Malevolent Cartography <span id="subtitle">You can't kill me.</span> Resume Archive Contact Oregon Emerald Outback 2019 May 12, 2019 by Quinlan Pfiffer On May 3rd 2019 I left Portland with a bunch of dudes determined to finish the Oregon Emerald Outback , a 570 mile race with 55,000 or so feet of climbing. We didn’t make it to the finish line, in fact we didn’t even really come close, but we rode hard and suffered in garbage bags for eight days and had a blast. Heres the route we ended up taking: Day zero was pretty much what you’d expect, a lot of frantic getting used to the bikes and realizing we were strapped in for the long haul with no quick way out. We met up at Dragonfly Coffee and hung out for probably way too long before actually leaving. None of us were really in a hurry to do a fully loaded century up to Astoria, along highway 30. We eve...