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by R11
July 23rd, 2014, 12:14 pm
Forum: General Hiking Topics
Topic: Assistance needed for tribute hike at Sisters
Replies: 29
Views: 7570

Re: Assistance needed for tribute hike at Sisters

I would say that a really nice day up there in the summer is definitely tee-shirt weather. Even this weekend the forecast is for temps reaching into the low 60's at the summit level: I like NOAA for a lot of locations, but on the big volcanoes it seems Mountain-Forecast tends to fine-tune a bit bet...
by R11
July 22nd, 2014, 12:36 pm
Forum: General Hiking Topics
Topic: Assistance needed for tribute hike at Sisters
Replies: 29
Views: 7570

Re: Assistance needed for tribute hike at Sisters

Clothes? No cotton! If you're climbing in the day, in summer, you're gonna roast on the way up. Arriving at the summit all sweaty, "chilling" on top takes on a quite literal meaning. Bring a dry shirt to change into. Maybe a fresh pair of (thick wool) dry socks, too. And a warm top layer (thin flee...
by R11
July 21st, 2014, 9:50 am
Forum: Let's see some ID
Topic: flowery shrub and some birdies up by Lake Stuart
Replies: 15
Views: 6070

Re: flowery shrub and some birdies up by Lake Stuart

Just for comparison sake, here's a pic of one of the Barrow's I watched at Horseshoe. This is a full pixel crop so it's fuzzy but you can see it's features pretty well. What complicated identification on these was that while they looked to be pretty much full grown size wise, they still had their no...
by R11
July 19th, 2014, 8:44 am
Forum: Let's see some ID
Topic: flowery shrub and some birdies up by Lake Stuart
Replies: 15
Views: 6070

Re: flowery shrub and some birdies up by Lake Stuart

miah66 wrote:It's interesting to note that most of the photos of the Barrow's goldeneye females I have seen have orange bills, but a few have black bills. I wonder why?
Bills.jpg
http://www.sibleyguides.com/2010/01/dis ... oldeneyes/


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by R11
July 18th, 2014, 1:33 pm
Forum: Let's see some ID
Topic: flowery shrub and some birdies up by Lake Stuart
Replies: 15
Views: 6070

Re: flowery shrub and some birdies up by Lake Stuart

Based on your new pictures of the duck I am going with either common or barrow's goldeneye. I think they're Barrow's. The last time I was at Horseshoe Lake five years ago I took a couple pics of some of these ducks as well because I was unfamiliar with them myself. When I got home I asked a friend ...
by R11
April 22nd, 2014, 5:19 pm
Forum: Hiking in the News
Topic: Benson Bridge: Now we know.
Replies: 12
Views: 4632

Re: Benson Bridge: Now we know.

Turns out the reason the bridge isn't yet repaired is because vandals. :roll: http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2014/03/vandals_stymie_repair_work_on.html If you actually read the article you posted you would find that nowhere in it does any agency talking head claim that v...
by R11
March 26th, 2014, 11:32 am
Forum: General Hiking Topics
Topic: ticket for hiking NP during Federal shutdown...
Replies: 129
Views: 25144

Re: ticket for hiking NP during Federal shutdown...

Wow... We have become such a sad, whiny, cry baby society where people complain about the most stupid and insignificant things, that it's totally pathetic and down right embarrassing. There used to be a little thing called "the greater good", and people gladly supported it. People understood that a ...
by R11
February 14th, 2014, 1:47 pm
Forum: General Hiking Topics
Topic: I-84 closed from Troutdale to Hood River due to rock slide
Replies: 16
Views: 5291

Re: I-84 closed from Troutdale to Hood River due to rock sli

But dumping all passenger car traffic onto 14 is clearly a bad idea, as evidenced by the fatal accident. Maybe I missed it. Apparently you have seen something that indicates the accident was caused by heavy traffic? Is that why the S2000 was on the wrong side of the road when it was hit by the truc...
by R11
February 14th, 2014, 12:54 pm
Forum: General Hiking Topics
Topic: I-84 closed from Troutdale to Hood River due to rock slide
Replies: 16
Views: 5291

Re: I-84 closed from Troutdale to Hood River due to rock sli

But dumping all passenger car traffic onto 14 is clearly a bad idea, as evidenced by the fatal accident. Maybe I missed it. Apparently you have seen something that indicates the accident was caused by heavy traffic? Is that why the S2000 was on the wrong side of the road when it was hit by the truc...
by R11
January 29th, 2014, 11:36 am
Forum: Let's see some ID
Topic: So what the heck is this on the Cloudcap Road?
Replies: 7
Views: 3197

Re: So what the heck is this on the Cloudcap Road?

Is there a snotel site there? Looks like a "precip can":

Image

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrc ... 2p2_046152

Oops, I see Payslee beat me to it while I was looking for a pic...


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