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Ripley's "Portland Hikers Museum" - Believe it or Not!
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Clackamas River Waterfall Project - 95 Documented, 18 to go.
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coast range tree i thought it looked like a naked rear end
The downhill of the mind is harder than the uphill of the body. - Yuichiro Miura
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I was wondering where I had left that.
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I've seen some cool ones, particularly in the Steens area last year/ SE oregon, but didn;t really take photos. Here is this:
New Life by Jamey Pyles, on Flickr
New Life by Jamey Pyles, on Flickr
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I posted this in the acrophobia thread, but figured it belonged here, too. This has to be the most bizarre thing I've ever seen in the woods, without question.
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pyles_94 wrote:I've seen some cool ones, particularly in the Steens area last year/ SE oregon, but didn;t really take photos. Here is this:
New Life by Jamey Pyles, on Flickr
STUNNING image, Jamey
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Not the best photo, but a sign near the Gorge 400 TH in Dodson. Apparently they are serious!
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Thought of a weird one. Up on dry creek road that leads to the falls in Cascade locks... There is a creepy bomb shelter looking building - Half buried in the ground, no windows, locked doors, and to top it off, a sign that says "This area is under surveillance". All of this among a beautiful forest in the gorge... Very odd.
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Hey Jamey, that "bomb shelter" thing along Dry Creek is actually the holding tank for CL's water supply. Built in the late 30's when CL's population had boomed due to Bonneville dam construction. All the water works up at the falls were to direct the stream flow down to this holding tank to pressurize the flow into the city---the city's first muni water supply. The falls never ran dry...but the stream did.
This will get a couple of pages in my upcoming "Histories & Mysteries of the Gorge" guidebook.
cheers, scott
This will get a couple of pages in my upcoming "Histories & Mysteries of the Gorge" guidebook.
cheers, scott
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Glad I know now! the first time I saw it, it really had me concerned!CuriousGorgeGuide wrote:Hey Jamey, that "bomb shelter" thing along Dry Creek is actually the holding tank for CL's water supply. Built in the late 30's when CL's population had boomed due to Bonneville dam construction. All the water works up at the falls were to direct the stream flow down to this holding tank to pressurize the flow into the city---the city's first muni water supply. The falls never ran dry...but the stream did.
This will get a couple of pages in my upcoming "Histories & Mysteries of the Gorge" guidebook.
cheers, scott
Jamey Pyles