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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Alone and empty in the middle of field, sits the abandoned Lower Eightmile School. The school's beginning date was 1904 <br /><br />The historic town of Eightmile was named by pioneer ranchers after its location on Eightmile Canyon, 8 miles up Willow Creek from the Columbia River.<br /><br />The only remaining evidence that a town or community once flourished in this small valley is the abandoned school and an old pioneer cemetery which was established in 1877. The overgrown cemetery sits in view of the school on a nearby hill.</span><br />
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Steven Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331388669815336221noreply@blogger.com0Wasco County, OR, USA45.520202883517683 -121.118667125701945.519507383517684 -121.11992762570191 45.520898383517682 -121.1174066257019tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066618958117366133.post-86021178102090841022014-05-23T23:47:00.000-07:002016-12-08T00:42:51.221-08:00Pacific Northwest Wild Flowers<span style="color: #000099;"></span><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373424552017579490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3OWObLb5T4ccm7kJODCkC1R_BfZtGw2gJ9CnAy1aMwP1y6I3LOOQYnpLddje1xllF_zbMerOroo0Wd4BcJZOH6XvnQ3qfCc7ZjT9LeEr1jD7NL-XAQv8Zqdf8dpggXbbkALuebrn0aPBf/s400/WILDFLOWERS.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /> <span style="color: #000099;"><i></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099;"><i>Title photo taken along Elk Creek - Hwy 38, Oregon</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 85%;">Oxeye Daisy, Blue-Eyed Grass, Red Clover, Yellow Oxalis, Farewell-to-Spring</span></div>
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One of the most diverse regions of the country, both in climate and vegetation, is the Pacific Northwest. From mountain ranges and valleys to seacoasts and deserts, the vegetation of this area exhibits a great diversity of ecological habitats in response to variations in latitude, proximity to the ocean, rainfall, and temperature from east to west and north to south. Forests west of the Cascades, for instance, are moist coastal rainforests dominated by conifers, while forests east of the Cascades are more like the Rocky Mountains, with a mixture of conifers and deciduous trees. Woodland wildflowers, many of which are unique to this region, abound in the shady forests, while desert and grassland species thrive in the warm, dry conditions of the interior valleys. Coastal areas offer a completely different palette of wildflowers. This collection includes some of my most favorite wildflowers I encountered in various habitats of the Pacific Northwest.</div>
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By slowing down and looking for the "simple things" I found that within these complex ecosystems, the gift of wildflowers flourish.</div>
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It wasn't until I came across one of the most "illusive" endangered Northwest wildflowers, that I gained an interest and respect for natures most precious, colorful and delicate treasure...the wildflower. While hiking and photographing the dramatic waterfalls within Silver Creek State Park, I was fortunate enough to discover the rare "Deer Orchid." Finding this endangered flower began a new goal to photograph the many Northwest wildflowers...the flowers I have missed along my many hiking adventures. This BLOG entry shares just a "petal" of what I discovered. Here are some of my favorites: <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="color: #000099;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">(I document the flower's location as to where I photographed it. These locations are not the only places where the flower may grow.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>DEERHEAD ORCHID</b></span><br />
Calypso Fairyslipper - Hider-of-the-north <i><span style="color: #006600;"></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><i>(Calypso bulbosa)</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed at Silver Creek State Park, Oregon </span></div>
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This beautiful little native orchid is rapidly being exterminated in its natural habitat due to trampling and picking. Though the orchid is widespread in the western temperate forests of Oregon, it is rather illusive and often hard to find. Calypso means 'concealment'. Native American girls from the northwest Haida tribe believed if they ate the orchids bulbs, it would improve their bust lines. Picking this orchid will break the roots and kill the plant...so it is best to look but don't touch. The least used common name, 'Hider-of-the-north' is unfortunately becoming more and more of its true name. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #38761d;">(Camissonia cheiranthifolia)</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed within the Oregon Dunes Recreational Area</span></div>
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This delicate little native flower grows in the harsh environment of the open Oregon Dunes. Its survival in such an extreme landscape is due to the large taproot that seeks out water deep within the sand. The flower is short lived, so seeing them in bloom is a great treat. Without flowers, this plant looks much like an ordinary dandelion weed. </div>
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<span style="color: black;">Shore blue-eyed grass</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #38761d;">(Sisyrinchium littorale)</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed at Cape Arago State Park, Oregon</span></div>
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This native flower was difficult to identify. I knew it was a 'blue-eyed grass', but which one, took a while and I am still not sure if I still have the right 'blue-eyed grass'. The genus is one of the most perplexing group of plants, with many, often integrating variants named as species. The name 'blue-eyed grass' is very appropriate for this flower that appear like beautiful blue 'eyes' from the side of a grass-like stem. At first I didn't see this flower. It was well hidden amongst the tall blades of field grass. </div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed near Latourell Falls - Columbia River Gorge, Oregon</span></div>
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In truth this long stemmed native tiny flower would be one I'd pass over, until I actually sat down beside one and looked at it closely. The colors intrigued me. The flower grows mostly on the wet side of the Oregon Cascades and Oregon Coast Range.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #006600;">(Impatiens capensis)</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed east of Crown Point - Columbia River Gorge, Oregon </span></div>
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This bizarre native flower amazed me. Never before had I ever seen such a treasure. I had stopped along the roadside to photographed a pink flower, when out of the corner of my eye I saw something orange. The plants leaf looked similar to the stinging nettle, so I chose not to touch any part of the plant or flower. It grows in small pockets throughout the Cascade foothills and the Gorge, and prefers moist soil and shade.</div>
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Originally the species name appears to have been <i>nolime-tangere</i>, meaning 'touch-me-not.' The plant is called this because the ripe fruits, when touched, suddenly burst open (hence <i>impatien</i>s, meaning 'impatient'). The phrase <i>'touch-me-not'</i> is in reference to the spoken words of the risen Christ to Mary Magdalene, in the Bible - <i>Luke 20:17</i>.</div>
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<span style="color: #006600;"><i>(Abronia latifolia)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed at China Creek, Bandon-by-the-Sea, Oregon</span></div>
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This rare and endangered native plant is a flat to mounding nearly non-frost tolerant perennial that will 'disappear' all the way to the roots, under stress. The flowers are yellow and grow is hemispherical heads, the size of a golf balls. The flowers are trumpet-shaped. </div>
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It grows in the loose, shifting beach sand of the fore-dunes along the immediate coast, 100-200 feet from the surf. The soil must be very loose and free of organic debris in order for the plants survival. The plant is geared for salt spray and will not tolerate regular water nor extreme drought.</div>
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Abronia is from abros, the Greek word for 'graceful' or 'delicate.' A major part of the plants endangerment is due to the non-native European Beach Grass which is has taken over the fore- dune. The Yellow Sand Verbena needs open sand to grow successfully. </div>
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This was one of the hardest flower to find. I made several trips to fore-dune areas but came home empty handed every time. While in Bandon, in late August, I finally found it. I walked a three mile stretch of the coastline between the South Jetty and China Creek, finding only three mounding clusters.</div>
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<span style="color: #006600;">(Abronia umbellata)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed at "Dog Beach" - Port Orford, Oregon</span></div>
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Salt and sand are this plant's requirements for a happy habitat. Just like the Yellow Sand Verbena, it's so adapted to salt spray that it will not tolerate regular water or extreme drought. It anchors itself in the loose shifting sand with a thick heavy taproot and grows thick, fleshy leaves to retain water during the summer dry period.</div>
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If the beach is a difficult place to survive in ordinary circumstances, imagine how much harder it is now for the pink sand-verbena. Its habitat is being crowded out by the European and American beach grasses, and while they may be here to stay, unless we intervene, the pink sand-verbena may not be.</div>
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The Pink Sand Verbena, was declared extinct in Washington and British Columbia for several years but has been re-discovered on a beach in the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve of Canada in 2001...yet did not grow in 2002. Small spotting's of the plant has been documented in Washington, but there has been no yearly successes. Pink Sand Verbena is listed as an endangered species by the State of Oregon and is considered a Species of Concern by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Historically, this species was known from beaches along the Pacific Coast from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to northern California. Invasion by introduced European beach grass, the disturbance by off-road vehicles, and encroaching beachfront developments have all contributed to the steep decline in the numbers of Pink Sand Verbena.</div>
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There are currently only about ten populations of Pink Sand Verbena in Oregon. The population at "Dog Beach" was planted by man. </div>
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In this photo, appropriately taken at "Dog Beach," my hiking buddies are completely oblivious to the small Pink Sand Verbena growing so close on the main trail to the beach. Foot traffic will determine the success of this plant. Both the Yellow and Pink Sand Verbena can be found in "large" quantities at "Dog Beach." A special thanks to Robin Sears, from the Oregon State Parks, for helping me successfully locate the Pink Sand Verbena.</div>
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Cobra Lily - Cobra Plant <i><span style="color: #006600;"><br />
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</i>Photographed at the Darlingtonia State Park - Florence, Oregon</span></div>
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The Cobra Lily is native to southwestern Oregon and northern California. This carnivorous plant lures it's insect prey with a sweet nectar which is inside the leaf opening under it's hood. Once inside, the insect becomes confused by the many transparent areas of the upper leaf surfaces, which appear to be exits. As the insect checks these false exits searching for an escape route, it is led down the tube structure and is unable to return to the top of the plant because of the slippery smooth surface of the inner tube and the sharp, downward pointing hairs which effectively block any chance of escape. Eventually, the insects will fall into a pool of liquid digestive enzyme in the base of the leaf where they are absorbed as food for the plant. This plant is designated as uncommon due to its rarity in the field. It grows in cold wet coastal bogs and wetlands. The name 'Cobra Lily' stems from the resemblance of its tubular leaves to a rearing cobra, complete with a forked leaf - ranging from yellow to purplish-green - that resemble "fangs" or a serpent's "tongue." I have seen the cobra lily many times, but never had I been in view of the plant when the flower was in bloom...until now. Though I had seen pictures of the flower, seeing one in person was a great experience. The flower is just as bizarre and unusual as the tubular stem.</div>
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Mission Bells - Chocolate Lily <span style="color: #006600;"><br /><i>
(Fritillaria lanceolata - Fritillaria affinis)</i></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZcCQQYKOCPIdwforG597I-aPVCRF0e1vGXb6X-qk-YU04IuHXEwJd5C0vWMmvBX3pevZ2F6z7q7zE9gkXIdJSW3lrqPJWR4CgD61qALmb5SrN0isVVUQWXxFmP3Bv8Gm67vwFlG7LPHgx/s1600-h/Checker+Lily+-1.jpg"></a><span style="color: #000099;"><br /><i>
</i>Photographed on the Starvation Creek Ridge Trail - Columbia River Gorge, Oregon</span><br />
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I had just crossed a bridge-less creek and started up the trail leading into a steep sloped alpine meadow. Once leaving the shadows of the scrub oak trees, many wildflowers greeted me. It was the first time on my wildflower quest that I was able to photograph up to ten different species from one small area. The native Checker Lily was one of them. The bulbs of checker lily were eaten by most Coast and Interior Native American peoples, either boiled or steamed in pits. The bulb-lets are said to be tender and delicate, resembling rice, except for having a slightly bitter taste. The Checker lily is quite rare in many places and should be left undisturbed.</div>
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I have often mistaken this rare gem as a fungus of some sort. It is definitely not a fungus once a closer inspection was taken. The small native orchid flower grows in shady conifer forests at low to mid elevations. It is easily overlooked, even at 22 inches tall. The Western Coralroot is named after F.C. Mertens, a German botanist of the late 18th and 19th centuries.</div>
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The common name Ice Plant is shared by other plant groups worldwide, but this group includes the succulent ground cover familiar to West Coast travelers and beach-goers. Its aster-like, satiny blossoms come in purples, reds and magenta's so brilliant they seem fluorescent. The flowers only open in full sun. The botanical name comes from the Greek word <i>karpos</i>, for fruit, and <i>brota</i>, for edible. (I have not tried to eat one.) The Sea Fig has become very comfortable growing in the sandy shores of Oregon and California. This plant is not native to Oregon and thought to be native to South Africa. The history of how it came to Oregon is unknown.</div>
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Oregon Lily - Tiger Lily</div>
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<span style="color: #006600;"><i>(Lilium columbianum)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed near Crown Point - Columbia River Gorge, Oregon</span></div>
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This native lily is found in a variety of habitats all over Oregon. From alpine heights to sea level, Columbia lily grows in forests, thickets and meadows. It’s a fine addition for most well-drained soil in the maritime Northwest. Indigenous people used the bulb as a starchy food source. Roasted, boiled, mixed with salmon roe, soups or dried into cakes, the lily scales added slightly sweet starch with a hint of pepper taste to the palate. The spots on the petals give rise to the superstition that smelling the lily will give you freckles.</div>
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<span style="color: #006600;"><i>(Calochortus elegans)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed at Indian Sands - Samuel Boardman State Park, Oregon</span></div>
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<i>Calochortus elegans</i> is a species of flowering plant in the lily family. It is native to the western United States from northern California to Montana. It is a perennial herb producing a slender, generally un-branched stem up to 6 inches in height. The basal leaf is 4 to 8 inches long and does not wither at flowering. This unique flower appear to be alive...animal like. It can easily be missed if you were not looking for it.</div>
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Western Cordilleran Bunchberry</div>
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<i><span style="color: #006600;">(Cornus canadensis)</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed on the summit of Larch Mountain - Columbia Gorge Region, Oregon</span></div>
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Unlike the 50 foot native Pacific Dogwood tree, the native Dwarf Dogwood grows only 4 to 8 inches high. This small dogwood grows best in an acid soil and full to partial shade. The white bracts are produced in late spring and are followed by red fruits in late summer. The plant spreads slowly by underground stems and will eventually form a thick mat. A natural beneath trees, by streams or paired with ferns and rhododendron.</div>
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Climbing Nightshade</div>
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<span style="color: #006600;"><i>(Solanum dulcamara)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed along the Oneonta Creek trail, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon</span></div>
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The Bittersweet plant is a Eurasian species, now established fairly widely in temperate North America, in our region mostly as a garden escapee. Both the vegetative parts and fruit of the European Bittersweet-Nightshade are poisonous to all kinds of livestock and to children because they contain the glycoalkaloid solanine. Symptom of being poisoned by this beautifully deceptive plant include anorexia, nausea, salivation, abdominal pain, emesis, constipation or diarrhea, apathy, drowsiness, progressive weakness/paralysis, unconsciousness...to name a few. Nervous signs build to a maximum followed by death or recovery within 1 to 2 days. It is definitely "bitter sweet" to encounter this flower.</div>
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Western Goats Beard</div>
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<span style="color: #006600;"><i>(Tragopogon dubius)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed roadside - Hwy 38 near Drain, Oregon</span></div>
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The Yellow Salsify is a weedy species introduced from Europe and grows throughout most of Oregon. The coagulated latex of the Yellow Salsify was chewed by some Native American Indian tribes like we would chew gum. This flower is a "sun lover" or "sun follower." Although the flowers do not actually follow the sun, they do close up at midday or in cloudy weather, a habit that make them often hard to find and earns them the name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon."</div>
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Indian Paintbrush - Giant Red Paintbrush)</div>
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<i><span style="color: #38761d;">(Castilleja miniata)</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photo</span><span style="color: #000099;">graphed</span><span style="color: #000099;"> on the Tom McCall Preserve Trail - Columbia River Gorge, Oregon</span></div>
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Oregon is blessed to have a large collection of native varieties of Indian Paintbrush. From a distance, the flowers all look alike and one would assume they are all the same kind of Paintbrush...but a closer look reveals differences in the foliage and colors of flowers.</div>
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The <i>Castillejas, (Indian Paintbrush) </i>are parasitic on the roots of other plants. They sometimes fasten their roots upon those of their neighbors and prey upon juices already partially absorbed. For this reason, Indian Paintbrush do not transplant well. </div>
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Native American Indians made a decoction of seeds from the Scarlet Paintbrush and swallowed for coughs and taken as a purgative and diuretic. They also used the decoction for stopping bleeding, helping a lame back, stiff lungs and sore eyes. Their children sucked the flower nectar of these plants. The root bark was used as an ingredient to color various kinds of animal skins. Native Americans also covered the bright flowers with snail slime and used the mixture to trap hummingbirds.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">Indian Potato</span></div>
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<span style="color: #006600;"><i>(Brodiaea coronaria)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed along Catherine Creek Trail - Columbia River Gorge, Washington</span></div>
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Native Americans gathered up the bulbs of this beautiful native plant with a wooden digging stick and ate potato-like tasting bulbs. They harvested the bulbs about the first of May when the shoots were just appearing above the ground. They cooked the bulbs in an earth oven and/or boiled them. The Harvest Brodiaea were easier to dig than a close relative, and so it is believed that the plant name comes from the fact that the "Brodiaea" were the ones to "harvest"...(<i>Harvest</i> the <i>Brodiaea</i>). An alternative explanation for the common name is that brodiaeas bloom later in summer than most lilies. They bloom during the harvest.</div>
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<span style="color: #006600;"><i>(Nymphaea odorata)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed in the Oregon National Dunes, Oregon</span></div>
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<i>Nymphaea odorata</i> is native to the eastern half of North America, including southern Canada. It has been introduced as an ornamental in many parts of the world. It is believed that the fragrant water lily was introduced into the Northwest during the Alaska Pacific Yukon Exposition held in Seattle in the late 1800s. Although found throughout the Northwest, the fragrant water lily is especially prevalent in lakes west of the Cascades where it has been intentionally planted by property owners who admired the showy flowers. This beautiful flowering plant is on Washington's and California's invasive noxious weed list. Why "environmental" Oregon doesn't have it listed on their noxious weed list is mystery.</div>
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<span style="color: #006600;"><i>(Dichelostemma congestum)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed roadside - Hwy 38 near Drain, Oregon</span></div>
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I was just entering Drain, when out of the corner of my eye I noticed a hillside of green with purple "dots" waving in the wind. This plant impressed me. Each flower cluster stood on a one foot tall, stout stem. This beautiful flower grows in poor soil. I returned later in the summer and collected some of the seeds. Since the plant grows in poor soil, I might try growing it in my backyard.</div>
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Corpse Plant - Ghost Plant</div>
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<span style="color: #006600;"><i>(Monotropa uniflora)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed along the upper Oneonta Trail - Columbia River Gorge, Oregon</span></div>
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An old expression says that <i>"where there's a will, there's a way."</i> In the natural world, however, it often seems to be the other way around. "<i>Where there's a way, nature invents the will." </i>The fascinating plant called Indian Pipe is a great case in point.</div>
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Indian Pipe is one of the easiest plants to recognize, when or if you can find them. Though common in the wet western forests, the plant 'seems' to appear and disappear. I think finding them is a treat.</div>
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Unlike most plants, Indian-pipe doesn’t have chlorophyll, the ingredient that makes plants green. Since Indian-pipe has no chlorophyll, it can actually grow without any sunlight...but it can't make its own food like most plants. Therefore, it has to "borrow" nutrients, either from decaying plant matter, or from another organism. Roots of the Indian-pipe are connected via fungi to the roots of nearby coniferous trees. Though this flower looks like a fungas...it is not, but it does rely on fungi to survive.</div>
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In the Nlaka'pamux Indian native language, the name for Indian-pipe means 'wolf's urine'. They believe it grows wherever a wolf urinates. It also indicates that the harvest of the wood mushroom is near. The plant was also used medically to help stop bleeding wounds that would not heal.</div>
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Even though Indian Pipe is an unusually beautiful plant, don't bother picking it...it will wilt and turns black very quickly.</div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>LARGE FLOWERED COLLOMIA</b></span></div>
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Mountain Collomia - Grand Collomia</div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><i>(Collomia grandiflora)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed along the Catherine Creek Trail - Columbia River Gorge, Washington</span></div>
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Though the name of this native flower gives reference to being 'grand' and 'large', it is actually quite small compared to most flowers...but the plant can grow to 3 feet. The plant is an annual and is more abundant on disturbed sites than in relatively undisturbed grasslands or sagebrush, which means that it is a common plant along the roadside. <i>Collomia</i> is from the Greek <i>kolla</i> for 'glue,' since the seeds have a coat that turns very sticky when wet.</div>
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Sitka Columbine</div>
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<span style="color: #006600;"><i>(Aquilegia formosa)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed near Bridal Veil Falls - Columbia River Gorge, Oregon</span></div>
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This beautiful native flower should have been Oregon's state flower, in my opinion...but the Oregon Grape won that title. <i>Aquilegia</i> comes from the Latin word <i>aquil</i>, meaning eagle, referring to the shape of the petals. <i>Formosa</i> means beautiful. Indeed, the native columbine fits the descriptive epithet. The common name, columbine, stems from the Latin word, <i>columbina</i>, meaning <i>dove-like</i>. Native American people used the columbine for many different purposes. Some thought the flower, as well as the whole plant, was a good luck charm, they warned the children to not pick the flower or it will rain. California Natives ate it as a vegetable after boiling the early spring greens. British Columbia natives treated the flowers like candy, the children sucking out the sweet nectar from the spurs...no wonder it rains a lot in western Canada, hence the name Red Rain-flower. </div>
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I am amazed how many uses the Native People found for this plant. Medicinally, the plant was used as an analgesic and antirheumatic by rubbing the leaves over aching joints. Some chewed the leaves for coughs and sore throats and made a decoction of roots for a cold remedy. They made perfumes by chewing the seeds and rubbing it on their bodies and clothing, and not from the flower, although we often think it is the source for fragrance. The columbine was considered a love medicine plant. The women used it as a good-luck-charm, to gain men’s affection.</div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>LANCE-LEAFED STONECROP</b></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #38761d;">(Sedum lanceolatum)</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Photographed in the Blalock Canyon - Columbia River Gorge, Oregon</span></div>
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The Lance-leafed Stonecrop is native to the northwest, and grows on basalt or sandstone outcrops and rocky soils at high elevations, even though this plant is growing just a few hundred feet above sea level. The word Sedum comes from the Latin word sedo, "to sit," referring to the way many species grow. I chose this flower based on the photo. I liked the way the sedum was growing amongst the drought stricken rock moss.</div>
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Red Chickweed - Poorman's Barometer</div>
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<span style="color: #006600;"><i>(Anagallis avensis)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed in an abandoned gravel parking lot - Coos Bay, Oregon</span></div>
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The Scarlet Pimpernel is known to most people as a famous literary character but it is the common name of this flower generally regarded as a weed in the Northern Hemisphere. <i>Anagallis arvensis</i> goes by a lot of names: the "red pimpernel", "red chickweed", "poor man's weather glass", "shepherd's weatherglass" and "shepherd's clock", to name some.</div>
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It is a low-growing, non-native annual plant in the Myrsinaceae family, originating in Europe, and grows in Asia and North America. </div>
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The common names "poor man's weatherglass", "shepherd's weatherglass" and "shepherd's clock" relate to the fact that the flowers close when bad weather is approaching. </div>
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The presence of the flower is usually an indication of light soils. The flower is most noted for being the emblem of the fictional hero the Scarlet Pimpernel.</div>
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Western Trumpet Honeysuckle</div>
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<span style="color: #006600;"><i>(Lonicera ciliosa)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed near Sheppard Dell Falls - Columbia River Gorge, Oregon</span></div>
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This native honeysuckle runs freely on the ground or clambers up trees, sometimes reaching a length of 18 ft. The flower attracts hummingbirds and other wildlife for the sweet nectar. Berries may be mildly poisonous if eaten.</div>
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The woody vines were used by native peoples for weaving, binding, lashing, and even for suspension bridges. The Orange Honeysuckle was first noted by the Lewis & Clark Expedition on June 5, 1806, at Camp Chopunnish, Idaho County, Idaho.</div>
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<span style="color: #006600;"><i>(Vancouveria hexandra)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed atop Latourell Falls - Columbia River Gorge, Oregon</span><br />
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Inside-out flower is named after Captain George Vancouver and its epithet <i>hexandra</i>, means six stamens. The flowers resemble the blossoms of the native Shooting Star. The Inside-out flower grows in woodlands dominated by Douglas fir, White oak, Western hemlock, Silver fir, Noble fir and Western red cedar, as well as mixed evergreen and broadleaf deciduous forests. The Native Americans chewed the leaves for a cough medicine. Modern medicinal uses are for sinus congestion, chronic rhinitis and hay fever.</div>
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Mosquito Bills - Sailor Caps <span style="color: #006600;"><br />
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All shooting stars belong to a genus of flowering plants <i>Dodecatheon...</i>and there are many. Their unique look makes them an easily identifiable flower. Shooting Stars are exclusively native to North America where they grow in leafy and slightly moist soils in woods or meadows in partially shaded to sunny spots.</div>
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<span style="color: #006600;"><i>(Dodecatheon dentatum)</i></span></div>
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It was almost a given to find this rare native flower growing within the canyon walls of the Oneonta Gorge. The White Shooting Star grows in shady places along streams, and within wet meadows. Shooting Stars are good examples of the 'buzz pollination.' They have to rely on bees and other flying insects to provide proper pollination for their survival.</div>
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<i>Dodecatheon</i> means 'twelve gods,' from the Greek word <i>dodeka</i> ('twelve') and <i>thoes</i> ('god'), which can be interpreted to mean, a plant is protected by the pantheon...'every god.'</div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed at Cape Arago State Park, Oregon</span></div>
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Most English Daisies are white with the yellow center, but every once in a while you'll come across a cluster of them with purple tips. It is thought that the name "daisy" is a corruption of "day's eye", because the whole head closes at night and opens in the morning. Chaucer called it "eye of the day". Geoffrey Chaucer was an English author, and poet and was sometimes called the father of English literature...hence the "English Daisy."</div>
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This native to Europe is not affected by mowing and is therefore often considered a weed on lawns, though many also value the appearance of the flowers, including children who spend many summer hours making daisy chains. Daisy is also a common girl's name and is a nickname for girls named Margaret, which originally comes from the Latin word for daisy. </div>
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In ancient Rome, the surgeons who accompanied Roman legions into battle would order their slaves to pick sacks full of daisies in order to extract their juice. Bandages were then soaked in this juice and then would be used to bind sword and spear cuts.</div>
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<span style="color: #006600;"><i>(Balsamorhiza rosea)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"></span> </span>This rare native plant is found on rocky soils and is limited to a small area near the Wallula Gap in Oregon and Washington, the Columbia Basin, and the Columbia Scablands. It is considered a hard flower to find even though it grow in large quantities in its limited habitat. Rosy balsamroot is an attractive, ground-hugging perennial with a carrot-like taproot. The taproot is in part the reason for its success in the harsh desert environment. The flowers are deep yellow, becoming rosy red with age.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #38761d;">(Campanula rotundifolia)</span></i></div>
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Some Native American Indians called this paper like native flower the 'Blue Rain Flower.' Much like the legendary myth associated with the Red Columbine, children were told not to pick this flower or it would rain. It grows on moist slopes and in meadows, and is found in the summer along the roadside throughout the western region of the Columbia Gorge.</div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><i>(Myosotis stricta)</i></span></div>
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This small native little flower can easily be overlooked...they are that small. I just so happen to be photographing another flower when I noticed this grouping of the Small-leafed Forget-me-Not growing next to me.</div>
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The Forget-Me-Not flower is a favorite wild flower of many, however, this small, blue flower has been a symbol of both love and hope, adopted by many organizations. There are many myths and legends attached to the naming of the Forget-Me-Not flower. In a German legend, God named all the plants when a tiny unnamed one cried out, "<i>Forget-me-not, O Lord</i>!" God replied, "<i>That shall be your name</i>." In another legend, the little flower cried out, "<i>Forget-me-not</i>!" as Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden. The Christ child was sitting on Mary's lap one day and said that he wished that future generations could see her eyes. He touched her eyes and then waved his hand over the ground and blue forget-me-nots appeared, hence the name forget-me-not.</div>
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Henry IV adopted the flower as his symbol during his exile in 1398, and retained the symbol upon his return to England the following year. In the 15th century Germany, it was supposed that the wearers of the flower would not be forgotten by their lovers. Legend has it that in medieval times, a knight and his lady were walking along the side of a river. He picked a posy of flowers, but because of the weight of his armor he fell into the river. As he was drowning he threw the posy to his loved one and shouted "<i>Forget-me-not</i>". This is a flower connected with romance and tragic fate. It was often worn by ladies as a sign of faithfulness and enduring love. Most people use these in weddings for love.</div>
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<span style="color: #006600;"><i>(Clarkia unguiculata)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed at the Elk Creek Tunnel - Hwy 38, Oregon</span></div>
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In the moist conditions of the Pacific Northwest, these lovely meadow native annuals can reach about 3 to 4 feet for a magnificent show. All clarkias are named for Captain Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. These pretty red flowers really do mean that spring is over, you'll find them growing beginning in late April after the rains have ended for the season. This grouping of flowers was man planted, after the bridges were replaced at each end of the Elk Creek Tunnel. Native annuals, perennials, and native trees were replanted over the disturbed land.</div>
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Sour Grass - Sleeping Beauty <span style="color: #006600;"><br />
<i>(Oxalis corniculata)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed in my flowerbed - Coos Bay, Oregon</span></div>
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This non-native plant originated from South America. It is considered an obnoxious weed and can take over a flowerbed if you don't pull them when the plant is small. I personally like the little "clover" and yellow flower, so I have allowed it to grow in some areas. It does make for a great ground cover though. The name Sour Grass is easy to remember by children who have tasted the leaves or unripe seed capsules. The tart bite of this plant is not unpleasant but the plant should not be consumed in large amounts due to the toxicity of the oxalic acid, the chemical responsible for the sour taste.</div>
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This native flower is one of the humbler, early flowering <i>Synthyris</i> species and grows in the dim light of the early spring woods. Its low dark flowers are easily overlooked. In fact, I wouldn't have noticed this flower if it wasn't for the time I was photographing a waterfall. I lost my balance and slid down an embankment. When I came to a muddy stop, there next to me was the Snow Queen flower. Discovering it by my accident made me forget my fall, and was glad I did fall. </div>
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<span style="color: #006600;"><i>(Allium siskiyouense)</i></span></div>
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This rare wild onion is native to the Klamath Mountains and Coastal Range in southwestern Oregon and nearby ranges in northern California. It grows in open, usually serpentine, rocky soils in higher the elevations.</div>
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Blue Violet - Sand Violet</div>
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<i><span style="color: #38761d;">(Viola adunca)</span></i></div>
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The Western Dog Violet, is a common early blooming native violet found throughout the Western United States and states bordering Canada. Because of its wide distribution, it goes by many names, including early blue violet and hooked-spur violet. In the Pacific Northwest, it begins blooming in March at lower elevations. They are fairly small flowers that grow low to the ground, so they can often go unnoticed or stay hidden in the grass. They are found in a variety of habitats, however they prefer meadows and around forest edges. It is edible and the color makes for a splashy garnish or salad additive.</div>
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Cow Lily - Yellow Pond Lily</div>
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<i><span style="color: #38761d;">(Nuphar polysepala)</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Photographed in the Oregon National Dunes, Oregon</span></div>
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This native aquatic plant gives off alcohol instead of carbon dioxide as it takes in oxygen. Native Americans ground the seeds for flower and also roasted them as popcorn. It was also used medically for numerous illnesses, including colds, tuberculosis, internal pains, ulcers, rheumatism, chest pains, asthma, heart conditions, and cancer.</div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">The diverse landscape of Oregon and Washington provides an excellent array of thousands of wildflowers that love the Pacific Northwest. I have photographed over 300 different wild flowers so far, but the flowers in this blog posting are just a few of my favorites.</span> </div>
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Chief Mate Johann Steinke of the Tall Ship Lady Washington </div>
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The Tall Ship Hawaiian Chieftain peacefully sails through the waters of Coos Bay Oregon.</div>
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Tall Ship Lady Washington in the Coos Bay</div>
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Educational Director Monica on the Tall Ship Hawaiian Chieftain</div>
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The Hawaiian Chieftain fires at the Lady Washington</div>
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Educational Director entertains the crowd while sailing on the Lady Washington</div>
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Tall Ship Lady Washington in the Coos Bay.</div>
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Tall Ship Lady Washington</div>
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Tall Ship Hawaiian Chieftain in the Coos Bay</div>
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Tall Ship Lady Washington in the Coos Bay.</div>
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Tall Ship Hawaiian Chieftain in the Coos Bay.</div>
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"Jas", the Chief Engineer for the Hawaiian Chieftain, in greatly focused as the ship comes into dock while the Lady Washington comes up from behind.</div>
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Deckhand Kaila stands ready for instruction to hoist the sails.</div>
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Tall Ship Hawaiian Chieftain passes under the historic McCullough Bridge.</div>
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Tall Ship Lady Washington in the Coos Bay.</div>
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Johann Steinke, Chief Mate of the Tall Ship Lady Washington</div>
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Deckhand Megan stand proud as the Lady Washington sails in the Coos Bay.</div>
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Chief Mate Johann Steinke of the Tall Ship Lady Washington.</div>
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Tall Ship Hawaiian Chieftain in the Coos Bay</div>
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"Jas", the Chief Engineer on the Tall Ship Hawaiian Chieftain, stands intense preparing for docking in Coos Bay.</div>
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Crew member of the Hawaiian Chieftain prepares to lower the sails for battle.</div>
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Crew members of the Tall Ship Lady Washington do a balancing act while tying up the sails.</div>
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Deckhand Davey of the Tall Ship Lady Washington</div>
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Releasing the sails on the Tall Ship Hawaiian Chieftain</div>
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Kaila is a crew member of the Tall Ship Lady Washington</div>
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The Hawaiian Chieftain returning to port from a windy battle with the Lady Washington.<br />
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Daisy Archer, the Bosun for the Hawaiian Chieftain, throws the rope in style.<br />
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Tall Ship Lady Washington</div>
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Crew members of the Tall Ship Hawaiian Chieftain</div>
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Tall Ship Hawaiian Chieftain in the Coos Bay.</div>
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Kaila is a crew member of the Tall Ship Lady Washington.</div>
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Deckhand Davey helps a young visitor aboard the Lady Washington</div>
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Crew member of the Tall Ship Lady Washington releases the ship from the dock.</div>
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The tight walk on the Lady Washington</div>
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Monica stands proudly on the dock awaiting visitors for an upcoming tour aboard the Hawaiian Chieftain.</div>
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Chief Mate Johann Steinke of the Tall Ship Lady Washington</div>
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Crew member of the Hawaiian Chieftain dangles by a rope to release the sails.</div>
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Crew members of the Lady Washington and <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">the Hawaiian Chieftain, officially make the Port of Coos Bay an official port for the Tall Ships. The Mayor of Coos Bay accepts the welcome.</span></span></span></div>
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Verboort, Oregon<br />
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Old Scotts Church near Hillsboro, Oregon<br />
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The Red Barn ~ near Hillsboro, Oregon</div>
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Horsetail Falls ~ Columbia River Gorge, Oregon</div>
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Sheppards Dell Historic Bridge ~ Columbia River Gorge, Oregon</div>
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Farm land near Beaverton, Oregon</div>
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Multnomah Falls ~ Columbia River Gorge, Oregon</div>
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Abandoned on Leisy Road near Cornelius, Oregon</div>
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Gorton Creek ~ Columbia River Gorge, Oregon</div>
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Horsetail Creek ~ Columbia River Gorge, Oregon</div>
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Farm land near Hillsboro, Oregon</div>
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Latourel Falls ~ Columbia River Gorge, Oregon</div>
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The Farm ~ Cornelius, Oregon</div>
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The Turquoise Barn near Hillsboro, Oregon</div>
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The Barn on Old Scotts Road ~ near Hillsboro, Oregon</div>
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Bandon, Oregon</div>
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Coquille River Lighthouse ~ Bandon Oregon</div>
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Face Rock ~ Bandon, Oregon</div>
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Face Rock ~ Bandon, Oregon</div>
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Coquille River Lighthouse ~ Bandon, Oregon</div>
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Steven Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331388669815336221noreply@blogger.com0Bandon, OR, USA43.10879238074412 -124.4324188181470843.062425380744124 -124.51309981814708 43.155159380744117 -124.35173781814709tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066618958117366133.post-14889330015045368322014-04-11T22:42:00.002-07:002014-09-17T20:35:29.921-07:00Samuel Boardman State Park<div align="center">
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Steven Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331388669815336221noreply@blogger.com0Samuel H Boardman State Park, Brookings, OR 97415, USA42.1575973 -124.3613687999999841.9692713 -124.68409229999997 42.345923299999995 -124.03864529999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066618958117366133.post-53776960379287361972014-02-27T21:01:00.000-08:002014-02-27T21:30:27.308-08:00What on Earth is a Concretion?<div align="center">
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The word "concretion" is derived from the Latin words "con" – meaning "together" – and "cresco" – meaning "to grow."</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7sNK32dPjYE-7mWNH_GNSot1EuN_CVK3fXf-rhozJJ7iS7TviNDi7FgDTOoPE6YUzqqM5sczyCL59BGbZj6HAB4PjkaJuFVWhdMmqiJlb7MY-FGFpinyjAHXHONRV5YvmWneEuAlRZ9r3/s400/100_6533.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303959052195476242" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">A rock that grows? Is there really such a thing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg_C_Azno6iCTUKxfpy1JdZzRC7EmDpSdNPuUzQHmRiNEszNigumuBUR3sClzjhwHbYEKVDUwnodWW6zXSimH6uYNQd-TPaAwB18_E1OmjYA7VsgmWuDMbxCtou75MkMDXAEHpcRFQUrNI/s320/DSC01393.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303962713811107394" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 240px;" /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">...so what exactly is a concretion?</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNQZlZxhV6SmB5ENjjTA_gmUbe5t1m1sKoOMwn_8bqnPBAPAD624csmQ8G07-PmCCVFuIKuKqLARCAND8f4IKSymPY_w7di3oveWsHemrjj721wCAC_W965i5MsBy6mLY6-qvGf5c-tk01/s400/DSC01197.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303959056739962850" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">A concretion is a compact mass of mineral matter, usually spherical or disk-shaped, embedded in a host rock of a different composition. <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYrR4wJwdprclqkM9ELo8hBhsPQI7MLCslRJ1K0AgjUN6Oj8NWRlp5h6HZyrIlQnxkVoDn3pMxCOQwgbPStCyyxvRnck0j9M9Df82rI0kVsb1V3MovyRpIzJI5c0hSPqg2jdnd0CdEPZIZ/s400/DSC08982.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303959699400796546" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" />This hard, round mass of sedimentary rock cement is carried into place by ground water.<img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTneD7isJUWh0Iyl526NiNAOIZ8EK6R6jTSyRS0LAqD7iBHcy_N7FezSRao9h6tPiLew2i3qtYpFNXYUMJINnREfXuOpeW_Qz3GaWxO7Kd8lVFhQQeYJ6edfDCmUkG5jEAQRRkzETLANEj/s400/100_6528.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303961040035854514" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIcg-biHXDNR7AvTmuT_QkNsEsEgZnmAyXHsBpzIeXKH9ff7KcvVnl4NM3bicA6s_U5kGxOWQsLx3zQ5GE_jTY1WJGSR91HfdJ58S2cQdABJbFqjKwYeO3SfL2q5cvS490y4A1LN2D0H_v/s320/DSC01361.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305015389097619282" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 240px;" /> They usually form early in the burial history of sediment, before the rest of the sediment has hardened into solid rock. Concretions, the most varied-shaped rocks of the sedimentary world, occur when a considerable amount of cementing material collects locally around a nucleus, often organic, such as a leaf, tooth, piece of shell or fossil, dead and/or decade matter - like a crab or fish. Most concretions form around marine invertebrates...but are not limited to marine life.</span><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg833ju3iUtU9JSHtBtr9e0xufflPd9_8eSUJFB18WEX5ub_wZSk8Sfn8gPQStxywwMEemPIpVgZYEgqGfhSv_sva4x1cTidoWLlxF3hCqBMZqLvUJKHuDiGFeoy6-dJobNRthd0zpGsZu9/s400/CON-8x10.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303959055866221186" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Concretions vary in size, shape, hardness, and color, from objects that require a magnifying lens to be clearly visible to huge bodies 10 feet in diameter and weighing several hundred pounds. <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqv3ot7dPfNqYwPeCn88tFcbhFodwOmZ70oz8_E1eCmvd2VkJw4sCaSeAdq0P53CY135A2REWeiIHOQyZdh-PLlHv82qCRLMNnTMFFSX8s_qRG22G0dR_IUuEsMNnrUVIv_z0YNGE_F8OZ/s400/100_6495.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303960811092593666" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 298px;" />Concretions are world wide and very common, but here in Oregon, the largest concentration of concretions are found throughout the Cape Arago Headland.<img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSSQ0cI91NBoSK8ZFWt10c5ElMmnnOFRDf2sCiSvXKgvGUbedldjiemcPY4xVCP_nv0vSwZzssL18EhKHK3k_8Qwe3GQRwuq0xa4I0ijHey8WZu2jDY47krtzCe_HO9u9_afdzAesZ41ZQ/s400/DSC01970.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309206052083794802" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /> These locations includes Yoakum Point, Sunset Bay, Norton Gulch, Shore Acres, the Simpson Reef Mainland, and the "giants", found near Fossil Point.<img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgooAgP9AyMel_-eAqnbGba2o3FnvXc6LdUbv0bmd2IAcJpCZn1Teq5S3cfjxaiZnWz0b5JlynDUDR8LlXYmvW3Fh81cZaxXjpiWoCdB2rcFHW7aRVF665YN0KzxzWbHjXKIgVkIgeqh4mx/s400/DSC01328.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305012522203137650" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiva7Zw_oIipGhZzY5X1T0W6fbslPPMQDVjS7rtH0qWfDKPJEjgdXKrPMo4H6XEuqYB4vKIPIZ1gESj99BINrhyphenhyphenZc0tiMi0Ckte9LLeBhkPtltKAiMkh6POUtq11GlX4AijqWc0rEjiV54X/s320/DSC01202.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305015387280630258" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">These "grown together" rocks have a variety of origins that require geologists to integrate information from a variety of disciplines, including biology, chemistry, soil science, meteorology and geology itself.</span> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqROF_NFETOdnJ_njWfqfCUJQaRbfdlgLFJ0FX5KfbC6MWqVu5u7wudwJaye4M7gBS0RYq0NFRkBS8_pz5lReKugPF-jt10HOhnQCu-fGLUTUbOzIXBlpF1TVldsFFSUOUajZywLaN-XNX/s320/DSC04986.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305015383973402898" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 213px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">In this photo, my mother is standing above a concretion...or I should say, half a concretion. Half of the rock has fallen away, while the remaining half has not eroded out. This "side cut" profile looks like what half of a jaw-breaker would resemble.</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-eFGqfnId8IlwiaKXpUnSOp2IUmwyBHxnXZ-IkQ-C1vM4C4Q3COMBKKTubeKluXlc3-P9AlY4bmTmHsITnz1dJyFwzt53OyzwzWTYiS0Dj-2CQi44WUCFck_U6l8vCFLNACNvOYjkxJKO/s400/DSC03845.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305012524009367618" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" />Concretions are commonly misunderstood geologic structures. Descriptions dating from the 18th century attest to the fact that concretions have long been regarded as geological curiosities.<img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3mLQSRVkmmDZjZ9vZwRkzKfO6txLuVGA_Ux2_V1aTPsa4LCenqvFRZvbFg_hZgKpq3pnZQAfkHYlwlV6yEQvd-fCfJdpX8RQUPowZHAVKNtENeujPso3_F7LyWZKEWF5wJ_UxyBXlb7Th/s400/DSC04183.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305012520753338834" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /> Concretions are often mistaken for dinosaur fossil eggs, turtle eggs, or shells, or bones, human artifacts and even extraterrestrial debris. <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGq2EsCe-l-4qlwjKuPc7sr7ux6nLt0Rvjdq19L_GulhCxPCYCwSJXqE-qKjjXqUcPjZOPEi1N3O31sO8_btpX8r8Lhve4PgihrDNU1gOkCY-ixJnNbSeXw1Gt64UxwXTj3pZL4Nr3JX10/s400/DSC04179.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305012524386327490" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" />They are actually not fossils, artifacts, or even debris from space, but a very common geologic phenomenon in all types of sedimentary rock; which include sandstone, shale, siltstone, and limestone. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC98bZFHM1ge7TTWn3XExOmTVCB-_XOrZ8RJAjIhhvWMVqyjrIsP5P7dl5aKN5cF0UQ5qU2WlC_P0dswZ-3gQu4f1gjzYx62RHtUemn5wlglx-1jc6lZ8R_NH4Znxla-Xuhvhd_Q81Futv/s1600-h/DSC03800.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC98bZFHM1ge7TTWn3XExOmTVCB-_XOrZ8RJAjIhhvWMVqyjrIsP5P7dl5aKN5cF0UQ5qU2WlC_P0dswZ-3gQu4f1gjzYx62RHtUemn5wlglx-1jc6lZ8R_NH4Znxla-Xuhvhd_Q81Futv/s320/DSC03800.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303962717824638370" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">In this photo, my buddy Gus is sitting amongst a collection of concretions partially embedded in a sandstone cliff on the south wall of Simpson Beach at Shore Acres State Park.</span> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyHVrl31ONv13T1GYAUylAN4bJ6707GhE5uTDO812vhjK6kj7Ui1jxNAk-zAMD9h11UB_RiaP_yfl4JaRkV8FK7kbg6rwvx1YOXi18DRmEC5ycqfQO8WHjpg3JDR425zYQm6JfP3AUrbVI/s1600-h/DSC01402.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyHVrl31ONv13T1GYAUylAN4bJ6707GhE5uTDO812vhjK6kj7Ui1jxNAk-zAMD9h11UB_RiaP_yfl4JaRkV8FK7kbg6rwvx1YOXi18DRmEC5ycqfQO8WHjpg3JDR425zYQm6JfP3AUrbVI/s320/DSC01402.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303962719643621090" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 240px;" /></a> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Slowly eroding out, at Shore Acres State Park, this concretion has recently revealed itself. Eventually it will erode completely out of the cliff...but when, only time will tell.</span><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWR30qioOksLF_E04ppF3iVtpdul44KXRnwSNuAZ-uIHUgfRCg-1AOOfJPuv1xE9XrMOTFeZq_5qTHKyjNIoBXuegrjIVP-iDHGX2RfZvDrvaOwE4mirVOM2Z4niKFdJZTLGlQoDfbWuGG/s400/CON-2.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305012528290239394" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 266px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Much like taking kids into a candy store, here, my friends Buddy and Nicole, collect concretions with much excitement from a rocky beach unofficially named "Concretion Cove". Their great finds are used as artwork in their living room. <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0mVO61snuxduI1InA8QbT2ziCzbs9h9Sb0ZFM6HtHlGSvwJNUfO12jGu99K4JIhfTbV6P0Ts4DFInNHjxEW7VSWy0Vescm_pyqZot2NxMLWa8mwLkRygX0oYvZ_dD5cKq5Se9-fvBWzF4/s400/CON-1.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305012874581114306" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 266px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">My Friends Brian and Tyler-Marie collected their share of treasures as well. You can find concretions from the size of golf balls to the size of bowling balls in "Concretion Cove" <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCQi6TiFU4dAYvqHOI6H2UdznO62LmvRi5HjQ7hkeXDswk2SIwOzzcRM40Fd9iKY-vqQZLKxsgQ_c59IDAF_bKaeNbV_sOA6P8M2AahbtT2A2bcQLuVMqHoceKp-TmcAMzqGoKENGckL_x/s400/026_26.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309205667069907938" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /> </span><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoCbp3_5NW6OnHR_CGhgNpBoXpviWPHxT0LiKGpEQPPsHcXrftOlJDolHK-aChObgAbcxqLzw4DSXmV7QkjSsDYhkrLVym8tC1NzB7c8ku8tStOAmvjU3opYT-WpDFGjjqVmEDK0MFrAad/s320/DSC04194.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305015394128822450" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Gus stands next to one of my favorite concretions. In this photo, the size of the rock is apparently no larger than a softball...but scroll back up to the first photo. (It is the same rock, artistically captured to appear much larger than it really is.)</span> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFuLuM9hFp44S0uyOQDBn7D51Cjgj3qdC9TvxRLWvaBrFbecLwKKsANK1pnnmIfuA2cZbB9fcSiahP4vQLqwnN3un8q7blp3BUveyfbtf-ky5HMOy8x9dK6LaNoxdaq2mRLsWFWXaib0-t/s400/DSC04950.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303959692486921762" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">In this photo, Gus is standing in front of unusually shaped concretions along the Yoakum Point Concretion Wall complex.<img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0zoEUjwApAIbYbYEcosiTwiLqDXRRKhyiodmcByCxLpWOBsZLv6r2VKsue-mlvspRLf9V5jurk2A5obQ9n43YU4JBIwX2eXqrsrQOL4EbQqWJiR3_O0F3-7QMDKDaWof3wSKjM3v0okAe/s320/DSC04234.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305015891190779714" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Some of the best concretions to photograph are in places that are difficult to get too. Some cliff-hanging rock climbing is required...but not recommended.</span><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg26BdtN0wdIHQhpQMQmgbdVy8a3pjVUDqSpDUDzZXOzOQLelzgz6n_Ohm3l6YelT9FNSbIGgxo_rWTLGyXKfmh4to089x24qWX81-ABPVrj3bI4_v4DLyG_yoOvk2UIEc05sz4hyX1V7CE/s400/100_6483.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303961035408501922" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Concretions throughout the Cape Arago Headland are comprised mostly of silica, embedded in sandstone. Silica gives them a strength so solid that attempting to break them open only results in a destroyed rock of rubble...that is if you can break them at all.</span><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-u7JOLVkwwbKKZSCrGk__s50ptw1jBfBlcc3WrjNXNxaGaXXeuSH4btW33SNYAsBDMV2s23PAb20rO-fZReziT05I1AoVVWEb-fAa9zhpyWFjEB6L8FKiTUGxVCgHdizjX_bBy7XqMZ5Q/s400/DSC03863.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303959694397123106" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Concretions exposed on the southern cliffs of Shore Acres State Park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 180%;">The "<span style="font-family: verdana;">GIANTS</span>"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 180%;"></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8xLcQGNIZezB3KG8eT3gHzR5OE3XnrxoBlaicPHqnGREjjnJFOH-6MwNBSN1oaOsVKmfRXm2A7nJaro4ffJ1TWonVwFdTkjr0spEy0z3E7cxisRabZdlININuAuuO731gkd5_Hnv8vidV/s400/100_3057.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305012883268811890" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The "Giant" Concretions are located just north of Fossil Point - along the Coos River near the Charleston area. This phenomenal collection of concretions consist of anywhere between 150 to 170 rocks.</span><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmzHDpOY3JbIoHRGu7Nloyp_apwnGIgQPsEGBAcSW1aQWimEufF-qIrF-pxZMvo0_X5ILnBNFOqDdrF0M4D-sj8dN9MQpYH4HIVorQqUO3_FoolDPdrzSr1kqkSxLbsxfWoIs1r3_KGHyx/s320/DSC01217.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303962711246806098" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">These giant concretions do not indicate that the nucleus that started the formation is of a large format. These rocks could have also formed around the same size leaf, tooth or crab as those of the baseballs and bowling balls. Their size though could indicate the conditions were perfect to form over a longer period of time...allowing them to gain "giant" status. </span><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWEerbAw9T34EOvHqk21144dYCvjA08QJV4XyTUXePe9Z7j_itP_HoRKjkywThinIAbrNJxSHTI-ZppG8wgEbfPsY8KQREltf-lk9wRqwCJbxJbd2E4hvyAwyv6jRZc60QYC4AALSHD1GK/s400/100_3121.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305013648408544338" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">In this photo, a giant concretion is slowly eroding out away from the softer rock which entombed it. Only the rock's top 1/4 is currently exposed. Once out, the rock will be one of the largest "giants" in the area. Just how long it will take to be completely freed will depend on mother nature. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCq1USEIcDHMf5Neg8SyhvLg7_kjPjpK5oyOxt1xeAKO5Df7zEEQChd8VATlWvNd5JujV1lbxZZ4DCqzIUPq1gWwbfrd203k0BydA0X85WjDLGcNM2U1uFQEaYu-ZseApQCNhav4a_uLfh/s1600-h/100_3052.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiprUZMt_cWmWPgidwj-3iqtdf2elzcxnkfreWxQkxSRsdV2Q9KneTOl3Tt1Dp1y3Gm5BFVO5kfPI6qy-lusSsbbZskKbS_gl-Hm0R_0fW4oYOBBJwLiOeIJlXEMGEBr3luzR6o3_JnbtBg/s400/100_3100.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305013647725544914" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">To visit the "giants" it is recommended to go at low tide. Though you can still get to them at a higher tide, most will be underwater. It is also recommended to wear a good pair of boots...the area is very gooey and slippery.<img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia_OVHsl2adZyzPAyAEKUqSDKu4LoxSI7IKCBEEuM-OJicSpPW_HfkxqM_oK9qVtNFDoUlBIW8ib2NzF9HC8hWWZX0DEu3J-F_g5Uj2J-uGEOcVwloQ1gjBwJOmLyi5wP5E4S9F0087mVm/s400/100_3082.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303958139936960498" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNznIdhtontlGO6FDvSZQus2CGnyCXMl06-my1dGN2ZA-88f_PNign5vP0LVtchYGEPXktb98xDhqPgJwWPlO6ylxr0wZLPzsKveG_BeYB3ltUTQXl7f-jZ-xzHe7dKyAA54OpBd6WkiJ0/s320/DSC01237.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303962712950489458" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Brian, Tyler-Marie, and I took one full day and visited the five concretion complexes within the Cape Arago Headland...from the smallest marbles at Sunset Bay, to the "giants" of Fossil Point.</span> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiBTSusZI6CjmN4UlTU3EirBPvE8GpTkuocv_NmQFVxWrqor0VEg6dVdwJYDjSTTnGGWJMzHwLJa_yF5AuIFXy7OBQfH-ClK7lsAJQLkGFbdPfX8KaC1p1rWAZpS8oTn2szLBSMTorVmdY/s400/100_3052.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305012874917949570" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">In this photo, I would love to pry open this giant concretion and see what started the process. All I'd have to do is lift the top half off...</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigFKxOh8YW4GKdOGQcwL9zbEqZGblq5SA90Lm1WmkQKYJ9cAtpJNUI2W5sjQqaAS0pp8DAjV6Q27zzJeB-vcNeH1mxZ1qdnGq5uKT09h_uyHgMWHdkwv5-vcZ2G0I5Y1AC0P9SWPOdARRQ/s1600-h/MeAndRock.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigFKxOh8YW4GKdOGQcwL9zbEqZGblq5SA90Lm1WmkQKYJ9cAtpJNUI2W5sjQqaAS0pp8DAjV6Q27zzJeB-vcNeH1mxZ1qdnGq5uKT09h_uyHgMWHdkwv5-vcZ2G0I5Y1AC0P9SWPOdARRQ/s400/MeAndRock.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303959697902942578" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 275px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">I never get tired of visiting, exploring, investigating and collecting these unusual natural formations.</span> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoCohL9yltu7GpXKmp11pPBzLa5caar_k9szyny_b1WMD2DdyMZo_rnw2YdXV6QwvWfEr90ciBDrvpklt-NN3YZK2eGEUYW2bpH3-yBajCm-WBfZNWEJcvNx1vfZKgN-GYUIsczU9_vEo3/s1600-h/DSC01219.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoCohL9yltu7GpXKmp11pPBzLa5caar_k9szyny_b1WMD2DdyMZo_rnw2YdXV6QwvWfEr90ciBDrvpklt-NN3YZK2eGEUYW2bpH3-yBajCm-WBfZNWEJcvNx1vfZKgN-GYUIsczU9_vEo3/s400/DSC01219.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303959056413484002" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> Lakota and Tyler-Marie happily pose next to the largest "giant" concretion within the Fossil Point complex. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjESkfvLNtbh1rcQIkzoE4VDnXOtvDTjhFHkFac808OnD5iuKc64qQ3Td7h3PeOL5gwLZYKR2UCNKIxrGkSWgA1Xc0nlbOhr4i8wJOv-J0W-dr00eduX-tyLr9u1YbMDjM-0PlNeQ3JM5WJ/s1600-h/100_3096.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjESkfvLNtbh1rcQIkzoE4VDnXOtvDTjhFHkFac808OnD5iuKc64qQ3Td7h3PeOL5gwLZYKR2UCNKIxrGkSWgA1Xc0nlbOhr4i8wJOv-J0W-dr00eduX-tyLr9u1YbMDjM-0PlNeQ3JM5WJ/s400/100_3096.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303958574760144034" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnSj1oVYPyUBXYQHJBzRaZ-MtFS8Ns_nFbsM9Jn2ljQfMSg4Ltz9kzy-Xwql3_n08FxySwYhA04RAMbulkRQyTgJBDlDBHm84jrwB_R4f8-wr54MPUtRZXjy3MviXV49F9jWTJh3jGmjCF/s1600-h/100_3075.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnSj1oVYPyUBXYQHJBzRaZ-MtFS8Ns_nFbsM9Jn2ljQfMSg4Ltz9kzy-Xwql3_n08FxySwYhA04RAMbulkRQyTgJBDlDBHm84jrwB_R4f8-wr54MPUtRZXjy3MviXV49F9jWTJh3jGmjCF/s400/100_3075.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303958566985310402" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Though the Cape Arago Headland has the largest concentration of concretions, there are other Oregon locations that inhabit these phenomenal formations. From the Cape Arago Headland areas, they form in pockets in a south-southeast direction. Concretions reveal themselves along landslides, highway road cuts, logging roads, streams, rivers, and rock quarries.<img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2GXjT9CwkrJWtT2V3gWXBIXZSCDIizUgfpdgqmXUjFWoA150StjorgzZLElbMXPhlUISPM01vrSK8ztOfKmwef0NWjkhrjhyphenhyphenpr1ncgX1BxuadllEUg7f2Xoz6Ym9jptlzik7_keTnX70X/s400/DSC02778.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303959691687180290" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" />Concretions can even be found in masses at the 2000 foot level, shown here at the Upper Coquille River Falls. Concretions can also be found throughout Cape Blanco, and the Loon Lake area, east of Reedsport.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The following pictures are of some of my favorite concretions within my personal collection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">This shape of concretion is unofficially known as a "Tear-drop -or- Raindrop" </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The rock is approximately seven inches wide and about twelve inches tall, and VERY HEAVY! One of my favorites!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhspKeKugZtJE2-WDFMfXhNNx-zqHw-ZG32qj8qKkND3nlw9MmGCrAj4HsEcUB_J3oVrJJI8E-qjth5s7EI8_uuuXjtMsYngyvwzeR0aVVoO72fEyMxWRNOSMJri1Pg6C1bAeyAvYjP1sI4/s320/DSC02002.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309206447957996978" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 240px;" /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">A friend of mine recently called this duel concretion a "Faternity Doll". It is more commonly refered to as a "Peanut". Two concretions growing close together have merged into one. </span><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1SkxzUo06NDxUCqkyAlhYjGVxRrTGILv4_34C0RCcx_0S9siIyMUueUbkGVYl6PVt9GCZRzTFZT1lguzntDv-NZOvgaWWHNUsWzpazpp_6yxWzA2JcaGvzgmkBU7oVngPaEDpCcM0lZ0g/s320/DSC02006.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309206821813903250" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 240px;" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The following concretion is a great example of showing how concretions are not all round. The two inch round concretion in the center grew into a tree branch also forming into a concretion. I found this specimen within a landside near the Cape Arago Lighthouse. The branch concretion was broken in several spots. I collected as many pieces of the branch and glued them back together. It is such a great specimen. </span><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKO3AXV-AyLBhw2tGotriacMTil6WPL2hODT21OJlXUZdLa1iZklpowR0ezRc8L-oaDhuV4jjexRk0D9tpWZ1esXWyaI74YDNAcIzJfDiOvMKWzy3JcXoE7S5-b81MQqCTiJ-ENCncs1kI/s400/DSC02012.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309207086716888962" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 162px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Once a concretion is "successfully" broken open, it can reveal a hidden treasure. I found the following three inch concretion at Sunset Bay. It was a solid round rock at the time. I brought it home and placed it in the yard. Eventually, time and weather cracked the rock into four pieces, revealing the nucleus that started the concretion process...a mussel shell. </span><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw8gAMkTRTIXGCJZu0p2irzX4uEd0ft9-Ut24AN6JWJqfJK4VIjKJ7GI7Jv5mfOiML0K_Vs2alslkGfzfqlTBvyOFjaQKNvqd8hlJz80bKt-MVOdg0rOHqp3H1fYxeHTxPexFVRd7H36qg/s400/DSC02004.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309207900467947858" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The concretions throughout the Cape Arago Headland will mostly consist of a shell nucleus. If you're wanting to find a rare treasure of the nucleus being a crab, you'll want to venture into the mountains above Powers, Oregon. At around 2000 feet above sea level, oval shaped concretions, likely to house crabs, abound. The rock consistancy is softer and easier to break open.</span> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8tAgTqsqwbruZctBAcMA6pBYkxLpyYXgeWq93lt88xFYRB29nx3OH1c-Nt0uFpEjpZ14_aeq2CarNt6YNbuFXBApJ8ukyMCnw3OhmpNtMnjX9Aq1tyLU4d13xUMhwUIixDnu5Zgbzthvc/s400/DSC02009.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309207496110460594" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ2gwbPCHhZfv5U5PONSOTIInNIZjgwt01gI4qYhZqeYPEpTjMpbznkVLd4s9EvzUJ5RDWwSOuWn5I2mrzUaD7H1uqmovNSlgvBT6xFQAnNHojDZ0bdN1hfp9EHNW1hIngd2QKeYBLtvvy/s1600-h/CrabConcretion.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ2gwbPCHhZfv5U5PONSOTIInNIZjgwt01gI4qYhZqeYPEpTjMpbznkVLd4s9EvzUJ5RDWwSOuWn5I2mrzUaD7H1uqmovNSlgvBT6xFQAnNHojDZ0bdN1hfp9EHNW1hIngd2QKeYBLtvvy/s200/CrabConcretion.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309208209043662050" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a> </div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">This excellent example of a crab concretion was recently sold on Ebay for over $400 dollars. The owner stated it was collected in the mountains near Powers. (I did not buy it!)</span>Steven Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331388669815336221noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066618958117366133.post-54940799632001998132014-02-27T21:00:00.000-08:002015-01-18T21:54:43.051-08:00Concretion Rock Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I spent the last two days out at Shore Acres State Park, photographing the rock/concretion rock formations. I can spend hours at this location. Here are some of my favorite shots captured.</span></div>
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Steven Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331388669815336221noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066618958117366133.post-66868257624203824162014-02-05T23:08:00.000-08:002014-02-27T22:22:41.875-08:00Mystery Shipwreck - "FLASHBACK"<div align="center">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8EDByHU8V-jo3F_lfq1w-5786GV-0_63LAz3gOf6UE07U04vNew-wiJw_Hks6787D_YouMkP_3h8cQPMxJjEdwBf48ZWSoEGFr2fj2D62rKxDF_mlAWiBFBNCdsMMPvPNEOYeihE2OdtL/s1600-h/038a.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8EDByHU8V-jo3F_lfq1w-5786GV-0_63LAz3gOf6UE07U04vNew-wiJw_Hks6787D_YouMkP_3h8cQPMxJjEdwBf48ZWSoEGFr2fj2D62rKxDF_mlAWiBFBNCdsMMPvPNEOYeihE2OdtL/s400/038a.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299964810395942258" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span style="color: #000099; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 180%;">"Mystery Shipwreck" Revealed - February 2008</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">In February of 2008 a ship, once hidden beneath a 40 foot high dune, started to uncover from<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixPST5yalIHTx2WGutf1SIoBXjdoTurYVoGhpMBU-m3x5mVBhM465QwfSPGg9U5YSHSSetDToqo2Kbt3mvZ_Fb2B5g42zpep8E8NxRlS3Trf0VSh1KNVQrwiWI-QNDtkqtMdeLGHl7-go-/s1600-h/33_lg.jpg"></a> the heavy winter storms. The surf eroded away over 200 feet of <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBrdZPSACBbEHtI3fLF-c7JXDoWc7pK4bHnjY8M7GHaqGzqyZEQWt9ct9TD255aAqkmS2tpbYvehqCcNG45IMKLCsfL039rl-lvVbpXZCg6rqVdbapXBhJGkLA-4C-gCnwgIIwJpx2OuKT/s1600-h/33_lg.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBrdZPSACBbEHtI3fLF-c7JXDoWc7pK4bHnjY8M7GHaqGzqyZEQWt9ct9TD255aAqkmS2tpbYvehqCcNG45IMKLCsfL039rl-lvVbpXZCg6rqVdbapXBhJGkLA-4C-gCnwgIIwJpx2OuKT/s200/33_lg.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301059898538650722" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 130px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a>the fore-dune on the North Spit of the Coos River in Coos County. The wooden hulled ship was quickly labeled the “Mystery Shipwreck” or as the “Phantom Ship. Imaginations ran wild as to the identity of the newly <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqzf3a2oPtR88X8JMpienJ00XW525wVlwx95a3yGkiawQrA6isDcFwKQBNISiR74FX-pNMOjc8urW8aWRlPt2IqD-TYfEBP695BjMxscbWLSBgTQd53jr8U0qSEqvDyTf6Dj1pU1NwJeXT/s1600-h/shipwreck2_Large.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqzf3a2oPtR88X8JMpienJ00XW525wVlwx95a3yGkiawQrA6isDcFwKQBNISiR74FX-pNMOjc8urW8aWRlPt2IqD-TYfEBP695BjMxscbWLSBgTQd53jr8U0qSEqvDyTf6Dj1pU1NwJeXT/s200/shipwreck2_Large.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301060405516308242" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 134px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a>discovered historic treasure. "It must be a pirate ship", <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe6TMN9yFnWwSqLUL4n2WqBrnVwuzBeMZNEyFgli8TFqhrheqcT5lc2tGvVCzNT9Zm5CZPAF1EbPqsD88xT2VQVjaN788YSzpHr0lfFybhgPwClg4oI4tAJIUOndmrpgFBo7RXSiL7psp1/s1600-h/shipwreck2_Large.jpg"></a>most assumed. "The ship was very very old," other believed. "What is its name? And where did it come from? How long has it been here? What happened to it?" And of course, "where is the treasure of gold!" Everybody wanted to know. </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Sand was being pulled away and exposing more and more of the Mystery Ship quicker than questions about the ship were being answered. </span><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkwlVGWhVeoOIVJ4IRElDmZIlnXfBl4yMgbiVaN8rPdyktEO94-txLJc3RkwxySAfEupghxwI7bxrQ7CCeSI5td3kYCdX-I3QLfLJq2lW3Jq-a88hrKjlBFJ70qP3gTAvZoUgjJkSui7Nt/s400/059_59.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299960043616254962" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Although some of the answers were pretty obvious, solving this mystery would involve serious detective work. Undaunted, Archaeologists from the BLM's Coos Bay District, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department, and the Coos County Maritime Museum teamed up for the task. <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRj9p0L3WRKcSFOqrUXWxV5axOBJZHjBcCBKLt5aDL02JAM4bu-1stzh9OeNj5-biuVbOW1XCdTbwIDrUnXX1lmn2X2vNO7ulPHeuv5G_ivL_btjS3f-qAs-RMyYR0FGhPQdJ380cK3CjR/s400/DSC00011_011_002.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299961651691580194" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 270px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" />They spent several weeks combing through historical photographs and newspaper articles, determined to discover the story of what the locals had dubbed “… the mystery shipwreck.” After determining that the wreck resembled the schooner, local archaeologists delved into its history, determining where and when it went down. "The facts added up", said Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman Megan Harper.<img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Y7SsRzo1Qgh4feAmgmS7CsnUS2U6X3UK_v6kXy-A_bYVwTS_j09U6-RmoOIioWtt0HeUb4SXTTCY-d9N0AUMue9K7AVDPA9K0aFw0qOOplaCgiuTlKYr4KCLHgJhJFWUeeb9p22u_N4D/s400/Fred+H.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301060784418482242" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 169px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /> But it was a local man's photograph from 1947 that really convinced the agency, she said."It showed him and his brothers on the shipwreck with the words "George L." on the hull," Harper said. "Once we saw that, it was, 'Yep, that's the one."</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The “mystery shipwreck” was in fact the George L. Olson, a 1917 steam schooner.<img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcnBT4phEbw3piTB-ELNKID8s-2gEzvul5pMdoP_0h17VWdKHkxKAAK6hsi8zWyzcp5tOWtZCP3AQdJXKjFSZbPli3xn0dh08BObdYhnezG_mq3c20f9YVZPkuBBqPCMlxAhkci79tlsa4/s400/comparison_large.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299772374497220578" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 301px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /> “Once we put a current picture of the shipwreck next to a historical photograph of the Olson, we were able to say ‘Yup, that’s it,’” said Steve <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJvafN7Qccd9kLDwq1hKl1l96n6SQ-VmsgLP_yB_8AeupuISk2axx28-EH5Arsl9SnkuNSXijFi_o47eKiI1-zmq_EPbEvRJycXMXQbNdTP4osFaQ_4322Yt1zeMK3pZNGNnxpjeEwirDl/s1600-h/060_60.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJvafN7Qccd9kLDwq1hKl1l96n6SQ-VmsgLP_yB_8AeupuISk2axx28-EH5Arsl9SnkuNSXijFi_o47eKiI1-zmq_EPbEvRJycXMXQbNdTP4osFaQ_4322Yt1zeMK3pZNGNnxpjeEwirDl/s200/060_60.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299959375023449714" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a>Samuels, an archeologist with BLM’s Coos Bay District. “The position of the portholes, the unique bolt pattern on the bow … they are all an exact match.”
</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">With that, the ship’s story began to unfold...</span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">W.F. Stone Shipyards of Oakland, Calif., originally built the Olson for J.R. Hanify and Co. of San Francisco. The ship’s original name was the Ryder Hanify. At 223 feet long and nearly 44 feet wide, it was one of the largest <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-3AY6WuxdZLgYJQ8N4XqBrzGWv3pX2oCvqhEswzkoSyc2nKYUqjHTvRZAyLUOzZo55NmwpJbIhoweOervnuOIUXNb2BqoDmFQVLKmkew_czpwoYvZhmi7Z33Lrb_Rahf7pIwubX0BxJ7Y/s1600-h/042_42.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-3AY6WuxdZLgYJQ8N4XqBrzGWv3pX2oCvqhEswzkoSyc2nKYUqjHTvRZAyLUOzZo55NmwpJbIhoweOervnuOIUXNb2BqoDmFQVLKmkew_czpwoYvZhmi7Z33Lrb_Rahf7pIwubX0BxJ7Y/s200/042_42.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299959370131258034" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a>wooden ships the Stone shipyard had built to date. The Olson worked as a lumber carrier in the Pacific Northwest for more than 20 years, hauling 1.4 million board-feet of timber at a time. </span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The schooner sealed its fate on a seemingly peaceful day in June 1944 when it struck Coos Bay’s North Jetty and drifted aground on a nearby rock. Although the ship sustained no casualties, it was a total loss. </span>
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi40FD_-Es9LYKEBp3EiFntd7wfRn7Y9Yg0Itv-rxrWVCy5oE_OXc5ibq4TqsxJGRc6I8IT-yTs73fo_t5TV2lhpprY9YNAyNX-jvwx3TJrxZg0moP1dyFFSQxW6_uDPH3MJ6q_yNshK58f/s320/DSC09799-1.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299960863318816242" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Salvagers made use of the lumber cargo for the next several months, Five hundred thousand board feet of lumber recovered off of the ship was used to build the Baptist church in <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbwaBAVvIiR87xOwmsn8TqyqudWRrlBA6smWnTckwl5VDTWrxSJDKibwBkiUlSP7acaygPRFzDIC738rnV0VMWfiheWpglBZygQY3g0iyovJ8KdorBbdROEguDVyrpednyYydZm2VdDmXR/s1600-h/73fd784a.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbwaBAVvIiR87xOwmsn8TqyqudWRrlBA6smWnTckwl5VDTWrxSJDKibwBkiUlSP7acaygPRFzDIC738rnV0VMWfiheWpglBZygQY3g0iyovJ8KdorBbdROEguDVyrpednyYydZm2VdDmXR/s200/73fd784a.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299773552567465170" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a>Charleston, Oregon. After the ship sat abandoned in the mudflats within the Coos Bay, local officials ordered the "Olsen eyesore" to be removed and taken away. In December 1944, the hulk of the Olson was towed to sea and was cut adrift with the intention it would beach on the North Spit. </span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Buildup of the dune over the next several years buried the wreck.<img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpvk1zU1NOnfBS4jx4wrOcbxlqDQVplp-hF3YRHUx3RU1vxZ1RAiWoj0LjeCXmLnHLoZu-mf6GjTb5DPT4fSlyy_WMMbK0CSzVbO26HNTqN2TEhYwnGlofLc_zz0U3aMJ6M55XwvY1Xg7t/s400/40_lg.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301061265503255906" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 232px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Historical records indicate the ship surfaced for a short time in 1946 and 1960. The Olsen has been hidden from sight for over four decades, until 2008.</span>
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The reason behind the "mystery" of the ships identity comes from the fact that local news was not documented during that time frame. News worthy stories centered around what was going on with the war...World War II. Since there were no casualties, from the Olsen, the wreck was not considered big news, and the story fell through the cracks. <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl6FeF0au_vNOjy7xecZ9AGOVOfDHT8Gt8IPgm9by-40FEeLEdXK5uy7SBSLsFEXDOOaJQCBaPjekcJBi39RkHipZRl25te-UfsyXvina_BNzL9NI3CWd9klRDZYwAj5cd6iFlSGhQoa6_/s400/DSC09941_941_042.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299581532394074466" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The winter surf removed enough sand from the inside of the vessel that barrack lockers were revealed. <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhxzLzcNM3zSNPTvxNZRqny_CoNWD78r4WtGqnPueseCjgEnl5RYpAGAoBY9PaqM-D8HiF_wChozJR0ed_LyJtbtjOmIAuo4XRxtL4oCnm1efiKbYQh-UmgXx4tEBOPKu1faRphqvYYgxr/s320/DSC09964.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299960869538071154" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /> Just imagine what life was like then. Was being a crewman on the Olsen a decent job? Did the owner of the locker have pictures of his sweetheart posted within? How shiny were his shoes? Were they required to keep their bed and room set to military standards? </span>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Well over 15,000 people visited the shipwreck since it (re)appeared during the winter of 2008. </span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">It was once believed that the remainder of the ship was still buried within the fore dune. Evidence later revealed there was no more ship to become exposed. The front bow section of the George L. Olsen was the only piece of the ship. Where was the rest? Did the ship break apart and the majority of it sink before coming ashore? In a sense, the Olsen is still the "Mystery Shipwreck". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The big freighter was on her way to pick up cargo at Coos Bay when it ended up hard aground in the surf on the Coos Bay North Spit. It leaked oil and resisted all attempts to pull it back into deep water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sound familiar?</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It wasn't the New Carissa. It was the Sujameco, and unlike the New Carissa, what's left of the Sujameco remains on the beach today, nearly 71 years later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This time of year, winter waves strip the sand from Horsfall Beach to expose the rusting remains of the 324-foot cargo ship that ran ashore March 1, 1929.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's just up the beach a few miles from where the New Carissa beached on the spit under eerily similar circumstances on Feb. 4, 1999.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By now the saga of the New Carissa remains etched in the minds of Northwesterners. It was big news. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"<em>The Sujameco was front page news too</em>," said Ann Koppy of the Coos County Historical Society Museum. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But now hardly anyone alive has heard of it, said Koppy, who believes there should at least be a sign at Horsfall Beach in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area to tell people about the wreck. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bound from San Francisco to Coos Bay with a crew of 32 to load fir for the East Coast, she ran aground headfirst, under full power, in heavy fog about 9 am eight miles north of the bar. Wave action quickly turned her to broadside.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the crew in no immediate danger, they remained aboard. Despite weeks of effort to move her from the beach and refloat her, all failed.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ultimatly, the wreck was sold for $150,000 to the Pacific Salvage Company which removed engine, boilers, and all else of value...and left the hull to time and tide, which years later was cut up for scrap metal during World War II to aid the war efforts.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Not much remains of the Sujameco, just pieces of the metal hull, a few cross members, and the rudder canted slightly seaward. Hundreds of rivets still hold the remaining pieces together.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Waves rush back and forth over the bones of the exposed wreck. Some fuel may remain buried beneath the wet sand. It is said a rainbow sheen can be seen around an exposed pipe.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">High seas and low tides each winter help to expose portions of the shipwreck; but conditions this winter have exposed the shipwreck from bow to stern- allowing visitors, including myself, to catch the best views in years.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Sujameco is just one of many ship wreck that still litter the shores off Coos Bay. At a low tide, I was able to walk amungst the wreck and capture some "history".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Parts or all of the remains of the Sujameco can be seen every winter out on Horsfall Beach just north of Coos Bay, Oregon.</span></div>
Steven Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331388669815336221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066618958117366133.post-23565549544162040602014-02-04T09:00:00.000-08:002018-06-05T01:06:28.221-07:00The New Carissa Story ~ "Reading Rainbow Style"<div style="border: currentColor; clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">"The Ship That Refused To Die"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Once upon a time...twelve years this day, the story began.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A signed copy of the children's book, <i><u><span style="color: #660000;">NEW CARISSA~The Ship That Refused To Die</span></u></i> ,can be purchased for only $20 plus shipping, by emailing me direct at:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">"Where the Cascades remain unknown"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Located near the Santiam Pass summit in the Oregon Cascades, Sand Mountain is the highest point (5460’) in the Sand Mountain Volcanic Alignment.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">"Beauty is always visible, but it is up to us to see it."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The Volcanic Alignment, which consists of more than 20 unknown cinder cones and miles of lava flows, represents some of Oregon’s most recent volcanic activity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Sand Mountain Alignment volcanic activity is responsible for some of Oregon's most dramatic Cascade scenery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lava flows from Sand Mountain dammed the headwaters of the McKenzie River to form Clear Lake, drowning a forest well preserved by the icy cold waters of the lake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pyroclastic flows, from the Sand Mountain Volcanic Alignment, filled the high Cascade valley's creating a thick gradually sloping coarse rocky volcanic plain which acts as a giant filter for rain and snowmelt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rain and snow melt slowly moves underground through this rocky coarse rock until it emerges in a giant, cold spring in Clear Lake to the west.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is said that for the water to journey from the surface near the Sand Mountain Alignment landscape to the Great Spring, it can take anywhere from 2 to 10 years to filter from one end to the other. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Such a time frame is hard for me to comprehend.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To help understand this phenomenon, I contacted Bart Wills, a geologist with the Deschutes National Forest. He explained that the more dissolved minerals the water picks up while filtering under ground can determine the time-frame in which the water has taken to get from a point (A) to a point (B).</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(There is a more complicated scientific answer, but for the sake of this blog, I am able to accept the simple mineral content explanation from Bart Wills.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #783f04;">I then asked Mr. Wills, "<em>So if record rains fell on Sand Mountain today, will it take at least two years for the water to "flood" out of the Great Spring?"</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Again, Mr. Wills answer, I liked. He explained that the law of gravity does not apply to water when underground. Record rains can fall and the excess water will filter through and fill aquifers’, but a rush of water is not likely to happen at the springs exit, much like you cannot force more water through a straw than what the straw can handle. The "flooded" aquifer will find additional exits through cracks in the earth and the excess water will exit from "seasonal" springs throughout the region.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This filtered process is the reason why the upper waters of the McKenzie River flows consistant all year round. The McKenzie River's origin is from this cold spring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The drowned forest in Clear Lake provides ideal material from which to determine the age of the Alignment through carbon dating. It is believed that the Sand Mountain cinder volcanoes date back to approximately 2,500 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Volcanic activity began at the north end of the Alignment and spread south along a fissure. Saywer’s Ice Cave is located in a Sand Mountain lava flow at the north end of the Alignment, and Sahalie Falls tumbles over one of the southernmost flows (newest lavas).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While these two natural landmarks, <em>the Saywer's Ice Caves and Sahalie Falls</em>, of the Alignment are well-known due to there proximity to Highway 126, ironically, the cinder cones which created them are far less known.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today, the Sand Mountain Cinder Cones are protected as a nature preserve.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The only man-made disturbance on the cone sits atop the highest point on the south cone. There you'll find the Sand Mountain (fire) Lookout Watch Tower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Sand Mountain Society (SMS) was formed in 1987 by a group of concerned citizens who felt that this off-road recreation was inappropriate for, and destructive to the terrain of the Sand Mountain Volcanic Alignment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forest Service officials agreed, and they designated Sand Mountain a Geologic Special Interest Area with attendant protections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Sand Mountain Lookout was restored to the summit of South Sand Mountain in 1989 after a 20-year absence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The model partnership between the Sand Mountain Society and the Willamette National Forest is still protecting the area today while offering interpretive services to the public.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Together the Sand Mountain Society, (SMS) and the Forest Service relocated an abandoned fire lookout from Whisky Peak in southern Oregon, which was kindly donated by the Rogue River National Forest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The lookout replica watches over the Geological Special Interest Area. This unusual volcanic phenomenon can be easily viewed from the summit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of the most stunning views of the Central Oregon Cascade volcanoes, from Mt. Hood to the north to Diamond Peak to the south, can be seen from the Sand Mountain Fire Lookout Tower.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the photo above, the well known 10,497 foot Mount Jefferson rules the land to the north, and the not so well known 6,229 foot Maxwell Butte rises in the distance...and the north cone of Sand Mountain is shadowed in the foreground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The mysterious 7,844 foot Three Finger Jack volcanic peak dominates the skyline to the northeast.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #783f04;">The grey colored forest is the remains of the 2003 B&B forest fire.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A grand view from Sand Mountain, of 7,794 foot Mount Washington rises sharply to the East.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the crater rim of Sand Mountain, the ever popular 10K+ Three Sisters looms in the distant southeast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other geologic features visible from the Sand Mountain summit include, but are not limited too, the</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> barren Black Sand Flats, or "Black Sand Lake".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found this unique feature to be very mysterious. An area the size of a football field lay barren without plant life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> As if there was a distinguishable shoreline, the "Black Lake" was once an ATV's dream sand pit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now apart of the protected lands, the "Black Lake" has been restored to its former mysterious oddity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the photo below, the popular winter ski resort of 5,702 foot Hoodoo Butte looms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the photo below, the rare 5,523 foot Hayrick Butte is visible just south of Hoodoo Butte.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hayrick Butte is a tuya volcano rising 5,523 above sea level.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A tuya is a type of subglacial volcano, formed when lava erupts underneath an overlying glacier or ice sheet and then melts through to the surface and pools, producing the flat plateau on top with near-vertical walls along the ice-contact margin as the lava cools and hardens. Hayrick Butte is one of the most perfectly formed examples of a tuya volcano in the contiguous United States, with a nearly-flat triangular plateau about 0.5 miles across and steep walls rising about 700 ft above the plain below. Tuya volcanoes are only found in Iceland, British Columbia, the Antarctic Peninsula, and the Santiam Pass region in Oregon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Due east of Sand Mountain you'll see in the distance, the 6,436 foot Black Butte. </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">(Hayrick Butte is in the left part of the photo.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Belknap Crater, the Husband, and Todd Butte are also nicely viewed in the south from Sand Mountain.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Western White Pine ~ <em>Pinus monticola</em>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Alignment Cones offer beautiful volcanic slopes with a remarkable array of flora which includes wildflowers. One very little delicate flower growing all over on Sand Mountain in July is the <em>Calyptridium umbellatum</em>, or commonly known as the Pussy-Paw.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Pussy-Paw flower consist of a pink cluster of densely packed flowers on prostrate stems resembling an upturned pads of a cat's foot. <span style="color: #990000;"> (I personally didn't see the resemblance to a cat's foot, but it must be true.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pussy-Paws grow in sandy areas, an appropriate flower to grow on Sand Mountain. This low growing plant raises its flower stems each morning and lowers them in the evening, but why it does this is a mystery. <span style="color: #073763;"><em>Maybe, by the end of the day the flower stem get's tired and its energy is weak by the end of the day?</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some other wildflowers I found on Sand Mountain included:</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJO0w-U3jzAnLXsln8VcWhle-5F-VlGkJ9ztojm30nh-6nvW0Vl6gWF-6irlHvCfYLnicvlHrxeF2lHIBmHMFJ4Sfo0rRCAgLF9IQfAmgzJ6rhnfzVn-UAwYwF9GcADefRm-IvItwVE-Ua/s1600/DSC01531.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJO0w-U3jzAnLXsln8VcWhle-5F-VlGkJ9ztojm30nh-6nvW0Vl6gWF-6irlHvCfYLnicvlHrxeF2lHIBmHMFJ4Sfo0rRCAgLF9IQfAmgzJ6rhnfzVn-UAwYwF9GcADefRm-IvItwVE-Ua/s400/DSC01531.jpg" height="300" hw="true" width="400" /></a><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Desert Parsley ~ <em>Lomatium hallii</em>)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Shrubby penstemon ~ <em>Penstemon fruticosus</em>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not sure what this little leafed plant is?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Miniature lupine ~ <em>Lupinus bicolor</em>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Though Sand Mountain has a nice collection of unique wildflowers, If a mascot had to be chosen, the Sand Mountain mascot would definately go to, hands-down, to the <span style="color: #660000;">Pygmy Short-horned lizards, <em>Phrynosoma Tapaja douglasii</em></span>, also referred to as a horny toad or horned frog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I learned that the summit of Sand Mountain is the furthest location west of the Cascade crest to find them. This is a sub-species endemic to the Northwest region, differing slightly from Horned lizards in the desert Southwest, but they share a significant trait with their relatives: they like it dry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abundant in the more arid expanses east of the Cascade Mountains, the western slopes are generally too timbered, overgrown and wet. But the windswept summits of these somewhat unlikely cinder cones are considered sub-alpine, xeric landscapes, and therefore suitable to their habitat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their survival story is quite unique but simple...instead of fleeing or taking "flight" in the presence of danger, their instinct is to stay motionless and blend in with their surroundings. It’s true, it is very hard to distinguish them from the cinder gravels on the summit, until they move. If it wasn't for the Lookout Tower-man on duty, Tim, a professor from Portland, I wouldn't have even known the little camoflagued creatures were even there. Once discovered, it was easy to get close enough and photograph one because it instinctly remained motionless upon my approach to it. Though Sand Mountain has an abundant little horned lizards, I saw only three while on the summit.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">I have travelled the Santiam Highway many times, but not until recent have I actually stopped to "smell the roses" along the way.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Little did I know such a unique, bizzare, fascinating and mysterious landscape existed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Sand Mountain Alignment Geological Interest Area, and surrounding lands provides an incredible year round recreational experience. There is something there for everybody.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My dog Pynekone and I spent the entire day exploring the "simple" beauty found in and around the Sand Mountain Alignment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't think there is any other location where in one day you can explore powerful waterfalls, A sunken forest, an ice cave, miles of lava fields, a "Black Lake", countless cinder buttes, a Tyru volcano, dramatic Cascade peak vistas', delecate wildflowers, a lookout tower, a pygmy lizard, a ski resort, an alpine lake or two, and the historic Santiam Wagon Road.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSnmUCdzES0NcoOTiL87P9X1n9DXPgJTeB_Bay1W-GJvpZ_ls_moNGp6vMsTCO5jKHL0M4z4rjpfnEPnCtRu6rJvwjrtn9DjafoBPirUH-7PqDwHtPAVVRXTbSlhdBHrWG0cWbCOKK_1E/s1600/DC-Pyne.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSnmUCdzES0NcoOTiL87P9X1n9DXPgJTeB_Bay1W-GJvpZ_ls_moNGp6vMsTCO5jKHL0M4z4rjpfnEPnCtRu6rJvwjrtn9DjafoBPirUH-7PqDwHtPAVVRXTbSlhdBHrWG0cWbCOKK_1E/s400/DC-Pyne.jpg" height="267" hw="true" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pynekone enjoyed the constant cool breeze on the top of Sand Mountain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">In October 2009, my mother and I, and the four dogs, began a venture that would end up taking us on a journey throughout the western half of the state of Oregon. Our goal was to visit all of Oregon's covered bridges. We accomplished this goal in six weekend day trips. I have divided the covered bridges into nine regions.</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Here is what we discovered in the</span></div>
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Two crossed Howe truss members on each chord strengthen the bridge; a rarity in short covered bridges. An additional aspect of the bridge is the use of large-framed windows on both sides of the structure, maximizing the illumination of the bridge interior.</div>
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In late 1981, a plan was developed to make a park at the bridge and use the old wooden structure as a covered picnic site. The Myrtle Point Lions Club adopted the bridge as a major project. We never did stop here to eat lunch. The bridge park was a central "rest-stop" for the dogs to get out of the car and stretch their legs.</div>
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To get there, from Roseburg travel west on Highway 42 approximately 31 miles to Remote, or 17 miles east from Myrtle Point. Sandy Creek Bridge is on the north side of Highway 42, 1/4 mile west of the Remote exit. </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">World Guide Number: 37-20-04</span><br />
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The Wildcat Covered Bridge was built in 1925.</div>
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The Wildcat Bridge is located on a small winding road a short distance from Highway 126.</div>
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From the bridge site where Wildcat Creek flows into the Siuslaw River, Stagecoach Road hugs the hillside until it drops into the narrow plain in the small town of Swisshome. Stagecoach Road was the original road to the coast, but was bypassed after the Linslaw Tunnel and Mapleton Bridge were built in the 1930s.</div>
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The 75 foot Howe truss span includes a long narrow window opening on the west side to provide a view for oncoming traffic.</div>
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To get there, travel 33 miles west of Eugene or 27 miles east of Florence on Oregon Highway 126 to Whitaker Creek /Clay Creek Recreation Area turnoff. Exit the highway on the south side and follow the road back under the highway and railroad tracks (north) a short distance to the bridge. </div>
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World Guide Number: 37-20-06</div>
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The Nelson Mountain Covered Bridge was built in 1928 for the modest price of $3,155</div>
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The bridge has a Howe type truss which is 105 feet long, crossing Lake Creek. The bridge also goes by the name of Lake Creek Covered Bridge.</div>
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To get there, from Eugene take Highway 99 north to Highway 36. Travel west on Highway 36 approximately 38 miles to Nelson Mountain Road. Alternately, travel north from Mapleton on Highway 36. The Nelson Mountain Road turnoff is located near milepost 17. Turn south on Nelson Mountain Road to the bridge.</div>
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The Deadwood Covered Bridge was built in 1932.</div>
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Once considered one of Oregon's most dilapidated covered bridges, the Deadwood Bridge is now among the state's finest refurbished roofed spans. The bridge has a Howe truss design and crosses 105 feet over Deadwood Creek.</div>
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The architectural elements of Deadwood Bridge are quite unique. The flooring was installed on a slant so that traffic rounding the corner onto the bridge would travel more safely. Other elements include false end beams, semi-elliptical portal arches with trim, and large openings along the west elevation.<br />
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To get there from Eugene, travel west to Mapleton on Highway 126. Continue northeast on Highway 36 through Swisshome 12 miles to Deadwood (or southwest from Junction City). Turn north on Lower Deadwood Road. Follow Lower Deadwood Road approximately 5 miles and turn right on Deadwood Loop Road. Deadwood Creek is on Deadwood Loop Road at Mile Point 0.3<br />
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The North Fork Yachats Covered Bridge was built in 1938 with the Queenpost truss design and spans 42 feet across the North Fork of the Yachats River.</div>
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Located just seven miles from the salt water of the Pacific Ocean, this trim little bridge is the closest to the ocean of all the Oregon covered bridges.</div>
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The rustic covered bridge cost the county only $1,500.</div>
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The North Fork Yachats Covered Bridge is one of the few Oregon bridges built with the Queenpost truss, and the wood planked flooring is also a unique feature to the bridge. </div>
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This "storybook" bridge is one of the most isolated bridges to visit, even though it is only 8.5 miles off of the tourist Highway 101. It is also one of the most photogenic, and one of my favorites.</div>
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The North Fork Yachats Covered Bridge was actually the first bridge my mother and I visited...the year before, when we were out-and-about exploring rivers.<br />
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It was fun to return to the Yachats Covered Bridge, our covered bridge exploration.<br />
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To get there from the coastal town of Yachats on Hwy 101, travel approximately 7 miles east on Yachats River Road to North Yachats River Road. At the intersection turn north, (left), and travel approximately 1.5 miles up the dirt road.<br />
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World Guide Number: 37-21-11</div>
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The Fisher Covered Bridge was built in 1927. The bridge is also known as the Fisher School covered bridge and the Five Rivers covered bridge.</div>
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The bridge was built with the Howe truss design and is 72 feet long.</div>
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The Fisher Bridge is located in the rugged foothills of Lincoln County. The structure spans Five Rivers, so named because of the five streams of Alder Creek, Cougar Creek, Buck Creek, Crab Creek and Cherry Creek which make up the stream.</div>
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According to a 1942 Lincoln County bridge report, the Fisher Bridge was built in 1927 at a cost of $1,800. The dispute in the date of construction may have been due to the renovation of the span in 1927. Other county records show the cost to build the span in 1919 was $2,500.</div>
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Pynekone enjoyed a chance to get out of the car.</div>
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A unique feature to the Fisher Bridge is that the bridge is painted red. Most Oregon covered bridges are all white, but the covered bridges remaining in Lincoln County are all exclusively painted red. When I asked the official's for the reason behind the red paint over the traditional white, no one knew, nor did they know why the bridges are painted white.</div>
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My educated guess for the red paint would be that the white paint doesn't hold up as well in the damp, rainy, foggy, tree shaded areas of Lincoln County, and a red bridge would show less dirt. I am just guessing though. And, a white bridge is likely due to the cost of paint. White was and still is cheaper.</div>
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A picnic "tail-gate" lunch was a common occurrence on our bridge tour for my mom and me...and dogs. This of course was the dog's favorite part of the trip.</div>
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Mom and Mocha pose nicely with the Fisher Covered Bridge positioned in the background.</div>
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To get there from Interstate 5, take the Corvallis exit (228) west 38 miles through Philomath on US 20. Follow Highway 34 southwest through Alsea and continue 20 miles west to the Five Rivers-Fisher Road (Forest Service Road 141). From Waldport, travel 20 mile west on Hwy 34 to the Five Rivers-Fisher Road. From there, turn south at the fork at Siletz Road. Continue left past Buck Creek Road about one mile to the bridge.</div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">World Guide Number: 37-21-03</span></div>
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The Chitwood Covered Bridge spans 96 feet across the Yaquina River, and was built in 1926 with the Howe truss design.</div>
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Not much activity occurs at Chitwood anymore. Several stores, a post office, a telephone office, and several houses once surrounded the Chitwood Bridge. The few houses that remain and the warn down store across the river are a bleak reminder of the vitality the community once had.</div>
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Logging in the area once boomed enough to support not only the stores, but also contributed to rowdy times in the Chitwood Dance Hall. In the early 1900s Chitwood became an important rail stop for the steam locomotives from Yaquina to Corvallis, as the town was where the engines took on water and fuel, as well as passengers and freight.</div>
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With the fast pace world of today, the Chitwood Bridge will become even more bleak and isolated when the Hwy 20 bypass is completed. Only those who seek out the bridge will find it now.</div>
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Mom and Mocha enjoying another photo opportunity.</div>
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To get there from Interstate 5, take the Corvallis exit (228) west 38 miles through Philomath on US 20. The bridge adjoins Highway 20 near milepost 17. Alternately, travel east from Newport on Highway 20, 17 miles to Chitwood.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Drift Creek Covered Bridge</span></div>
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World Guide Number: 37-21-14</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Lincoln County</span></div>
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The Drift Creek Bridge has a long history. Originally built south of Lincoln City only 1.5 miles from the coast, the bridge was considered the oldest remaining covered bridge, and the closest to the ocean, in Oregon.</div>
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The bridge was built in 1914 with the Howe truss design. The bridge once span 66 feet across Drift Creek, but today, the historic bridge crosses 66 feet across Bear Creek, about 8 miles to the northeast of it original location.</div>
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The span once served traffic on a main north-south route along the Oregon coast. New roads and highways were built later, thus diverting most of the traffic from the now remote site.</div>
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After the bridge was bypassed with a concrete span in the mid-1960s, Lincoln County passed an ordinance preserving the wooden structure as an historical memorial to the Lincoln County pioneers.</div>
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However, in early 1988, Lincoln County officials had to close the Drift Creek Bridge to pedestrian traffic due to the deteriorating condition of the span. Excessive rot and insect damage had weakened the bridge to a dangerous level. Steel beams were installed inside the bridge to keep it from falling into the water.</div>
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The area around the bridge was excavated in an effort to isolate the structure and limit access. This bridge was dismantled in late 1997. The County gave the timbers to the Sweitz family who owned land only eight miles to the north of the original site.</div>
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Laura and Kerry Sweitz had envisioned the house being rebuilt over their concrete bridge that provides access to their property across Bear Creek. In the pioneer spirit that this bridge represents and through hardship and strife, their monumental efforts resulted in the resurrection of the bridge which now stands in a small, beautiful park-like setting.</div>
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Some of the treasures within their little park include;</div>
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a covered bridge bird feeder...</div>
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...named the "Red Bridge Cafe."</div>
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We also discovered some old pioneer farm equipment appropriately painted "covered bridge" red.</div>
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In the park, there is a picnic table and a few benches, and a plaque commemorating the historic bridge.</div>
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The Sweitz family mail box out front is also designed as a traditional Lincoln County colored covered bridge.</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">In the spirit of all the hard work the Sweitz family accomplished in preserving a national historic treasure, I dedicate this blog on the Oregon Coast Covered Bridges to your family.</span></div>
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To get there from Lincoln City, head north on Hwy. 101 to Hwy. 18. Travel east on Hwy. 18 to milepost 3.96. Turn right on Bear Creek Road and travel 0.9 mile. The bridge is located on the left.</div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">In October 2009, my mother and I, and the four dogs, began a venture that would end up taking us on a journey throughout the western half of the state of Oregon. Our goal was to visit all of Oregon's covered bridges. We accomplished this goal in six weekend day trips. I have divided the covered bridges into nine regions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Here is what we discovered in the</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">CASCADE FOOTHILLS REGION.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">World Guide Number: 37-22-09</span></div>
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The Short Covered Bridge was built in 1945 with the Howe truss design and spans 105 feet across the South Fork of the Santiam River.</div>
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The bridge is the sole survivor of the covered bridges, which crossed the South Fork of the Santiam River and is one of the few remaining in the county to have a wooden shingle roof.</div>
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The span is Linn County's most eastern covered bridge. When the wooden-housed structure was built, the bridge was known more commonly as the Whiskey Butte Covered Bridge, named after the nearby Whiskey Butte, which was along the historic Santiam Wagon Road.</div>
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The bridge was renamed after a long-time area resident, Gordon Short.</div>
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The Short Covered Bridge is an excellent example of the open truss window design.</div>
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Ducks, deer and other animals in the vicinity of the bridge surprise quite often visitors. During the summer, fishermen on and under the bridge cast lines into the cool waters of the South Santiam River.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh54Bg2VKb4x1lVHpMJCZ6MTFZJwigwEfYJlyS6k7GSs5sJ9-ZEH5yXt_J06BJKTgJtLU6Q4eIGVHaxzInKoSX8GpoFR2cDzbkaLm20hz2nzMC8M5SoVxG3i8sfDwRkLC6VMfWtyjNKwQd1/s1600-h/103_2391.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh54Bg2VKb4x1lVHpMJCZ6MTFZJwigwEfYJlyS6k7GSs5sJ9-ZEH5yXt_J06BJKTgJtLU6Q4eIGVHaxzInKoSX8GpoFR2cDzbkaLm20hz2nzMC8M5SoVxG3i8sfDwRkLC6VMfWtyjNKwQd1/s400/103_2391.jpg" height="400" vt="true" width="300" /></a></div>
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When we visited the bridge we were frightened by the alarming sound of several dogs howling loud in unison. At first we didn't where the hair-raising sound was coming from. We quickly retreated back to the car. Once back in the car, we realized a private home across the bridge housed several large wolf-like dogs. The presence of our four dogs alerted the pack.</div>
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Pynekone didn't care of the crazed pack across the river...he was fine just as long as he didn't have to get his feet wet.</div>
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To get there from Interstate 5, take the Albany exit, US Route 20 (exit 233) southeast through Lebanon and Sweet Home for 37 miles to Cascadia. West of the city limits of Cascadia, turn left at High Deck Road.</div>
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The Goodpasture Bridge was built in 1938 with the Howe truss design and spans 165 feet across the McKenzie River.</div>
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The covered bridge is considered to some as being one of the most beautiful and most photographed covered bridges in the state.</div>
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Designed by the State Highway Department and built by Lane County, the classical and timeless architecture of this bridge is accentuated by Gothic style windows on both sides of the structure.</div>
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At 165 feet, the span is the second longest existing covered bridge in Oregon.<br />
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Lane County spent $13,154 constructing the Goodpasture Bridge and is still reaping the benefits of a good investment.<br />
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To get there from Springfield, travel east on the McKenzie River Highway (Oregon Highway 126) for about 25.5 miles. Goodpasture Bridge is on Goodpasture County Road at Highway 126 just east of Vida.</div>
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The Belknap Bridge occupies a site in which a covered bridge has been in continuous use since 1890. The neighboring community recognized the importance of a river crossing at that location and the town adopted the name "McKenzie Bridge." This bridge was the very difficult to photograph. Private property doesn't allow you to get to the river to get a side view, and the area is very forested on both sides.</div>
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The third bridge at this site was destroyed in the famous 1964 flood.</div>
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The current Belknap Covered Bridge was built in 1966 with the Howe truss design and spans 120 feet across the McKenzie River.</div>
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The McKenzie River is one of the nation's most popular rivers to float down. The above photo was taken through a window on the covered bridge.</div>
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The Belknap Covered Bridge is the furthest east of all Oregon "historic" Covered Bridges.<br />
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To get there from Springfield, take Highway 126 east approximately 46 miles heading towards the community of McKenzie Bridge. One mile west of the small town of Rainbow, turn south on McKenzie River Drive. Follow McKenzie River Drive for about 0.8 miles to King Road West.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Office Covered Bridge was built in 1944 with the Howe truss design and spans 180 feet across the North Fork of the Middle Fork of the Willamette River.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The bridge was built by the Westfir Lumber Company, the once site of a mill at the town of Westfir. The wooden span was constructed strong for logging trucks and the bridge connected a lumber mill and its offices; hence its name.</span></div>
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The Office Covered Bridge is the longest existing covered bridge in Oregon. It is also painted the rare red, unique to Oregon's covered bridges.</div>
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The company-owned town, including the bridge, were sold to an investment company in 1977. In the early 1980s the mill burned and the bridge was closed to traffic.</div>
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In 1992 the bridge became the property of Lane County through tax foreclosure. Extensive repair work in 1992 stabilized the bridge condition, and in 2002, a new roof was added.</div>
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A distinctive feature of the span is the covered walkway separate from the roadway. This features makes the Office Covered Bridge the only Oregon covered bridge that is both a traffic and pedestrian structure.<br />
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Because the bridge was built for carrying loaded log trucks, the truss members are gigantic with multiple tension rods and compound chord members. The house has horizontal shiplap siding.<br />
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Today the bridge and old mill grounds across the river are protected as a "city rest area" park.<br />
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To get there from Interstate 5, take Highway 58 east towards Oakridge. Just before entering Oakridge, near milepost 31, turn west onto Westridge Ave. Continue to Westfir on County Road 6128. Travel about 2.5 miles to the mill site, community and bridge.</div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">East of the Cascades lies the Rock O' the Range Covered Bridge. I am not including this bridge as an actual historic truss built covered bridge. But if you want to go see it, Google it at</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">Rock O' The Range Covered Bridge.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">West of the Cascades in Portland lies the other covered bridge not included in our travels.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">To see it, Google it at</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">Cedar Crossing Covered Bridge.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">In October 2009, my mother and I, and the four dogs, began a venture that would end up taking us on a journey throughout the western half of the state of Oregon. Our goal was to visit all of Oregon's covered bridges. We accomplished this goal in six weekend day trips. I have divided the covered bridges into nine regions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Cottage Grove is known as the "Covered Bridge Capital of Oregon". Six of the covered bridges in Lane County are located in or around the City. Though they claim to be the "Capital," I honestly believe the title should have gone to Scio.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">To justify this statement, here are the facts. O</span><span style="color: #660000;">f the six covered bridges in the Cottage Grove area, only two are driveable by car, and only one of the two is still a part of the commuting road system, and only five are historically built bridges. In Scio region, you can drive over five of the Scio's five covered bridges, and all five are still a part of the commuting road system, and all are built historically. Though Cottage Grove has a diverse collection of covered bridge, my vote for Oregon Covered Bridge Capital still goes to Scio.</span></div>
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The Centennial Covered Bridge was built in 1987 for Cottage Grove's 100th birthday Centennial and spans 84 feet across the Coast Fork Willamette River. At the dedication ceremony a time capsule was encased in the entrance of the bridge containing items from the 1980s.</div>
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The Centennial Covered Bridge is a 3/8 scale model of the Chambers Covered Bridge, which is located only a few hundred feet away. The pedestrian and bike bridge was built from the remains of two previous Lane County covered bridges, (Meadows, and Brumbaugh Bridges) which had been dismantled in 1979.</div>
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The primarily volunteer effort to build the bridge proved to be a success.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">To get to the Centennial Covered Bridge, exit I-5 at Cottage Grove. The bridge is located at the corner of Main Street and River Road in downtown Cottage Grove.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">The Covered Bridge Society of Oregon recognizes the Centennial Pedestrian Covered Bridge as being one of Oregon's 51 historic bridges, due to it being created from the wood of two historic covered bridges.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">The Society does not recognize three other pedestrian covered bridges in Oregon that have played a role in the historic significance to the preservation of Oregon's covered bridges...the Dahlenburg and Whittmore replica bridges in Sweet Home, and the Canyonville Pedestrian bridge in Canyonville.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The current Chambers Railroad Covered Bridge was built in 1936 using the Howe truss design and spans 78 feet across the Coast Fork of the Willamette River.</span></div>
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The Chambers Bridge is the last covered railroad bridge in Oregon, and the last railroad bridge west of the Mississippi River. It was built by the Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railroad for a logging spur, which brought logs to the Frank Chambers Mill in Cottage Grove. The bridge has two dates of creation, 1925 and 1936. The 1936 date is likely a time when the bridge was either referbished or replaced. The actual use for the bridge was short, as the sawmill burned in 1943 and rail traffic no longer crossed the bridge.</div>
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Built to accommodate steam engines pulling logging trains, the sides of the Chambers Bridge reach much higher than highway covered spans and give the bridge an appearance of being much longer than its actual length.</div>
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Although the bridge trusses are now exposed, at one time the siding completely enclosed the structure to afford maximum protection for the timbers. In the typical construction for railroad spans, truss members of Herculean proportions were necessary to support the moving weight of rail payloads.</div>
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Abandoned for years, the bridge has been a frequent target of arsonists, as the charred timbers attest. <span style="color: #7f6000;">Fortunately, the bridge has not succumbed to fire...yet!</span></div>
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The bridge was inspected under the 1993-95 Covered Bridge Program. The bottom chords show extensive decay, and in some places three of the four members are rotted. In several places all three members of the floor beams are rotted. Corbels are decayed and crushed, which makes the house lean as much as 12 inches to the upstream side.</div>
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It is sad to think that the last remaining railroad covered bridge in Oregon, and the last west of the Mississippi, is on a fast road to destruction.</div>
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COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. February 17, 2010</div>
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The race is on to save the historic Chambers Railroad Bridge. But will the trestle tumble first?</div>
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The Cottage Grove City Council passed an emergency resolution Tuesday night to speed up removal of the long-neglected 125-year-old span over the Willamette River. But the plan must first be approved by state and federal regulators.</div>
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Last year, Cottage Grove received a $1.3 million grant from the National Historic Covered Bridge Preservation Program. Meyers said city officials originally planned to remove the bridge last summer but pushed back the timeline a year because of red tape.</div>
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Meyers said the city wants to begin removing the bridge as early as next week. The plan is then to rebuild the bridge as a tourist destination, with better access and historical panels. The city is chipping in nearly $140,000 for the project and collecting donations from the public.</div>
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To get there, exit I-5 at Cottage Grove. Travel south on Highway 99 to Harrison Avenue. Turn west on Harrison to Old River Road. Turn south on Old River Road. Chambers RR is off of Old River Road just south of Harrison.</div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: x-large;">Currin Covered Bridge</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr2sJnOGdyzCCY8BVpfG-Iq6VgqV-WaYpRZrmV3BSS3IwZqpnHHGpT0lWc9FPPTKkwjdW-7wz6TQ76zTXs6DXjxQs31j6_6cw9wqOgGgca-z2fl_LTGOtLxbMIY46BfCfThsUoLFG9_zo1/s1600-h/IMG_5344.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr2sJnOGdyzCCY8BVpfG-Iq6VgqV-WaYpRZrmV3BSS3IwZqpnHHGpT0lWc9FPPTKkwjdW-7wz6TQ76zTXs6DXjxQs31j6_6cw9wqOgGgca-z2fl_LTGOtLxbMIY46BfCfThsUoLFG9_zo1/s400/IMG_5344.jpg" height="267" kt="true" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">World Guide Number: 37-20-22</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Lane County</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Currin Covered Bridge was built in 1925 using the Howe truss design and spans 105 feet across the Row River.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">"Row" is not pronounced the same way we sing "Row row row your boat"...but its pronunciation does rhyme with "Wow" or "Cow."</span></div>
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Architectural distinctions include single piece hand-hewn chords and cross-wise planking on the approach. It is Oregon's only covered bridge with white portals and red sides.</div>
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In the Cottage Grove City Hall building, a scale model of the Currin Bridge, shown at the 1986 World's Fair in Vancouver, B.C., is on display. Though you can no longer drive across the Currin Covered Bridge, you can walk across it.</div>
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To get there, travel four miles southeast of Cottage Grove on Row River Road to the intersection of Layng Road. The bridge crosses the Row River at this location and is located one mile from the Mosby Creek Bridge, also on Layng Road.</div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">World Guide Number: 37-20-27</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Lane County</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Mosby Covered Bridge was built in 1920 with the Howe truss design and spans 90 feet across Mosby Creek.</span></div>
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The Mosby Creek Bridge is Lane County’s oldest covered bridge, having been built at a cost of $4,125 by Walter and Miller Sorenson. Oddly enough, the oldest Lane County covered bridge is the only covered bridge in the Cottage Grove Region that is still use on the commuting road system.</div>
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To get there, travel one mile east of Cottage Grove on Row River Road. Follow the sign to Mosby Creek Road by turning right, and crossing the railroad track. Turn left on Mosby Creek Road and travel southeast two miles to the bridge. Alternately, from Currin Bridge continue southwest on Layng Road to Mile Point 0.2 to Mosby Creek Bridge.</div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">World Guide Number: 37-20-28</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Stewart Covered Bridge was built in 1930 with the Howe truss design and spans 60 feet across Mosby Creek.</span></div>
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As with other wooden bridges in Oregon, the Stewart Bridge has had its share of woes. Heavy rains of the 1964 "Christmas Flood" brought water raging down Mosby Creek with the resulting force cracking the lower chords of the bridge.</div>
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Just over four years later, a heavy snowstorm dropped more than three feet of snow on most of the Willamette Valley. The roof bracing gave way under the weight of the snow, and the entire roof caved in.</div>
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Repairs to the bridge once again made it usable, and it carried a 20-ton limit until it was bypassed in the mid-1980s by a concrete span.</div>
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The bridge's major woes today is surviving vandalism. Surveillance cameras now monitor the bridge and grounds around the bridge. A swimming hole underneath the bridge is busy during the summer with swimmers.</div>
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To get there, travel one mile east of Cottage Grove on Row River Road. Follow the sign to Mosby Creek Road, turning right and crossing the railroad tracks. Turn left (south) on Mosby Creek Road and travel approximately 3.5 miles to Garoutte Road.</div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">World Guide Number: 37-20-23</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Dorena Covered Bridge was built in 1945 with the Howe truss design and spans 105 feet across the Row River. The pronunciation of the "Row" River rhymes with "Cow".</span></div>
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When Dorena Dam was built in 1946, plans were made to span the Row River at the upper end of the reservoir. Government Road along the west bank was completed in 1949, and the Dorena Bridge was built a year later after the reservoir was filled, at a cost of $16,547.</div>
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The bridge is often referred to as the "Star Bridge" because it provided access to the nearby Star Ranch.</div>
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Once a large and proud estate, the ranch has been reduced to about 100 acres.</div>
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The state-designed bridge was bypassed in 1974 by a concrete span. You can still drive across the Dorena Covered Bridge, but the driving is for tourist purposes only. Once across the bridge, you have to turn around and drive back over it. The Dorena Covered Bridge is one of the widest covered bridges in Oregon.</div>
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The original town site, named for Dora Burnette and Rena Martin (by combining parts of their first names) is underwater at the bottom of the reservoir.</div>
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A railroad in the vicinity served the mining camps until the gold mines played out.</div>
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The lumber industry developed and used the rails to ship logs to Cottage Grove. Until 1987, the rails were used by a steam-powered excursion train. The cost of liability insurance increased too much to keep it going, and only freight traffic passes today.</div>
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A few miles up river from the Dorena Covered Bridge, you'll find the Wildwood Falls. This small break in the otherwise relatively calm Row River is known for being one of the best swimming holes in the area.</div>
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On sunny days, you'll likely see local swimmers here, relaxing on the banks of the river, or jumping from atop the falls into the large pool at it's base. But don't let the enjoyable scene deceive you. Several drownings have occurred yearly at these falls. Even the experienced swimmers have lost the battle here.</div>
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To get to the Dorena Covered Bridge, travel five miles east of Cottage Grove on Row River Road to the junction of Government Road. Continue east on Government Road seven miles to the bridge.</div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">In October 2009, my mother and I, and the four dogs, began a venture that would end up taking us on a journey throughout the western half of the state of Oregon. Our goal was to visit all of Oregon's covered bridges. We accomplished this goal in six weekend day trips. I have divided the covered bridges into nine regions.</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Here is what we discovered in the</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">World Guide Number: 37-10-02</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Pass Creek Covered Bridge was built in 1925 with the Howe truss design and spans 61 feet across Pass Creek.</span><br />
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Although the official date of construction of the current Pass Creek Bridge is listed as 1925, members of the Umpqua Historic Preservation Society attest the span was constructed in 1906.<br />
Mamie Krewson Matoon, who was born in 1894, remembered a covered bridge over Pass Creek as a child. <em>"It was an old bridge at the time. Long before Drain had lights, we packed a lantern on dark nights when going through it in a hack drawn by two horses.</em>"<br />
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Old timers recall the Pass Creek Bridge provided excitement around 1920 when a horse-drawn wagon crashed through the floor while hauling supplies for a Thanksgiving turkey shoot. The wagon dropped below the decking, and the turkey's fell to their death drowning in the cold creek below.<br />
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It is probable the covered wagon bridge at this location was either rebuilt or replaced in 1925, displacing the earlier span. Holes in the lower chords indicate that it may have been salvaged from another bridge. Today a concrete bridge now crosses Pass Creek where the old wooden structure once rested.<br />
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The wooden bridge was closed to traffic in 1981, causing the handful of local residents surrounding the span to maneuver under a cramped railroad trestle to get to their homes. But in the fall of 1987, six years after the bridge closing, the roof and siding of the covered bridge were removed, a 90-ton crane lifted the trusses and moved them one block away where the structure was fixed and reassembled the following year.<br />
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Also along the Highway 38 Corridor, Roosevelt Elk can be seen in abundance.<br />
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To get there from Interstate 5, take Highway 38, exit 162, to Drain. In Drain, take West B Street, turn south onto 2nd Street and go one block to West A Street. Located in the city of Drain, behind Drain Civic Center at 205 W. A Street.<br />
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<span style="color: black;">The Rochester Covered Bridge was built in 1933 with the Howe truss design and spans 80 feet across the Calapooya Creek...not to be confused with the Calapooya River to the Willamette North.</span><br />
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The design of this bridge is unique among Oregon roofed structures, featuring windows having graceful curved tops.<br />
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With the droopy-eyed appearance, the Rochester Covered Bridge is one of the most beautiful "rustic-farm" styled Oregon covered bridges.<br />
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In the late 1950s, a nearby covered span was torched and destroyed by a county crew to make way for a new concrete bridge. Rumors had spread that the Rochester bridge would meet the same fate.<br />
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Many local residents feared that those same county workers who favored progress would wait until nightfall to burn the Rochester Bridge. The locals sat through the night with guns and rifles to safeguard the dilapidated structure. With the arrival of daylight, the bridge was safe.<br />
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County commissioners then promised the residents the bridge would not be burned. The Rochester Bridge was remodeled in 1969 when county crews worked to replace portal boarding, the approaches and the abutments.<br />
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The Rochester Covered Bridge sits perfectly amongst the traditional rolling hills of the Umpqua basin. Farmlands surround the area. The transition from a wet hemlock and fir temperate forest to the drier pine and oak forest collide here. The area is quiet, peaceful, beautiful...just don't mess with their covered bridge.<br />
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To get there from Interstate 5 and Sutherlin, travel west on Highway 138 approximately two miles to Sterns Lane. Turn north on Sterns Lane to Rochester Road. The bridge is just north of the intersection of Sterns Lane and Rochester Road.</div>
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The Cavitt Creek Bridge was built in 1943 with the Howe truss design and spans 70 feet across Little River.<br />
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Locals also refer to this bridge as the Little River covered bridge, mainly because the bridge actually crosses the Little River and not Cavitt Creek.<br />
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The word "<em>Creek</em>" in the bridge title is inaccurate. The word should have been "<em>Road.</em>" The bridge is on Cavitt Creek Road, but the bridge crosses the Little River...making this bridge's name the only Oregon covered bridge crossing a river with creek in its title. Confused yet?<br />
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The Howe truss design features Tudor arch portals to accommodate heavy log truck usage, and the upper and lower chords utilize raw logs as its members. Each side of the roofed structure sports three windows, and long narrow slits above each truss allow "day-lighting" as well as ventilation for the bridge interior.<br />
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The bridge has a metal roof and a floor with longitudinal running planks. The covered structure sits on concrete piers.<br />
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The Cavitt Creek covered bridge was included in the thematic nomination of Oregon's covered bridges to the National Register in 1979, but was not listed at the request of the County.</div>
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Not far the Cavitt Covered Bridge sits the Cavitt Creek County Park. The park is where we ate lunch before heading off to the next covered bridge.</div>
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The park was a great location to let the dogs roam. My mother also enjoyed working the water well. She said there was one of these pumps back on her parent's farm...bringing back childhood memories.</div>
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Maxx watched cautiously while the pump filled and over flowed his water bowl.</div>
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The Roseburg area rolling hills are like no others in southern Oregon. From the Cavitt Covered Bridge, to our next, Horse Creek Covered Bridge, we drove the back roads venturing through winding farm roads, delicate communities, and fields of green with splashes of brilliant yellow.<br />
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To get to the Cavitt Covered Bridge from Roseburg, take Highway 138 east to Glide. Just before entering Glide turn south on Little River Road. The bridge is approximately seven miles south of Highway 138 at the intersection of Little River Road and Cavitt Creek Road (county roads 17 and 82).</div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">World Guide Number: 37-10-12</span></div>
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Built in 1930, Horse Creek Covered Bridge originally spanned 105 feet across Horse Creek in the vicinity of McKenzie Bridge in Lane County.<br />
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Although a concrete span in 1968 had bypassed the bridge, it was not removed until December of 1987.</div>
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The bridge's wooden timbers were given to the City of Cottage Grove for salvage. Cottage Grove used some of the timbers to construct a small-scale covered bridge in their park. The remaining lumber was donated to the City of Myrtle Creek in the spring of 1990, and from there, a covered bridge was born.</div>
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The new structure now spans the stream of Myrtle Creek, providing access from a parking area into the Mill Site Park in downtown Myrtle Creek.</div>
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Prior to the removal and scattering of its timbers, this bridge was listed on the National Historic Register.<br />
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Several volunteers and donations made the “new” bridge possible. These much appreciated people and businesses are honored by their names printed on the inside-ceiling roof.<br />
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To get there, exit Interstate 5 at Myrtle Creek. Follow Highway 99, the main street through downtown. The bridge is to the west in Mill Site Park.</div>
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The Neal Lane Bridge was built in 1929 with the Kingpost truss design and spans 42 feet across the South Myrtle Creek near the town of Myrtle Creek.<br />
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The bridge has at least two unique distinctions: it is one of the shortest covered bridges in Oregon, and is the only roofed span in Oregon using a Kingpost truss design.<br />
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The 42-foot wooden bridge appears even shorter with the addition of the narrow long windows. Can you see my mother in the window?</div>
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The bridge spans a stream used heavily for irrigation, therefore, water levels are often constant.</div>
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Travelers crossing the bridge will note its quaint cross-wise plank flooring, a single large window on both sides, a metal roof and a 5-ton weight limit.</div>
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The Neal Covered Bridge was a great little unique bridge to visit. The little bridge calls you back to a simpler time when picnics were likely held on the banks of the creek with the giggling sounds of children playing in the background.</div>
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To get there from the city center of Myrtle Creek travel south on Main Street to Riverside Drive. Head east on Riverside Drive to Day's Creek Cut Off Road. Travel South on Day's Creek Cut-off Road to Neal Lane.</div>
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The Canyon Creek Covered Pedestrian Bridge was built in 1976 with a steal beam design and spans 75 feet across Canyon Creek.</div>
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The Canyon Creek Bridge in Canyonville could be mistaken as part of Pioneer Park's landscaping design rather than a functional pathway over the creek in Canyonville. None-the-less, it does make a nice addition to the park.<br />
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Standing in the middle of the bridge, the swift current drowns out the noise from the freeway. It also drowns out any conversation you might be having with a friend. It would not be the romantic bridge you'd want to propose on...the water is too noisy. She say, "what?" instead of "yes!"</div>
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To get there, head south on I-5 from Roseburg to Canyonville. Take Canyonville Exit 99. Follow the signs directing driver's downtown. Follow Main Street south, turn left onto Third Street then left onto Canyon Avenue. The bridge is adjacent to Pioneer Park.</div>
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The Milo Academy Covered Bridge was built in 1962 with a steel girder truss design and spans 100 feet across the South Umpqua River.<br />
The bridge at the Seventh Day Adventist Academy near Milo is a one-of-a-kind in Oregon covered bridge history. The covering certainly is not a structural necessity but fills an aesthetic need, as it is Oregon's only steel bridge housed in wood.<br />
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Since 1920, residents had a covered bridge serving the academy across the South Umpqua River. When the wooden covered bridge was replaced with a steel span, the community felt it had lost a part of its identity.</div>
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The steel structure was then modified to include the wooden housing, and today the white covered bridge stands as a reminder to the residents of their previous covered bridge.</div>
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For me, the Milo Academy bridge had an industrial esthetic unattractive look more so than the usual beautiful designed country styled covered bridge found in Oregon. I was also disappointed to see they still had the Christmas lights attached to the bridge in early October? One would wonder, <em>why puts lights on the bridge at all</em>, especially knowing that Christmas lights were the cause that destroyed the historic Jordan Covered Bridge. The best locations to photograph this bridge is from either up or down stream. <br />
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To get there from Canyonville and I-5, travel east on Third Street and continue through Days Creek to the community of Milo. The bridge is located east of Milo at Milepost 20.5.<br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">~ Fire Watch Tower ~</span><br />
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The watchtower once sat atop Red Mountain, but was brought to the historic Tiller Ranger Station and restored. The historic capola design tower sits as a reminder of the importance to fire control in the Pacific Northwest.<br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">In October 2009, my mother and I, and the four dogs, began a venture that would end up taking us on a journey throughout the western half of the state of Oregon. Our goal was to visit all of Oregon's covered bridges. We accomplished this goal in six weekend day trips. I have divided the covered bridges into nine regions.</span></div>
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The Grave Creek Covered Bridge was built in 1920 with a Howe truss design and spans 105 feet across Grave Creek.<br />
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Features of the wooden structure include six gothic style windows on either side, concrete abutments, a Howe truss, rounded portals and a shake roof.<br />
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The old wooden river crossing was the last covered bridge on the North/South Pacific Highway system.<br />
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Existing records on the Grave Creek Bridge show a contract awarded by the Oregon State Highway Department to J. Elmer Nelson in April 1920.</div>
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The bridge is the last existing covered bridge in Josephine County.<br />
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The Grave Creek Covered Bridge is one of the best examples of a country preserved covered bridge.<br />
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Hidden between the Smith Hill Summit to the north and the infamous Sexton Mountain Pass to the south, the picturious Sunny Valley and covered bridge has the appearance of a life size train set with fall decorated trees dotting the landscape.<br />
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Only thing missing is the train and tracks. They pass through this small valley about a mile to the west. </div>
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To get there from Grants Pass, travel 15 miles north on Interstate 5 to Sunny Valley, exit 71. Turn left at Sunny Valley Loop Road and continue north for about one mile. The Grave Creek Covered Bridge can be seen from I-5 and is approximately 0.25 miles from the highway.</div>
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The "old" Wimer Covered Bridge was build in 1927 with the Queenpost truss design and spans 85 feet across Evans Creek. But on July 6, 2003, the Wimer Covered Bridge collapsed.</div>
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On a hot summer afternoon, in the quiet community of Wimer, Oregon, local residents were startled to hear a giant crashing sound coming from the vicinity of their covered bridge. Customers at the Wimer Market, only a dozen paces away, rushed out to witness the unthinkable. The historic Wimer Covered Bridge in Southern Oregon had spontaneously collapsed into Evans Creek.</div>
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The July 6, 2003 incident shocked and saddened a community. The weekly Rogue River Press expressed what many residents felt with the simple headline in its next issue: “It’s Gone!” The bridge collapsed due to extensive decay in the bottom chord at a panel point on the upstream truss.</div>
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The small community of Wimer, Oregon immediately started the process of rebuilding their beloved bridge. After years of planning and fund raising construction started on the new structure.</div>
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The community rallied and rebuilt the Wimer Covered Bridge.</div>
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On July 6, 2008, five years after the collapse, the new Wimer Covered Bridge was reopened with a city wide celebration including evening fireworks.</div>
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Features of the new Wimer covered span include a shingle roof, the usual daylighting narrow windows above the trusses, asphalt flooring, and now a Howe truss design instead of the Queenpost truss. </div>
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The bridge appears not unlike a barn from downstream and only the flying buttresses indicate it to be a covered bridge and not a barn over water.</div>
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The Wimer Covered Bridge is Oregon's newest covered bridge. A "redesigned" replica of the historic original covered bridge. We crossed the bridge and stopped at the little market ajacent to the bridge. We bought some sweet snack.</div>
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To get there, take I-5 exit 48 at the small town of Rogue River. Travel north on East Evans Creek Road to the small town of Wimer. The Wimer Covered Bridge is located next to the city market.</div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">World Guide Number: 37-15-02</span></div>
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The bridge originally was built in 1922 and spanned Antelope Creek some 10 miles southeast of Eagle Point. In August 1987, the structure was loaded onto a makeshift trailer and volunteers hauled it to the city of Eagle Point.</div>
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The Antelope Creek Bridge was built with a Queenpost truss and now spans 58 feet across Little Butte Creek.<br />
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When the bridge was rebuilt at the new site, arched openings were cut into each side so school kids could be watched as they crossed the span.<br />
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This alteration caused the bridge to be removed from the National Register of Historic Places. Since then, the bridge has been re-sided in a fashion that represents the original design. Now only ribbon openings appear under the eves.<br />
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While we were visiting the Antelope Covered Bridge, there was a group of juvenile delinquents gathered inside the bridge smoking pot. We waited some time for the kids to leave so pictures of the bridge could be taken without people. They didn't budge until a police car drove by. They immediately scattered at the site of police. Once the "coast-was-clear" they returned to the hidden walls and resumed their illegal activity.<br />
City's officials wanted window's in the bridge, to watch such delinquents, but because of the "importance" of preserving history, the positive ways of these kid's futures lie in jeopardy.<br />
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I expressed my concerns regarding the drug use and irresponsible activity within the bridge to Leon Sherman, the mayor and retired police chief of Eagle Point. Sherman reassured to me that efforts have been made to hamper the misuse of the bridge. He said, "<em>proper funding has been reduced or eliminated all together that could help monitor the bridge's activity</em>." Sherman also expressed his frustrations regarding the political jargon that has taken place over the years as to how to resolve the youth's misuse of the bridge. Sherman said, "<em>the nearby school can't do anything, because the bridge is not on school grounds. We lost two officers due to budget cuts. The historical society demands proper preservation, old working policies were dismissed." </em>Political jargon.<em> </em><br />
Once funding is in place, Sherman said, "<em>the next step is to install surveillance camera's in and near the bridge will help curtail such poor judgement activity</em>." <br />
<span style="color: black;">The preservation of history is important, but is it worth risking the future of these fallen youth? If windows would help, then why not alter the bridge to preserve and protect the future?</span><br />
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Mayor Sherman is moving in the right direction. I believe he has the historic past and the future of his town's youth in his best interest.</div>
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To get the Antelope Covered Bridge from Highway 62 in Eagle Point, turn east onto Linn Road (sign points to Eagle Point and Klamath Falls). Travel to South Buchanan Street and turn left. Turn right onto West Main Street and continue to Royal Avenue. The bridge is located in the city of Eagle Point at the intersection of Main Street and Royal Avenue.</div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">World Guide Number: 37-15-03</span></div>
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The Lost Creek Bridge, at 39 feet, is the shortest of all Oregon covered bridges. The bridge was build with a Queenpost truss and crosses the seasonal Lost Creek. Since 1979, the structure has been closed to traffic.</div>
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Many Jackson County residents, including Shirley Stone, daughter of pioneer John Walch, claim the Lost Creek Bridge to have been built as early as 1878-1881. If authenticated, this would make the Lost Creek Covered Bridge, Oregon's oldest standing covered bridge.</div>
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The span may have been partially or totally rebuilt in 1919, hence the official construction date in that year. Features of the bridge include the usual county Queenpost design, a shingle roof and flying buttress braces.</div>
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The rough wooden flooring consists of diagonal planking, which bears the history of wagon track creases permanently gouged into the wood flooring.</div>
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The gouges were very evident. History seen at its best.</div>
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The Walch Memorial Wayside Park abuts the bridge site. Descendants of John and Marie Newsome Walch built and maintain the park, which includes picnic tables, a bandstand, cooking areas, manicured flower gardens and an outhouse built in the 1930's by Tom Stanely. After 80 plus years, the outhouse is still usable.</div>
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At least I hope it is still usable?</div>
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The bridge was nearly lost in the 1964 Christmas flood. As swirling waters and heavy debris lashed at its piers, residents and concerned bridge enthusiasts prayed during the night that the bridge would be saved. </div>
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According to a local newspaper, the skies opened and the water receded as morning came. The Lost Creek Covered Bridge was not "lost". The journalist questioned, "<em>Was the bridge saved by prayer?</em>"</div>
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To get there from Eagle Point, continue southeast on Royal Avenue to Highway 140. Alternately, travel east on Highway 140 from Highway 62, (Crater Lake Highway.) Continue on Highway 140 to Lake Creek Loop Road. From Lake Creek Loop Road, travel south through the community of Lake Creek on South Fork Little Butte Creek Road. Turn south on Lost Creek Road and continue approximately one half mile. Lost Creek Bridge is 4 miles south of Lake Creek.</div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: x-large;">McKee Covered Bridge</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">World Guide Number: 37-15-06</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Jackson County</span></div>
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The McKee Covered Bridge was built in 1917 with the Howe truss design and spans 122 feet across the Applegate River.<br />
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"<em>We made it</em>."<br />
The rustic, well-known covered bridge spanning the Applegate River, just eight miles from the California border is the most southerly covered bridge in Oregon.<br />
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(photo by my mother)<br />
The Applegate River is a 51-mile long tributary of the Rogue River. It drains forested foothills of the Siskiyou Mountains along the Oregon-California border. The river is one of Oregon's 'north' flowing rivers.<br />
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The McKee Covered Bridge was used from 1917 to 1956, originally serving the mining and logging traffic. In 1956, the bridge was declared unsafe for vehicle traffic.<br />
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Features of the McKee Bridge include a Howe truss design, flying buttresses, open daylight windows at the roofline, and a shingle roof.<br />
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Lindsay Applegate, for whom the river is named, prospected the area on the way to the mines in California. </div>
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The discovery of prosperous mines caused a north-south route to be developed in the area, and the covered bridge was used as a rest stop because it was halfway between Jacksonville and the Blue Ledge Cooper Mine to the south.</div>
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We called the McKee Covered Bridge, "the bridge to nowhere." You're able to walk across the bridge, but a short distance beyond the other side, you're blocked by private property.<br />
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Though we were a bit disappointed with the McKee Covered Bridge with the lack of vantage photo locations, the drive out too the bridge through the Applegate Valley and foothills of the Siskiyou Mountains was very scenic.<br />
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To get there from Medford travel west on Highway 238 through Jacksonville to the little 'town' of Ruch. From Ruch head south on Applegate Road for approximately 8.5 miles.<br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;">Buncom</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Southern Oregon ghost town</span><br />
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Before heading home, we took a side route to visit the last remaining historic ghost town in southern Oregon.<br />
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Hidden among the pines in a corner of Southern Oregon's Applegate Valley, the ghost town of Buncom provides a look back into the past, to the days when gold miners swarmed the hills.</div>
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The three buildings at Buncom are all that remains of a once thriving gold mining camp. When gold was discovered on Sterling Creek in 1854, thousands of miners flocked there from the gold fields of California and other Oregon locations. Many of them made their fortunes, but most didn't.</div>
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The mining claims soon were consolidated and run by large companies, but Buncom found a second life. Since it was a day's wagon ride from Jacksonville, the nearest town, Buncom became the supply and distribution center for the farmers and ranchers in the Little Applegate Valley. A stagecoach route ran through it, and the federal government made Buncom a post office in 1896.</div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">(post office and general store)</span><br />
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The coming of the automobile was the end for Buncom. With Jacksonville and Medford now just a short drive away, there no longer was a need for Buncom.<br />
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The post office closed in 1916, and while a small general store continued to operate much like a convenience store today, the buildings were eventually abandoned and fell into disrepair.</div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">(cookhouse)</span><br />
Then in 1990 the property was purchased by Reeve and Lyn Hennion, and with the enthusiastic help of neighbors and friends, the Buncom Historical Society was established to preserve the site and area history.<br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">(bunkhouse)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="color: black;">To get there from Medford, take Highway 238 west, through Jacksonville and travel another eight miles to the little community of Ruch. Turn left where the signs direct you to Valley View Winery and Applegate Lake. Go three miles south on Upper Applegate till you reach Little Applegate Road. Turn left on Little Applegate and go three miles to the intersection of Sterling Creek Road. You're in Buncom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: large;">MOUNT BOLIVAR OREGON</span><span style="color: #006600; font-family: trebuchet ms;"></span> <span style="color: #006600; font-family: trebuchet ms;">Mount Bolivar is a simple rocky peak that lies in southwest Oregon. Though simple, it is very complex when it comes to its boundary location.
Mount Bolivar is not only the highest point in Coos County, but it also holds a controversial title of being the highest point on the Coast Range. Some claim the title belongs to Mary’s Peak near Corvallis.
The dispute is <span style="color: #990000;">NOT</span> over which peak is the highest because Mount Bolivar wins that by just a few hundred feet. Mount Bolivar is 4,319 ft. while Mary’s Peak is 4,097 ft. The dispute is over Mount Bolivar’s geographic location. <span style="color: #990000; font-size: 85%;">(Mount Bolivar is the distant peak in the center of the photo below)</span> </span><div>
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<span style="color: #006600; font-family: trebuchet ms;">Man made boundaries also complicate the dispute. Curry County is considered to be in the Klamath Mountain, Coos County is a part of the Coast Range. The boundary between the two ranges is the Rogue River. Mount Bolivar is in Coos County, and north of the Rogue. But Klamath geology is also in Coos County as well as Coast Range geology is in Curry County.
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNg_DilaKve5DCmMswt2tmOqcrkgfbjhpwLoDYcrC6raw-D8BjBv4oyV4n5IJJDV4L-eIUuzQBIjGNggc7p4WsD0aZstPWJOQTFgbW7xw2B-JsSUY9md3iggbIK9gw7WvEedKF7wbhlWn4/s1600-h/DSC02700.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNg_DilaKve5DCmMswt2tmOqcrkgfbjhpwLoDYcrC6raw-D8BjBv4oyV4n5IJJDV4L-eIUuzQBIjGNggc7p4WsD0aZstPWJOQTFgbW7xw2B-JsSUY9md3iggbIK9gw7WvEedKF7wbhlWn4/s320/DSC02700.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282888726033410610" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 240px;" /></a>Technically, Mount Bolivar doesn’t lie within either boundary of the Klamath or Coast…or the Siskiyou Range for that matter. It lies within a merge zone of these ranges…making the geology formations and plant life unique to the area, and rare to any other place. Now that the science lesson is over…let’s go enjoy the journey to Mount Bolivar...no matter where it may actually lie.
My buddy Brian and his dog, Lakota, joined me on this trek. They are both from Montana. While they visited Oregon this last summer, my goal was to take them to as many places I could throughout Oregon. Mount Bolivar was just one of the many adventures. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxMHYY2tMkbaXxJy4mk2LVgRZpqLLJnGXoqT9opKkjXCBVibk10-HYZRL9rsFz5u7vc5InmXDz19XvOGKjVmHDn1RqrGAdUBN72mtytwJmkzvr7oleassofVGK0tTF2gRaixm_SdSFQkxj/s1600-h/DSC02876.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxMHYY2tMkbaXxJy4mk2LVgRZpqLLJnGXoqT9opKkjXCBVibk10-HYZRL9rsFz5u7vc5InmXDz19XvOGKjVmHDn1RqrGAdUBN72mtytwJmkzvr7oleassofVGK0tTF2gRaixm_SdSFQkxj/s200/DSC02876.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285085590152878834" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="color: #000099;">You'll see more of where we went in later BLOG entries.
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMvMYT4d5sTYNu8wXAp5sZ_MTsM2EQ-Nn-G6lH9FFG1CIG5QmMbkLPCr-HKxLGf8RDLDm5fZDbQCge7j3fJqOksd9wuf8JKCgoo1jWGqRRVjnPFjf04mIcMzqYUtzGxGq_ogiv2sNlL1L1/s1600-h/DSC02723.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMvMYT4d5sTYNu8wXAp5sZ_MTsM2EQ-Nn-G6lH9FFG1CIG5QmMbkLPCr-HKxLGf8RDLDm5fZDbQCge7j3fJqOksd9wuf8JKCgoo1jWGqRRVjnPFjf04mIcMzqYUtzGxGq_ogiv2sNlL1L1/s200/DSC02723.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285075699259257042" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a>The Mount Bolivar area is a plant lover’s paradise. The air was perfumed of that you’d smell if in the Cascades, and yet we were nowhere near the rugged range. Similar plants can be found here. Several summer blooming wild flowers were everywhere.
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Mount Bolivar rises to an impressive 4,319 Feet above sea level. The 360-degree view from the summit stretches from Mt. Shasta in the south to Mt. Hood in the north, but due to the fires ragging in California, our distance views were hazed over. <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNREhhs9QydzWd5xvsicUItGP9aWpVyL_eHLvSYKMIglkNgjiHBVlrTtKiDINB1n5755kmsw9gmMR9oAiq-0AtdMKJimt96QxZjTNApdqmQDq6WuXTzcUrN8-dvWjQ8xMJsdcZSis8UC5y/s400/DSC02862.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285072560106357842" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" />The most impressive view from the summit was the steep scared canyons and the sharp ridges to the south that comprise the northern border of the Wild Rogue Wilderness area. <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWAqPNjJYLlLy3y3hAsaG-AmfUabB7bKsrSihIoyBobWtUDRtOxdERz9cBbQIDBgFNf2sE9nLFcR2zsu2DI9HogAjglNp9zBODKK74dhfDR-68xRXKArU6O0qUtgGdY3EzYHfrL8X6Ipa7/s400/DSC02669.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285054240358408450" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" />The Mount. Bolivar summit’s geology is derived of the Coast Range, while nearby Saddle Peak and Diamond Peak's geology is that of the Klamath Mountains. <span style="color: #990000; font-size: 85%;">(Saddle Peak is in the photo below...on the left, Diamond Peak is on the right)</span> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFsmxeeydsp03RMMZUf706vS0Utb63ZbJ_cnfdWnl4OSyaDIOuZ2f0JVKxVRrSJVGqSVY9gIu4Vosql-O4jOH70yu5d-nG1ozXAPuzQP4RLVpHmWTg-FtPSUwU33wcmfP14HNYF6_-DsbB/s400/DSC02696.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285053252515690066" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" />To the north and northeast, you see the work of BLM and the patches of clear-cut hillsides through the Coast Range. The Eden Valley lies directly below. To the east and southeast, one can see mile after mile of forested hills, ridges, and mountains that make up the Siskiyou Range and the Rogue Wilderness.
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The summit of Mount Bolivar once had a fire lookout tower, but like many other lookout summits, only cement foundations and remnants remain.
Mount. Bolivar was named in honor of Simon Bolivar, the Venezuelan-born liberator. Simon Bolivar was one of South America's greatest generals. His victories over the Spaniards won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. He is called El Liberator (The Liberator) and the "George Washington of South America," (1783-1830).
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<span style="color: #006600; font-family: trebuchet ms;">The country of Venezuela donated a bronze plaque to be placed on the peak named after their liberator. It reads; <span style="color: #006600;"><em>“The United States was the first to teach us the path to independence.”</em></span></span><span style="color: #006600; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: #006600;"><em>-Simon Bolivar Jamaica, 1815
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Steven Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331388669815336221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066618958117366133.post-18018069266493266682014-01-16T23:04:00.000-08:002014-02-27T22:24:21.822-08:00Somewhere "Over" the Rainbow<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAtt-MAjDJFDhybe_M6VMbnE_7yKVtGAzmAJ1LqBJFXxD6T4N8V-UMjKgLgT2pGc0-nZ1347ASyDY1XCRMjz214455dZ0sgR0YYWLrdcNdYif-ljvxPrTsgKL_P0faP0mjU9tlOpLJJANr/s1600-h/"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQJfVPAeVZ-fe75_Av5JcWZvwGbEGX4h3oCPYIqNZhv3YaXUv3mfGM-aF109nKqIeE_G_8NWGu9zNY83GXge_mChF59cmaXlbSwGPxt_Dhq13LZ1woWAfr7ino2uLe4g42-VYd78Y50_SS/s400/%237.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295533627917655698" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: trebuchet ms;"></span>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: trebuchet ms;">Brian and Tyler-Marie and I were out at Sunset Bay enjoying a beautiful calm sunny afternoon, tide-pooling and collecting marble size concretions.</span><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ercsP5QfHNn9JklZGIyKZ6jSaHTUfW2HNCsyzIN-JHG0Pf5ajUwlskBGUsvjUbQlgqZ-XhclObE0-O974Q8WRFvRkaDLy6BejJs5GzD9ekZicPCtMam6hpgR33ZUrsa7cIw5z7x_fluS/s400/CONCRE.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295537968090574114" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 159px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: trebuchet ms;">Collecting this unusual rock is "phenomical" all in itself...but that afternoon we were treated with a more unusual work of nature. </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: trebuchet ms;">High above the sky we discovered an "upside-down" rainbow. It was very bright and extremely beautiful. </span></div>
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4FrzwwISuU_mdBfagHeS9mn8DkNuqqQOWIBjEmZd_Uo_84UfokemT5CJI-96aqHGeWpmlUcNER_lFl-0lEexDTs7HxZTKgoe7iGhHrUCcKEyTW4M5A1YmYq5yZW_a6WntL1zt4e6qqZDd/s400/DSC01181.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295525709594900482" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /> <span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: trebuchet ms;">This phenomenon is called a <span style="color: #000099;">circumzenithal arc</span>...(CZA)</span>
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: trebuchet ms;">A <span style="color: #000099;">circumzenithal arc</span> is a fascinating atmospheric phenomenon, sometimes called a reverse rainbow, because at first glance it does indeed resemble a backwards or upside-down rainbow. </span>
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: trebuchet ms;">Many observers miss out on <span style="color: #000099;">circumzenithal arc's</span>, because they are located directly overhead. Unlike a rainbow, which appears opposite the sun, a <span style="color: #000099;">circumzenithal arc</span> is centered around the <span style="color: #000099;">zenith</span> of the sky, and can only appear if the solar angle is less than 32 degrees.
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</span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmitkkR1Ke0fuJ9wAJTSq_mUQ7B_E1QxxkH54il_2VzxrYB_Tfj6_yBvpfNyj5b1Hj9mvT9L6cz8f3eCrqb4nTvSC8wTr2QSgLVru97KcryVwCVZvIb1pKrMvrPJYLWRhQ68kAugj4A-xw/s400/parhelic+circle+diagram.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295527778646102610" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 311px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 310px;" />In order for conditions to be right for a <span style="color: #000099;">circumzenithal arc</span> to form, small, flat, six sided ice crystals must be suspended high in the sky to create a field of tiny prisms. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgFHT52L4ohWom3Y2O3mbPVijMKG5TUW9gDx0ZfmNkIzYfHpTniiE7jkajrOFdMFPVwNXDF_JyLmW2RTQZY2Ch25AsFrKgGnQxtnvDExZdCwZ9efxSt3OBrJiaxspMvEK1jM-OqYvI74yr/s1600-h/DSC01182.JPG"></a>The sun's rays enter the ice crystals and reflect through them, projecting an arc in the sky. </span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm05z5z-QxfWaIKmzNClbMfLdnXxdElO5Yq_Zq2ikLAELvac1tLevLXbwB28JOl0PZOPNBsA_L3F59k1Q31uTjG-zqaAPnWi66ylDfg6d5JEkZ1D3q2fouVEYPIWce3Le7VLVyUWR8y0_K/s1600-h/DSC01182.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm05z5z-QxfWaIKmzNClbMfLdnXxdElO5Yq_Zq2ikLAELvac1tLevLXbwB28JOl0PZOPNBsA_L3F59k1Q31uTjG-zqaAPnWi66ylDfg6d5JEkZ1D3q2fouVEYPIWce3Le7VLVyUWR8y0_K/s200/DSC01182.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295528531772008642" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a>The <span style="color: #000099;">circumzenithal arc</span> will remain until the solar angle changes, unless weather conditions change dramatically.
The colors of a <span style="color: #000099;">circumzenithal arc</span> are also reversed from those of a rainbow; the violet end of the spectrum is closer to the zenith of the sky, while the red range is closest to Earth. Technically, the red range is still at the top of the arc, but because the arc is reversed, the colors seem upside down as well. When looking at a <span style="color: #000099;">circumzenithal arc</span>.</span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: trebuchet ms;">In most cases, a <span style="color: #000099;">circumzenithal arc</span> will last at least half an hour, and sometimes more, plenty of time to admire and photograph the beautiful phenmonon. They are most common in colder climates, where ice crystals tend to collect in the sky with abundance, although they can be seen in temperate zones as well, especially during cooler weather. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdiJ8RKcsv9IBDDUa-40QhW9Iw6w9luvzpcoqENz9ude5PgLAwxUgeCfBwGDj-cqa6_Ka7mnkYfVZhrkaMDfo_rbAz9PPkpUKcDe5vv08tfaLcF2A79Ylv6Gr-LZM8S1MknIiwNe3Vw82X/s1600-h/CircumzenithalarcND.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdiJ8RKcsv9IBDDUa-40QhW9Iw6w9luvzpcoqENz9ude5PgLAwxUgeCfBwGDj-cqa6_Ka7mnkYfVZhrkaMDfo_rbAz9PPkpUKcDe5vv08tfaLcF2A79Ylv6Gr-LZM8S1MknIiwNe3Vw82X/s200/CircumzenithalarcND.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295538886454936834" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 150px;" /></a></span>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: trebuchet ms;">This photo was taken in Grand Forks, North Dakota on January 31st 2007</span>
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: trebuchet ms;">If <span style="color: #000099;">circumzenithal arc</span> phenomenon wasn't enough that day, we were also treated with a <span style="color: #000099;">parhelic Circle</span>. </span>
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: trebuchet ms;">The <span style="color: #000099;">parhelic circle</span> can be an impressive white arc spanning 360 degrees in <span style="color: #000099;">azimuth</span>...(the point where a vertical circle through a given heavenly body intersects the horizon)...when complete, running through the sun, the two 22o parhelia. It is parallel to the horizon, and at the same elevation as the sun. <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM2NV-HewgzWiHR0jzEPHiJlH4ei7JZqHE2ClkwRdbFydnfECEn2BU9rYqDCfs2ESXffVb_EzXxE3h_NJqm5wldhZvE4yY8RPJ_oH1r7uOFNRUwrQH2tOA8tX2HZz5lhkfNwHqmcPLjjGy/s400/DSC01186.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295529669260230962" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" />In this photo, it looks like the sun is visible within the ring. Brian is looking at the CZA...the sun is directly in front of him. The round white sun-like "sun" in this photo is a reflection of the real sun within the Parhelic Circle. There were three reflections visible; one south, east and north...and of course the real sun was west. </span>
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<img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxX_R7s1oY12su_A7Yxpdmbg5aJbG2-Fcx5rl4u7JynrJA6mqZFEB_2P4mVAFjFd1X2v6WVCVdGgUXPgVQZjabPF7q6LGPCM9GZfK6LmWWz-AQKaS61zgai8wZHf8lpZ3wU8KchdYQvRfo/s200/parhelic+circle+diagram.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295532901100531170" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 200px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 199px;" /><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: trebuchet ms;">The <span style="color: #000099;">parhelic circle</span> is caused by sunlight reflecting from the vertical faces of horizontally aligned, plate-like ice-crystals. Sometimes, the arc can also be colored, in the <span style="color: #000099;">anthelion</span> area.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">A great day for the Heaven's to present nature at its best.</span>Steven Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331388669815336221noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066618958117366133.post-32218213888987296052014-01-07T23:16:00.000-08:002014-02-27T21:44:34.063-08:00Cape Blanco Lighthouse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before construction began on the Cape Blanco Lighthouse, the site was covered with a dense spruce forest, but the trees had to be cut to prevent obstruction of the light, and to elliminate the chance of a forest fire destroying the light station.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My hiking buddies, Brian and Tyler-Marie, joined me for a day of adventure around the Cape of Blanco. We first visited the lighthouse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The conical tower stands at fifty-nine feet and has the traditional spiral staircase found in most pacific lighthouses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brian climbs the green lighthouse staircase to the lantern room, along the way the tour guide stops and tells us about the vent holes. These vents allowed the fumes from the early day oil burning smoke to escape the lighthouse so the keepers would not be asphyxiated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Cape Blanco lighthouse was commissioned in 1870, but before the lighthouse could begin operation, a lot of obstacles had to be completed. At the time, access to the cape was considered difficult due to its rugged and remote location. Building a state-of-the-art lighthouse was going to be difficult. The cut timbers from the cape were used in the construction, and the bricks were also kilned on site. The brick maker was paid $25 per thousand bricks. To complete the lighthouse, two-hundred thousand bricks were needed. Things didn't go well for the brick maker, for his first batch was considered to be of inferior quality and the bricks were rejected. He was fired and another brick maker was hired. The inferior bricks were scattered across the cape and to this day can still be seen along the cliffs edge and grass grounds. I was able to find one before the grounds were closed to the public.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tyler-Marie is dwarfed by the impressive Fresnel lens that is housed in the lighthouse tower. The lens we are able to get up close and personal with is not the lens originally placed in this lighthouse. The original 1st order Fresnel lens was removed in 1936 and replaced for a slightly smaller rotating eight bulls-eye lens. A mystery surrounds the original lens...for after its removal, it dissappeared from site and hasn't been seen since.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1992, two local teenage boys broke into the lighthouse and with a sledgehammer they smashed a bulls-eye and six smaller prisms. The teenage vandels were eventually apprehended and convicted. After a nation wide search, the company to repair the priceless lens pieces was found in nearby Bandon, Oregon at the cost of $80,000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Cape Blanco Lighthouse is Oregon's oldest operating sentinal. The light is also Oregon's highest elevated above the sea with a focal plane of 256 feet, and the lighthouse is Oregon's most westerly lighthouse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Cape Blanco Lighthouse also holds a controversial title as being the most westerly lighthouse in the lower 48 states. Currently the Cape Flattery Lighthouse in Washington state, seen below, holds this title.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The controversy surrounding which lighthouse is further west is all technical. The Cape Flattery Lighthouse does sit further west but the lighthouse sits about one mile off the Washington mainland on the island of Tatoosh, therefore the lighthouse is techically not apart of the mainland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second half of our Cape Blanco adventure included trying to walk completely around the cape at sea-level. This can easily be done at a minus tide. While on the western flank of the cape we explored the calm tidepools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Besides the common hermit crabs and sea urchins, sea anenomes were everywhere and so were starfish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have lived on the coast most of my life. Seeing the tidepool creatures is nothing new to me, but for Brian and his dog Lakota, this was their very first starfish encounter. Brian is from Montana, and starfish are not apart of the normal wildlife in the Big-Sky-Country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lakota wasn't sure what to make of a starfish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Curry County coast is known as the "Land of the Rock Arches".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This arch sits just off the western flank of the cape and cannot be seen from the top of the cape, some 200 feet above and behind us. From the top you can see the rock, but not the arch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brian and Tyler-Marie and I spent several minutes in this area collecting agates and jasper. The rocky shoreline is a popular spot for harbor seals to sunbathe...few people venture to this location due to its remote access. This day, the seals fled long before we could get any good pictures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cape Blanco was named by the Spanish Captain Martin de Aguilla in 1603. He named the cape for its steep sheer chalky cliffs that appeared white from the sea. <em>Cape Blanco</em> means <em>White Cape</em> in Spanish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Up close, the chalky "white" cliff is actually a yellow sandstone, but sitting against the dark black basalt does make the southwestern flank appear white from out at sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Geologically the cape seems to be a big quake waiting to happen, sitting on three faults and tectonic plates. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This arial photo shows one of these faults. The center..."white" cliff, has fault lines on both sides. The most obvious fault can be seen in the lower right hand side where the "white" cliff lays against the black cliff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lighthouse keepers noted earthquakes in their log books throughout the years, including one a few days after the Great San Fransisco Earthquake of April 18, 1906. It was noted in the logs that the tower swayed for a minute on April 23, 1906.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fossils abound in the "white" cliffs, and finding petrified wood is common along the cape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the south flank, near the colliding of the black and "white" cliffs, a sea cave can be found. Brian took this picture from inside the cave looking south toward Humbug Mountain located in the distant left of this photo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many sea stacks litter the shore around the cape. The lighthouse at this location was a very appropriate place to build one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Needle Rock, on the south side of the cape, is the cape's most prominant and recognizeable sea stack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tyler-Marie stands next to the Needle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you appreciate late Victorian architecture, the Hughes House - built in 1898 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places is a must see. The majestic Hughes ranch house is a two-story, eleven room structure built of 2x8 old-growth Port Orford cedar that covers more than 3,000 square feet and was originally constructed for a mere $3,800.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The house stands on a terrace on the north side of Cape Blanco. This location protects the house from the worst of the winter southwesters - storms that generate winds above 100 mph. My mother and I enjoyed stopping by, but the place was not open for tours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After we toured the cape and the Cape Blanco Lighthouse, dinner was in order. The nearby town of Port Orford does not have many options to eat, but we did enjoy the eatings at the Crazy Norwegian's Fish & Chips restaurant, located in town right on highway 101.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the "wild" Sixes River to the north and the "wild" Elk River to the south, the Hughes House, fossils, petrified wood, tide-pools, sea stacks, and the lighthouse itself, makes Cape Blanco a first class place to spend the day...or two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">The first time I learned of these two towering basalt rocks was when I followed the journey of the Corps of Discovery with Lewis and Clark. But oddly enough, The Twin Rocks were never specifically mentioned in their journals, unlike other rock features documented during their journey. <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfiUal5dabytNZGQuycPsWH_orY7SzOX4uus2Giz5ltqjaY8ejY0nVMpyzwgAJ4zH-834fLYZV_MoHXNemEx6s8lNuRo2cQD7pnzlhJUL8sxpXgsSeo3mSzP6QQGVMEJxUdNZYpedGqWeI/s400/wallula_gap_basalt_flows_face_2003.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315569006214257266" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" />Clark described the exposed basalt walls at the Wallula Gap as <span style="color: #000099;">"black rugid rocks ..." [William Clark, October 18, 1805] </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="color: black;">When my own two sisters moved to the Tri-Cities area, I made it a point, when visiting them, to go find these dominant looking natural sculptures along the Columbia River.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Rising high above the Columbia, these spectacular pillars stand as the northern "guardians" to the modern activities of the busy shipping, train, and road traffic...which like the river, squeezes through the Wallula Gap.</span>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj09Ivbfqn2WfDRlvE6bkcPSy9jSFPuDut-iltZ2LEgH4hmuKAOpt6X9KUWf-zS2A7nQEu9kC9WRRpTSBzNONz_6MGfJ1Pa3qxVSvGi721lRP5UgVgvkYQA_WlzxGaf6TO73S1l_PoAzq2_/s400/wallula_gap_from_wa.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315569013960238066" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" />Floodwaters from Glacial Lake Missoula spread out over an area almost 100 miles wide across the Channeled Scabland of eastern Washington, so its not difficult to understand why the waters backed up when suddenly forced to pass through an opening as small as two miles wide. <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4kK2-KhiigAfVQP557dcV16YEM-mfZ10s3i-zMeCH9QxLPtomRMe1Q62gFxcKB2suzClD9NhVg0kVjNUltqGzH2JGha3znN_HFftnP2-_qkIU45H9y-JFK89sx78evrB6_SFMB5LFmpns/s400/Wallula-Sisters.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315569016273302674" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 245px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" />The Twin Sister's were under 600 feet of water during peak floods. They were definately shaped by the power of erosion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Today, the Twin Sister's won't see the burial of water that once regulary surround them, instead the land is arid and dry. <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjaqwhqIkjF-PRJnf_oKjLRXb2Zz9pcgCPiEOySmuhXnWOiml7LVIWQrJq86K7ETiDsYFiXjYBdouztQtbX3dUC4MRYPbKs_KrZCC8Sj8ECu2kG1sFBhH9YmKpIfFvScqRgUDRmqlUYE7D/s400/087_87.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315595588784473010" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" />Sage brush, wild flowers, and blowing sand dominates the uplands of the Wallula Gap.<img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifzSS1mp3MoQ4n2tzKckYt0PPKyYjUIj8-ylC92-4kvULZdFGFTfU6sMr85USBZQSqUoGbKYP4JjT-ZVjEm7tH86Nt1Y6yMBtrZwIrcXQKEbRYl13QlbLiKaTKFse_dM4_OrQfmOZWm0zW/s400/174_174.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315512173955814946" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana;">I took this photo of an old starving Juniper...one of only two trees I could find in the immediate area. The arid climate and lack of vegetation gives a great perspective view of the awesome landscape created by the Ice Age Floods, as seen in the photo below taken by the author of <em>On the Trail of Ice Age Flood,</em> Bruce Bjornstad.</span><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfhE62KldqWataG9W6WzAt8LPtp_48tZjK23kZjCn6oQCMwnA9LykMjz2OwNVIeQrs2uKpOL4Shrb474RwqgDMVTa9ci8Hb_T25MKbkW_BKVvBuMbTA9mZCrwoMpxWm_Mt5sitpTyLWbw4/s400/Wallula.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315554942990014098" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 165px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7SCWwsErZ3bHdDQUWgJSkNUF6fumjNMph0J2gN30bfVReK-wSPYZjfWsk_U56khrhKtToIaZ7gqtYNIKX_oL5coTroU1_FSJshBwFbflIEBjPMj8sk4kghfmb1QpNJKGjNaeqhsL1FJFB/s400/110_110.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315595597194525842" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /> <br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">I still have a hard time understanding why Lewis and Clark didn't find these basalt formations worthy of documenting...?</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAksoeMiEOdt16TkrLPhjOT3lJZJV9jhhxZtLMetAyv2DVxJExxQj1uUhgLDryc1yKRj8sufgj_2FtwBiXrKzsf6HQuglokJtP_-fqARnZLV5l4Ku8dSvnhnFK3epdrDPxmGRQNlYbCuHJ/s1600-h/059_59.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAksoeMiEOdt16TkrLPhjOT3lJZJV9jhhxZtLMetAyv2DVxJExxQj1uUhgLDryc1yKRj8sufgj_2FtwBiXrKzsf6HQuglokJtP_-fqARnZLV5l4Ku8dSvnhnFK3epdrDPxmGRQNlYbCuHJ/s400/059_59.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315512171803601490" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">The National park Service did though, and in 1980 The formations within the Wallula Gap were designated as a National Natural Landmark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">During their journey, Lewis and Clark described many things about the people and landscapes they encountered on their expedition. But they also misunderstood and missed many things...<img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifR1OU-1Bpo0DQFJFUBBuJ84lbjkiYLxrZDSCcEveiFz2yPRKjPFsPoiZMquoJlAJ0dTs0OQgEgQ7P99lZioJmIHNKk5dIar6qnCZCRL0kuo3L4AQXIsQ4TzEltDMV0eVMXLcFNFo3Of7v/s400/136_136.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315511000599864642" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /> In the upper Columbia region, Lewis and Clark stressed over the lack of firewood. They did not understand why salmon were dying. They bought many dogs for food. And, they noted a rock "resembling a hat" located down river from the Twin Sisters at the southern end of the Wallula Gap. <img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQxbi5bdQxKd3TXZC3AoNTpJaJaHorELqo5yjqdd7p_tIhT6RFI9RDioLrKpN_dEkfo971hFlFAkE-7hgbHS9E4p0TudCucobD5m4LiXFYu237yRfTeYAySN3IVYlXqYFUi0G_R2qvz8To/s400/146_146.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315510998926423602" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hat Rock, named by Captain Clark, was the "first" distinctive landmark passed by the Lewis and Clark Expedition on their journey down the Columbia. Hat Rock, located in Oregon, rises 70 feet above the desert sage terrain and is one of the few remaining landmark sites of the Lewis and Clark Expedition not underwater. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Clark wrote, <span style="color: #000099;">"... a rock in a Lard. resembling a hat just below a rapid at the lower Point of an Island in the Midl: of the river ..."</span> <span style="color: #000099;">[Clark, October 19, 1805].</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">The flood sculpted basalt rock does indeed resemble a simple looking, hat. Maybe Lewis and Clark skipped over the Twin Sister's in Washington because the feature, to them, didn't look like anything familiar to their imagination...?<img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz9VxzunMU6or-Zu7Cx18-mRXyAgaYn90qCabqbCBubiAEDzCCN-ac2Rl1JJWLQ8Mp9_aYgz94_AnO_SgK6gfcv13nEO5LUgPmg1wYRwHGBNB_qsnFx-vYvx5kyvZBA02OFfauJEGocDDD/s400/153_153.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315595597310077442" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /> For example, They named Chimney Rock in Nebraska, <em>Chimney Rock,</em> because it does look a lot like a chimney, and <em>Hat Rock</em> in Oregon, looks like a hat. Or maybe the rapids entering the Wallula Gap, during their time, were too intimidating, and the Lewis and Clark Expedition didn't have time to look up to discover the Twin Sisters? It "<em>could"</em> be that simple...couldn't it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Could huge floods on a Missoula Flood scale happen again? Although global warming may now be a serious concern, it is likely that long-term climate cycles will cause large ice sheets to return at some time in the distant future, and cataclysmic outburst floods will probably recur in this region...once again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Just outside the boundaries of Hat Rock State Park this rustic, long forgotton, cattle farm stands exhausted against the test of time. I wanted to capture it before it eventually dissappears.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">The Mouritsen Family were also out at Shore Acres. They sent me this video clip, (below), of one of their daughters, dwarfed by a crashing wave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No other place on earth puts on a show quite like Shore Acres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This day, I saw several friends of mine, and met a couple visiting from Colorado, a biologist from New Zealand, another biologist from East Canada, a lady from Coos Bay without her camera, my photo buddy...(in the white coat)...from Coquille, and I chatted with a lady from Medford who heard about the wave action going on and she drove a good four hours to get a chance to witness the action.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pictures of these powerful waves give us a visual of an amazing event. But pictures alone cannot do a Shore Acres Wave justice. The video below is a compilation of my video clips and set to music. Prepare to be captivated...</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The winter wave action found at Shore Acres was the inspiration behind the name I chose for my email address:</span> </div>
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Steven Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331388669815336221noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066618958117366133.post-78022769754215870172014-01-06T22:24:00.000-08:002014-02-27T22:20:39.933-08:00Badger of the Mountain - Washington<div align="center">
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<img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFF4YUBiS_qvPpqF0UGiQ7Z-K2eIHLsyv5OucQ2YnSJuKGN4A9TLuOwqntNk8CZR6c6B_Xoay2-Nt2FVIIDNCSnQ6q1abjbA6RVpWjsQFhK-fHhncPS6nlMfuIMQm7rqNsemF9sDo1aY6h/s400/DSC03282-1.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363016615613425330" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 118px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Badger Mountain is a popular mountain summit located in Benton County of eastern Washington state. The most prominent highpoint of the Tri-Cities, (Richland, Pasco, Kennewick), area...the mountain is passed by thousands of people daily. From the desert floor to the summit, Badger Mountain rises a little over 800 feet, and has an elevation of 1,579 feet above sea level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">It is estimated that 2,500 people climb the desert mountain every week...making Badger Mountain one of the most climbed peaks in Washington state.</span>
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<img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi84pgwYFeCu6uGTq6dN2gxzXFX353M56Lpjaz7MNuEe5S8bAm4wCEkI-VSfACSSgDjX39RrnemCpWBDYhdsnNEMoNC-lg1tUH_8TmnDBdpiuZdYvJYQNCYAEYWVr58ZJKgMLxwSRShpwuf/s400/DSC03272.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363017267119026434" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The 1.4 mile trail begins at this large boulder, called an "erratic". An erratic is a rock that differs from the type of rock in the area in which the rock rests. Erratic rocks are carried by glacier ice often hundreds of miles from the rocks origin.</span>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglUnHfJ_orvh-G9t364DmieskPTbThqJm1NNMpCOAlUCGHWV-iKRBcSax0NgCvHnqOhkX1oATZ8E5Q6KBDHbTMC105lfQJnMpI6TPqfEY4oXTf0U-kAtGyminXOyo3OFedyHN1nPSO01MS/s1600-h/DSC03264.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglUnHfJ_orvh-G9t364DmieskPTbThqJm1NNMpCOAlUCGHWV-iKRBcSax0NgCvHnqOhkX1oATZ8E5Q6KBDHbTMC105lfQJnMpI6TPqfEY4oXTf0U-kAtGyminXOyo3OFedyHN1nPSO01MS/s400/DSC03264.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363016606021414962" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The trail, to the top of Badger Mountain, has an moderate incline and makes for a great workout. In the photo above, the trail is the tan colored line at the top of the photo. Can you find my sister, niece, and nephew in the photo?</span>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">In the photo above, Joey is trying to recreate that historic flood.</span>
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