Happy Birthday!

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Chip Down
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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by Chip Down » December 18th, 2022, 10:16 pm

Some recent urban finds.
Irvington neighborhood, NE Portland.
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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by retired jerry » December 19th, 2022, 6:31 am

floating on top of the ice?

must have been recent

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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by Don Nelsen » December 19th, 2022, 12:30 pm

Chip Down wrote:
December 18th, 2022, 10:14 pm
Not a balloon, but plastic and filled with air, and found on a hike, so I'm saying it's close enough.
Interesting - looks like it's levitating. Did you use The Force to do that?
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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by retired jerry » February 16th, 2023, 7:29 am

I read that one of the "Chinese balloons" was a small, metallic balloon.

An aluminized Mylar party balloon?

Destined to fall into the wilderness where some hiker would find it and report it here?

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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by Don Nelsen » February 16th, 2023, 4:40 pm

After a long dry spell, I found two errant balloons today. Off-trail, Archer creek.

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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by Don Nelsen » February 21st, 2023, 10:30 am

Green Mt. north of Camas, Feb. 20th

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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by Chip Down » February 25th, 2023, 4:07 pm

Kudos to Don for finding one in a tree. Imagine how many must be out there, but mostly too high to see.

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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by adamschneider » May 13th, 2023, 1:24 pm

A sagebrush birthday celebration at Quilomene Wildlife Area (on Vantage Highway east of Ellensburg, WA):
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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by rubiks » May 18th, 2023, 4:43 pm

Found on Saturday 5/13, fifteen feet off of the Eagle Creek trail about a mile from Wahtum Lake. My biggest find yet, there must have been a dozen balloons all tied together. One of them was a "Happy Birthday!" balloon. I wish I had a better pic of the bunch.

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Packed them all out the next day.
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There's no need to be afraid.
Keep walking.

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Re: Happy Birthday!

Post by Chip Down » May 29th, 2023, 8:26 pm

it's been a while...
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