distant blue-green forested mountains and a snow covered volcano. The sky is winter blue with fluffy white clouds. Looking NE from Shooting Star Shelter toward Broken Top, Deschutes Natnl Forest, OR.
This is a neutral post.
Stay as long as you like.
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A rainbow arches through a blue and cloudy sky over an expanse of green pine trees.
What matters is the courage to continue.
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Sparse pine forest backlit by a winter sun. There is a mountain bike in the lower right corner.
I have more things to be grateful for than can fit in or are appropriate for a skeet. So let's just stick with the basics: trees and bikes.
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Also modern plumbing (not pictured).
A wide and lazy turquoise river meanders between tall ponderosa pines. The sun is shining the sky is blue and there are creamy white clouds down by the horizon. A sunny manzanita bush sits in the foreground.
This is a real place. Keep that in your mind.
Elko Point, Sunriver OR
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A breathtaking vista of pine forest and distant volcanos, covered in snow and clouds. A snow-covered trail leads away into the distance.
View of a snow-covered trail running down a ridge, flanked by green shrubby manzanitas and overshadowed by sun-soaked pine trees. The sky beyond it cloudy with a patch of blue.
Looking up to the ridge and three mature ponderosa pine tree trunks. Behind the middle one is a nimble little mountain bike.
POV: you rode the wrong bike on what turned out to be a snow ride but you still had a good time
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Deschutes Natnl Forest, Tumalo Ridge trail
A trail through a fall wood, mostly covered in snow
Snow covered ground with a single indomitable tire track down the covered trail
Beautiful fall light slanting through thin pine trees and a shallow alpine creek. There are patches of snow in the shade.
Beautiful fall riding
Central Oregon style!
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Thunderhead clouds gathering in a blue sky beyond a green mountain.
Beyond a sparse forest of thin conifers, the sky is heavy with thunderhead clouds lit pink in the distance.
Thunderhead clouds rolling over the sky above a marshy lake surrounded by conifer trees.
The sun shines brightly, illuminating the stacked thunderhead clouds on the horizon.
Momentous clouds on the ride today.
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Deschutes National Forest, OR
A woman on a mountain bike rides away up a steep hillside trail flanked by pine trees. In the distance a high green hill looms, backdropped by smoky white-and-blue sky.
Keep climbing folks.
I'll see you up there.
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A serene forest and shrub hillscape with a cloudy blue sky. Two tiny humans ride mountain bikes through it on a narrow trail.
It's all about the beauty and the bikes that take you there.
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Wet conifer forest with misty volcanoes behind.
High conifer forest with an extinct volcano crater, cloaked in clouds, beyond.
A wet trail leading down a ridge covered in bright green bushes. The clouds are purple and the trees are dark and happy.
A trail through the conifer woods, viewed from the shoulder of a bicycle's left fork stantion.
Oh sweet summer rain, fall gently upon my trails and relentlessly upon the fires.
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Ten seconds of healing water noises, courtesy of North Fork Tumalo Creek.
Deschutes Nat'l Forest, OR.
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Gentle wind and bird noises to bless your TL this and every evening.
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Deschutes Nat'l Forest, Oregon
Vista of high ponderosa forest stretching away to volcanic buttes, blue on the horizon. In the foreground is manzanita and snow bush scrub, and the top half of the image is all sky with soaring clouds.
Timeline cleanse!
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A double track with shrubs of little lupins blooming to the side.
A singletrack with a purple lupin beside it.
High desert/subalpine landscape covered in lupins
Looking up a sweeping trail flanked with lupins and more lupins stretching away into the distance.
This is a lupin appreciation post. 🪻
Wanoga area, Deschutes National Forest.
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Sometimes the road ahead doesn't look the way you'd expect, but it still leads to beauty.
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Deschutes Nat'nl Forest, OR
Please enjoy 30 seconds of birdsong on a warm, sunny mountainside. Courtesy of
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Just a peaceful trail with some butterflies and birdsong to bless your TL
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Photo of a hillside of ponderosa pine trees, with green ridge in the distance and a blue one behind that. The sky is covered in clouds but there is a patch of sunlight on a distant hill.
Breath deep. Seek peace.
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A green mountain ridge with a bluer one behind it. On top of the highest point is a square, box-like castle shape (actually a decommissioned radio tower). It is a clear, sunny day though some light clouds are casting shade on the box (Mt Umunhum). In the foreground is lush greenery with bright yellow flowers that smell like watermelons.
My Umunhum as viewed from Mt Elsombroso, May 26 2025
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A trail through an airy pine forest with a blooming manzanita in front
A trail leading through blooming bushes of manzanitas
Close up of a manzanita laden with fat pink flowers.
An old stump decorated with pinecones in varying stages of disassembly.
This ride sponsored by manzanitas and pinecones
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A sunny pine forest with a manzanita bush in the foreground. If you squint you'll just see all its adorable pink blossoms.
Close up of a blooming manzanita branch, laden with pink blossoms.
View of a pine forest in the background with the foreground dominated by blooming manzanitas.
A dirt trail leading away through some rocks. It is lined with blooming manzanitas and there are ponderosa pines in the background.
Manzanita appreciation post.
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A trail is flooded and also covered by snow
The trail is completely buried in old snow
The trail is marked only by the top of a trail post, sunk to its neck in snow
Melting snow has formed a creek running down the road, melting a tunnel of snow. There is a bike viewed from the POV of the rider about to bust through.
Today's ride was: Searching for Trails in All The Wrong (right?) Places
In local news: Larsens still needs to melt a bit more.
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