Comments on: A week in Mazama

By: Don Mackie

Don Mackie — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:17:29 +0000

Love the photos. The Goat Peak ones reminded me of one of Ed Abbey’’s books, about a firewatcher – can”t remember the title but will go and see if I can find it now. Thanks for the blog.

By: Jimmy Livengood

Jimmy Livengood — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:57:19 +0000

FYI -Panaracer makes a Fire Cross 700×45 (like the fire xc 26″) that would be my choice -I”ve got a set of 29×2.1 Fire XCs on my hardtail right now -love ”em. My Novara randonee frame baarley fits Bontrager Jones XC dry 29×1.75″, which are also labeled as 700×42.

There’’s a thread on the 29er forum of MTBR about “monster cross” tires which has a bunch of options for 38-50mm knobbies.

By: AlexWetmore

AlexWetmore — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:14:58 +0000

Blue Lake was cold!

The tires are Panaracer Smoke 700×45. Bianchi made some 700C hybrid/mountain bikes in the early 90s, and these were the tires made for those bikes. Sadly my ones are on their last legs, and I haven”t found many similarily sized knobby 700C tires. The Ivy works nicely on trails with the extra traction (although if I were building it as a full time trail bike I”d use a shorter stem then how I have it setup for the road).

By: Jimmy Livengood

Jimmy Livengood — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:34:57 +0000

Beautiful! Looks like Blue Lake would”ve been a very refreshing swim(snow on the far bank). What tires are on the Ivy in the last photo (700c?)

By: Apertome

Apertome — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:01:43 +0000

Looks like a great vacation, with incredible photos. It’’s too bad so many photos were lost!

By: Steven Shand

Steven Shand — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:58:54 +0000

Hi Alex,

Is there any chance you could forward me the details of the rental house you used for this vacation? We”re thinking about heading over to this area from Scotland and this looks ideal. Cheers

steven[at]shandcycles.com