Bend Oregon
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I am thinking about moving out to Bend in the fall, and I am going to make a trip out there to climb and check out the area in a week. Anyone have any advice on what to check out around the city while I'm there? |
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Try lining up a job before moving there, the unemployment was sky-high when I lived in Portland. |
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beers. drink all of them. |
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Yeah I have been working on getting a job so if I end up there I will have one before heading out that way. |
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Do you like mountain biking? That is what Bend is best for, the trails are un-real. Most of the good ones will be covored in snow this time of year though. |
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I love living in Bend. A lifetime of recreation is available, and you can do most sports all year long. Heck, you can climb, ski, and bike in the same day all <30 minutes from town. |
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Bend is an awful place to live. Housing is through the roof. There's traffic jams to and from Smith and the mountain. All the bolts at smith are 20 feet apart and ancient. Locals there will hike rigs in your face at every opportunity. The mtn biking trails are loaded with dogs and old people. Road biking is even worse. The hicks routinely run roadies off the pavement. Forget about getting a job (unemployment hovers around 45%). When it's not negative 10, it's well over a hundred. Forget about hiding out in the gym. It's 8 feet tall and crawling with piss-pants children. We hate beer here. HATE IT. Hope you like Bud. |
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Ryan Palo wrote:Bend is an awful place to live. Housing is through the roof. There's traffic jams to and from Smith and the mountain. All the bolts at smith are 20 feet apart and ancient. Locals there will hike rigs in your face at every opportunity. The mtn biking trails are loaded with dogs and old people. Road biking is even worse. The hicks routinely run roadies off the pavement. Forget about getting a job (unemployment hovers around 45%). When it's not negative 10, it's well over a hundred. Forget about hiding out in the gym. It's 8 feet tall and crawling with piss-pants children. We hate beer here. HATE IT. Hope you like Bud. Try boulder.Nice try Palo. Trying to dissuade mountain project folks from moving to bend is like trying to dissuade hipsters from moving to portland. unemployment be damned they'll show up with their tight pants, funny hats and designer footwear. |
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Yeah, I must admit the "spit on tourists" campaign has done little to dissuade visitors. |
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And I suspect there'll be at least one high-tech campus open there sometime in the next five years. |
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"Also we have 16 breweries" |
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I'd say the biking is world class when one considers the length of the season, variety of terrain, and quantity of trails... provided you are into cross country style trails rather than the gnar more common on the west slopes of the cascades and in Canada. |
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Thanks for the advice, I'll be sure to have a few brews |
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Ryan Palo wrote:Bend is an awful place to live. Housing is through the roof. There's traffic jams to and from Smith and the mountain. All the bolts at smith are 20 feet apart and ancient. Locals there will hike rigs in your face at every opportunity. The mtn biking trails are loaded with dogs and old people. Road biking is even worse. The hicks routinely run roadies off the pavement. Forget about getting a job (unemployment hovers around 45%). When it's not negative 10, it's well over a hundred. Forget about hiding out in the gym. It's 8 feet tall and crawling with piss-pants children. We hate beer here. HATE IT. Hope you like Bud. Try boulder.BAHAHAHHAHAAHAHA....Palo, you're so funny. |
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I am looking to do a ski traverse of the three sisters in mid May, are any of you Bend climbers interested? |