Ripley's "Portland Hikers Museum" - Believe it or Not!

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Re: Ripley's "Portland Hikers Museum" - Believe it or Not!

Post by BrianEdwards » May 3rd, 2012, 8:12 pm

Hit and miss engine layingin the Oak Grove Fork of the Clackamas

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Post by Roy » May 4th, 2012, 3:01 am

coast range tree i thought it looked like a naked rear end :)

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Post by Guy » May 5th, 2012, 9:04 am

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I was wondering where I had left that.
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Post by pyles_94 » May 6th, 2012, 1:00 pm

I've seen some cool ones, particularly in the Steens area last year/ SE oregon, but didn;t really take photos. Here is this:
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Re: Ripley's "Portland Hikers Museum" - Believe it or Not!

Post by forester » May 7th, 2012, 9:08 am

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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Re: Ripley's "Portland Hikers Museum" - Believe it or Not!

Post by Stevefromdodge » May 9th, 2012, 10:27 am

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:
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Re: Ripley's "Portland Hikers Museum" - Believe it or Not!

Post by mandrake » May 11th, 2012, 3:10 pm

Not the best photo, but a sign near the Gorge 400 TH in Dodson. Apparently they are serious! :-)
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Post by pyles_94 » May 15th, 2012, 10:55 pm

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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Post by CuriousGorgeGuide » May 18th, 2012, 10:17 pm

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.
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Re: Ripley's "Portland Hikers Museum" - Believe it or Not!

Post by pyles_94 » May 18th, 2012, 11:01 pm

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
Glad I know now! the first time I saw it, it really had me concerned!
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