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SILVER FALLS FALL
South Falls from the canyon floorI wish I could write poetry about the last warm, sunny days of autumn. I’d try to explain how, despite the morning’s cold, I’ve worked up a little sweat hiking to the...
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SHITTY CONDON POETRY
A thin, icy, cloud painted crystals overnight onto chilly windshieldsTill the morning’s faux summer-sun chased it into low placesWinter’s premature apparition melts in gullies, carved across sloping...
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WHAT'S LEFT?
The lodge at Multnomah Falls is open again — and that’s not fake news. But the lodge is about all that’s open. The route to the first viewpoint is screened off with a section of chain-link fence. This...
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Paired Couplets in Leavenworth or Quadruplets in Twelveworth
Snowman spokesman at Lake Wenatchee, WashingtonSagging, lumpy carrot-nose guideSweats, sublimes, way past his primeShows immortality is deniedExplains the sites in pantomimeLooking toward the West end...
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FEARFULLY MADE: Notes from the Field
EARTH DAY, APRIL 22nd, 10 AM @ REEDWOOD FRIENDS CHURCHBeauty from Chaos has been the working title for the presentation of images I’ve assembled over the last month, but the thing that sparked this...
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EVOLVING ROADS: Car camping with Kip and Rico (Part One)
I don’t know how it started for sure. Some intrepid band of Homo sapiens maybe walked over a land bridge from Russia or navigated the seas in functional watercraft. Maybe, at first, they followed the...
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EVOLVING ROADS: Car Camping with Kip and Rico (Part Two)
In our last episode, after appreciating the subtle nuances of Kip’s latest margarita recipe, we were treated to the intermittent unveiling of the Milky Way as patchwork clouds streamed over us to the...
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EVOLVING ROADS: Car Camping with Kip & Rico (Part Three)
From my supine perspective in the giant mosquito-net house, the snoring noise emanating from the S.E. corner is, by deduction, Kip, who must have migrated from his chair sometime before dawn. But it is...
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EVOLVING ROADS: Car Camping with Kip & Rico (Part Four)
It’s benign most of the time.You’re warm. Through your eyelids, you can sense sunlight gently streaming in the window. You’ve been talking to your dad, and though your dad died decades ago, part of you...
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DIGISCOPING: First Steps
What do you call it when you mix a digital camera with a spotting scope?The answer is digiscoping.Taking quality pictures from far away requires expensive lenses, lenses worth thousands of dollars.I...
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RED SUN RISES, WILLAMETTE FALLS
They say Native Americans carved petroglyphs at the base of Willamette Falls, an ancient fishing site. I’ve paddled up to the falls a couple of times to find the old markings, but always seem to miss...
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an instant appreciation
The East Portland Community Center is hosting a display of photography by Scott Dietz through the month of September.The images depict quiet moments of beauty in what are often familiar locales often...
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2019 CALENDAR INFO
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Padding My Resume with Dubious Skills: Antique-Fire-Hydrant-Gnome-Painter-Oner
I have a creative friend with a whimsical nature who is in the process of designing and building a dog park. There are ever expanding trails and benches and points of interest featuring eclectic...
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THE CASE OF THE LYING WATERFALL
I saw the comment in a social media forum - a private group for hikers. I was yet unaware that the group was a loose confederation of fairly opinionated if not quite warring factions. The comment...
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Setting Foot In Rivers: Umpqua River 2020
Evidence was piling up suggesting that the Lower Umpqua River was an excellent smallmouth bass fishery. Youtube videos showed happy fisherpeople struggling to hold up stringers laden with fat fish...
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Hawaii, Owyhee...uh, Böglands (Part One)
Ruby and Gemma celebrate the end of the world in 2020In August of 2021, as Summer rounded out the year with its characteristic spurt of heat, Oregon wildfires decided it was finally time to make their...
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Hawaii, Owyhee...uh, Böglands (Part Two)
It wasn’t until The Riley Store that I remembered I hadn’t brought my sleeping bag. That’s a pretty significant omission. It doesn’t inspire your team very much with your level of expertise and...
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Hawaii, Owyhee...uh, Böglands (Part Three)
The Montero lurches back and forth and sideways. Kip has become adept enough to accurately pick his way between the most aggressive rocks, but it is still a careful balancing act to maintain a speed...
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Hawaii, Owyhee...uh, Böglands (Part Four)
As near as I’ve been able to calculate, the red arrow points to our base of operations on the Owyhee River. This location is at the bottom end of about 48 miles of class II and III rapids - that is, if...
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Hawaii, Owyhee...uh, Böglands (Part Five)
There used to be a ‘reality’ show on television called Alone. The concept for the show was that the producers would select individuals to abandon in the great outdoors with limited supplies, each...
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Hawaii, Owyhee...uh, Böglands (Part Six)
Rico passes beyond the confluence of Dago Gulch and Leslie Gulch.Perched at the head of Leslie Gulch, I try to temper my anticipation. I also put on the best poker face I have at my disposal and try to...
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Hawaii, Owyhee...uh, Böglands (Part Seven)
Our eight-wheeled convoy skitters from the gulch and confidently negotiates a gossamer web of roads that evolved over time - shaped by topography, territory, and tepid human encroachment. This instant...
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Hawaii, Owyhee...uh, Böglands (The Final Chapter)
Photo Credit: KipThe light from another morning begins gently assaulting my eyelids, so my comatose body instinctively begins to burrow like a worm, forcing my face into a loose amalgam of swaddled-up...
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