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<p>Ok, next up we're taking a peek at another very, very obscure Columbia Gorge waterfall. Mead Creek Falls is nearly 200' high, and it's a short stroll from one of the busiest trailheads in the Gorge and maybe the entire Northwest, but nobody's seen or heard of it, and we're going to go see why.</p>
<p>If you're on the old Columbia River Highway, heading east from Bridal Veil Falls, it's about half a mile to the intesection with Palmer Mill Road, a lightly-used, steep, narrow, sketchy gravel road that follows Bridal Veil Creek up into the hills. The intersection is paved, though, and officially doubles as overflow parking for the incredibly popular <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2019/02/angels-rest-devils-rest-loop.html">Angels Rest Trail</a>. Shortly before you get to the intersection, looking to your right, you might notice a small stream that's flowing partly in an ugly semi-corroded steel pipe. To your left, the creek continues downhill a bit and then vanishes underground. From there it flows in a pipe under the old Bridal Veil sawmill site and then I-84, and joins the Columbia in that undignified state. Seems pretty unpromising at first glance, but I was looking at a couple of state GIS maps recently (as one does) and noticed a couple of things. First, the <a href="#mead-lidar">state LIDAR map</a> (which I reference a lot here) showed the creek going over a 180'-200' sheer cliff a short distance upstream of Palmer Mill Road. And second, the <a href="#mead-fish">state map of fish migration barriers</a> had an entry for the ODOT-owned culvert carrying the creek under the old highway, and that map item said the creek was called "Mead Creek". It's not a USGS-approved official name, but at least one state agency has <a href="#mead-name">a name for the thing</a>, and that's official-ish enough as far as I'm concerned. So with those two bits of information in hand, it was time to go look for the mysterious Mead Creek Falls and take a picture or two to prove it exists.</p>
<p>So I hit the road on New Years Day. It was a surprisingly slow day at Angels Rest, so I was able to find a parking space in the overflow lot. From there, I walked up Palmer Mill Road for maybe 100' or so to the creek. I only saw the one creek, so it wasn't hard to find. Turning and facing upstream, there's a short side street or former driveway branching off just to the left (east) of the creek. (I think this was actually for the old mill town's <a href="#mead-works">primitive and disgusting</a> drinking water system.) I started walking that direction and soon noticed a boot path to the right, heading uphill and back toward the creek. So I followed that, but it sort of peters out before long when the route gets steeper, and after that it's just bushwhacking uphill folowing the creek, and hopping across it as needed, and trying to avoid blundering into thickets of devil's club if you can help it. After maybe 1000' of this (and 300 vertical feet, much of it on loosely-piled river rocks) I eventually came across an RV-sized boulder a short distance from the base of the falls, and didn't see an obvious way to get around it while staying safe and dry, and I figured the boulder was close enough for now, so I took another batch of photos and turned around.</p>
<p>I'd love to say the falls are a hidden gem, but I was frankly a bit underwhelmed. They're as tall as I expected, and the setting feels like a near-twin of Lautourell Falls, lichen-covered cliffs and all, and it <i>would</i> be a spectacular crown jewel of the Gorge, if only there was more water going over the falls. But as it is, it looks a bit dwarfed by its surroundings. The asterisk here is that I've only been there once so far, and I have no idea whether this is a typical rate of flow or not. The winter of 2023-24 had been unusually warm and dry up to that point, and maybe potential visitors just need to wait for the next big winter storm, or hold off and wait to visit in a non-El Niño winter. Or maybe invent a time machine and travel back a few centuries to when the upper creek was fed by dense old growth forests and global CO2 levels were more reasonable.</p>
<p>Or who knows -- I haven't really explored the sorta-plateau above the falls at all, but it's said to be a confusing labyrinth of old logging roads and unofficial trails, full of random items that random people have lost or dumped or built up there over the last century or two. (See for example a 2013 OregonHikers thread, <a href="https://www.oregonhikers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17788">"More Lost Trails in the Gorge"</a>.) As I understand it, presently there are abandoned cabins in varying states of collapse; a bullet-riddled 1941 Chrysler and parts of other discarded vehicles; a few surviving train parts from the logging railroad era; at least one vintage Jet Ski, supposedly; remains of abandoned pre-legalization weed farms, and it's anybody's guess what else. There's probably one of everything up there. Every last lost sock, an entire Sasquatch subdivision (complete with HOA), Jimmy Hoffa's discreet-but-luxurious witness protection villa, it's anyone's guess really. Maybe a cleverly concealed dam is still diverting most of the creek over to the Hoffa compound's vast Jacuzzi complex. Maybe all it would take to fix the falls would be an earnest Eagle Scout and a few helpers with big cans of WD-40. I mean, after the 111-year-old Hoffa finally kicks the bucket, obviously. I would personally not bet money in favor of this explanation, seeing as I just dreamed it up for this blog post, but stranger things have happened.</p>
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<div align='center'><h2>Footnote(s)</h2></div>
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<p><b>1. <a name="#mead-fish">fish barrier map</b></p>
<p>At some point the state transportation department either named the creek or recorded a name that locals were using, back when there was a company town built right around here. I don't know why, or when, or who it's named after, but I was poking around looking at the state's official <a href="https://nrimp.dfw.state.or.us/FHD_FPB_Viewer/index.htm">Oregon Fish Habitat Distribution and Barriers</a> map when I ran across it, and I'm pretty sure that's official enough for my purposes.</p>
<p>That map draws from a variety of sources and tries to catalog anything and everything that might impede, discourage, disempower, confound, bewilder, or annoy a migrating salmon on its way to or from the Pacific Ocean. Hydroelectric dams are on this list, obviously, plus things like waterfalls that are too tall for a salmon to leap over (which is about 5-6 feet), down to really mundane things like storm drains and culverts under streets, since it turns out salmon don't really like swimming through underground pipes. So the waterfall we're visiting is <i>not</i> on that map, but the creek passes under the old scenic highway in a long corrugated steel pipe that probably dates back to the old sawmill days, located <a href="https://nrimp.dfw.state.or.us/FHD_FPB_Viewer/index.html?marker=-122.17571254173556%2C45.55791391883047%2C&markertemplate=%7B%22title%22%3A%2220150401%22%2C%22longitude%22%3A-122.17571254173556%2C%22latitude%22%3A45.55791391883047%2C%22isIncludeShareUrl%22%3Atrue%7D&level=20%2C%2C%2C&markertemplate=%7B%22title%22%3A%2220150401%22%2C%22longitude%22%3A-122.17571254173556%2C%22latitude%22%3A45.55791391883047%2C%22isIncludeShareUrl%22%3Atrue%7D&level=18">here</a>, and that's where I noticed the name. (I suppose the falls aren't on the map on the idea that any salmon foolish enough to try running the series of tubes is not going to make it far enough for the falls to matter.)</p>
<p>That data probably originated with the Oregon Department of Transportation since they're in charge of things like culverts under state highways, and sure enough, the name appears in ODOT's
<a href="https://gis.odot.state.or.us/transgis/">TransGIS</a> system, and specifically in the department's <a href="https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?layers=2613829fbbec4828a94167aeba19804f&layerId=112">"DFMS Culverts (Advanced Inspection)"</a> map layer in ArcGIS.</p>
<p>There's also a pipe under Palmer Mill Road, but it's a county road and for the equivalent info for it you'll need the <a href="https://multco.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html">county's ArcGIS</a> and select the "<a href="https://services5.arcgis.com/x7DNZL1YqNQVNykA/ArcGIS/rest/services/Culverts_Transportation_View/FeatureServer">Culverts_Transportation_View</a>" layer. It doesn't list the creek name or tell us anything new, but since I went to all the trouble of finding the map I figured I'd include a link to it anyway.</p>
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<p><b>2. <a name="#mead-lidar">LIDAR stuff</b></p>
<p>I quickly realized Mead Creek corresponded to a place I'd noticed before <a href="https://gis.dogami.oregon.gov/maps/lidarviewer/?marker=-122.17180928153742%2C45.555771791284016%2C%2C%2C%2C&markertemplate=%7B%22title%22%3A416%2C%22longitude%22%3A-122.17180928153742%2C%22latitude%22%3A45.555771791284016%2C%22isIncludeShareUrl%22%3Atrue%7D&level=16%20">here</a> on the <a href="https://gis.dogami.oregon.gov/maps/lidarviewer/">state LIDAR map</a>: An obvious streambed intersecting a nearly 200', near-vertical rock wall, in the classic curved amphitheater shape that often indicates a major waterfall. And I have sort of a rule of thumb that if there's a creek or river or what have you named X, and there's one waterfall on it, and it doesn't already have a name, and you need to call it something, you don't need anyone's permission to call it X Falls. Two waterfalls? Upper X and Lower X Falls. Three? Upper, Middle, and Lower. And so far I haven't needed a default naming scheme for four or more. So at this point all that was left to do was to go test the "Mead Creek Falls" hypothesis and take a few photos to prove it's real. Same basic idea as Sasquatch hunting, really.</p>
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<p><b>3. <a name="#mead-works">Bridal Veil Water Works</b></p>
<p>While researching this post, I did learn one more fun fact about the little creek here. From the beginning of the mill and town in 1886 right up until April 1982, Mead Creek was the Bridal Veil area's sorry excuse for a drinking water supply. In April 1982 the US EPA finally got around to testing all of the local water systems across Portland-area counties, and immediately <a href="https://infoweb-newsbank-com.proxy.multcolib.org/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=EANX-NB&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A11A73E5827618330%2540EANX-NB-13244F1D8062AC29%25402445083-132392B7795FCA07%254024-132392B7795FCA07%2540/hlterms%3A%2522bridal%2520veil%2522%2520well">issued a boil water notice</a> for the Bridal Veil system, to remain in effect until the company got its act together and complied with federal clean water standards. That Oregonian article primly blamed this on "elevated bacterial levels", while the <a href="https://infoweb-newsbank-com.proxy.multcolib.org/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AMNEWS&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A130FB78394A04B53%2540EANX-NB-16EF900947E9304C%25402445082-16EF2DE298BC32C5%25408-16EF2DE298BC32C5%2540/hlterms%3A%2522Bridal%2520Veil%2522%2520%2522water%2520supply%2522">Oregon Journal story</a> about the situation explained matters without the Oregonian's squeamish tiptoeing around:</p>
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Bridal Veil takes its water from a surface water source and normally does not treat the water in any way...
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<br/>EPA environmental engineer Jean Knight said evidence of fecal material was found in the water supply at Bridal Veil, which only has a “pipe coming out of a stream” for its water supply, to which chlorine is occasionally added.
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<br/>“Some people said they’d been ill, but most hadn’t gone to a physician to have it confirmed,” she said.
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<p>The Journal piece didn't quite connect all the dots either, namely that the town's raw sewage went back into the same creek the water was drawn from, and they figured this was fine because the water intake was uphill from all the sewage stuff.</p>
<p>Recall that this came about midway through Ronald Reagan's first term, during the height of deregulation mania. Reagan wanted to abolish the whole agency and repeal the laws it enforced, and he packed it with ideologues who did everything they could to sabotage the agency's work. Their refusal to enforce rules and regulations and basic laws of the land led to repeated national scandals. So the fact that <i>they</i> had their hair on fire about the Bridal Veil water system really ought to tell you something.</p>
<p>There had been a few clues that the system was not exactly a paragon of modern 20th century sanitation. Way back in June 1960, the Multnomah County health department <a href="https://infoweb-newsbank-com.proxy.multcolib.org/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AMNEWS&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A130FB78394A04B53%2540EANX-NB-16E7573FF517F78F%25402437112-16E6102BCD838576%25401-16E6102BCD838576%2540/hlterms%3A%2522Bridal%2520Veil%2522%2520%2522water%2520supply%2522">issued a temporary no-swimming order</a> for the lagoon at Rooster Rock due to high levels of sewage germs detected there. One sample tested at nearly three times the level considered dangerous. Multnomah County's Health Officer offered a shifting set of explanations for this situation; first he claimed it was just natural seasonal variation in the river's normal bacteria levels, nothing to see here, folks. The Oregon Journal noted, however, that water samples taken further upstream at Bonneville Dam did not show the same elevated levels.</p>
<p>Investigators had even observed untreated raw sewage flowing into the Columbia a mile and a half upstream and already knew its origin, and they suggested that it might be part of the problem. But no, the county health guy now insisted the Vista House restrooms were the real source. Asked to explain the elevated microbe counts found at the river beaches at Rooster Rock, he explained that he didn't put a lot of stock in microbe counts and preferred to rely on his own personal intuition as to what the real problem was, thank you very much. It was pretty obvious at that point that he was never going to point any fingers at Bridal Veil, no matter what. Oddly enough, this episode happened just a couple of weeks after the Kraft corporation announced the <a href="https://infoweb-newsbank-com.proxy.multcolib.org/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AMNEWS&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A130FB78394A04B53%2540EANX-NB-16E759C702B3A8E8%25402437093-16E7563428ECD525%254012-16E7563428ECD525%2540/hlterms%3A%2522Bridal%2520Veil%2522%2520Kraft">impending closure of the mill</a>. A health officer with better political instincts would have just said he's studying the problem, and then taken credit for the drop in bacteria after the mill closed.</p>
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<p><b>4. <a name="#mead-1990">1990 study</a></b></p>
<p>Jumping forward to the post-sawmill era, the creek and the water supply problem came up briefly in a couple of studies. First up is an April 1990 <a href="https://www.deq.state.or.us/Webdocs/Controls/Output/PdfHandler.ashx?p=5ce66691-2eb1-4532-906c-118df9a9dbb1.pdf&s=3280_prelim_si_04-04-1990.pdf">"preliminary" study</a> on the current state of the mill site, due to the impending sale to the Trust for Public Land. The Mead Creek cameo is on page 9 of the study:</p>
<blockquote><i>At the time of the Site Examination no olfactory evidence was observed which indicated that the woodlands are currently contaminated with hazardous materials. A visual inspection revealed fifteen to twenty empty one gallon bleach containers near an empty water tank (refer to Figure 1 for location). According to Pat McEllreath, current mill site manager, prior to the installation of a water well in 1982 the town water supply required treatment. It is likely that these bleach containers are left over from the water treatment process.</i></blockquote>
<p>Figure 1 is on page 14 of the linked doc, and shows little squares labeled "water tank" and "well and pumphouse" along Palmer Mill Road. I assume these were removed during the 90s sometime along with the old mill and associated mill houses. Most likely the well site was chosen so they could plug it into the existing water system with the least effort. The pile of discarded bleach bottles tells me the local public works guy was all about least-effort approaches.</p>
<p>An obscure Forest Service map that covers a lot of land ownership details has a bit more info on the <a href="https://usfs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a6a32f0501754fdc8932b1c0090a1d83&marker=-122.17355844467143%2C45.55706457404543%2C%2C%2C%2C&markertemplate=%7B%22title%22%3A%22THE%20TRUST%20FOR%20PUBLIC%20LAND%22%2C%22longitude%22%3A-122.17355844467143%2C%22latitude%22%3A45.55706457404543%2C%22isIncludeShareUrl%22%3Atrue%7D&level=16">old mill site</a>. If I'm reading things right, the Trust continues to hang onto a pre-existing easement for the water system dating back to April 1937 (the year the mill <a href="https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/ghost/Pages/logging-bridal-veil.aspx">was sold and reopened</a> to make Kraft cheese boxes). The description of it makes it sound very elaborate, though a lot of it probably never made it past the wishful thinking phase.</p>
<blockquote><i>Easement for the use of a water system in favor of adjacent property owners. Consists of flumes, tanks and pipelines for domestic water use, a dam and diversion point for water power, and flumes, tanks and pipelines for fire protection.</i></blockquote>
<p>The 1990 study was labeled preliminary because nobody had looked around yet for contaminated soil, and there was no way to estimate even a rough ballpark figure for any future plans without first knowing what shape the local dirt was in. So they recommended doing that as the next logical step. As far as I know this still hasn't happened, because looking for problems you can't afford to fix is always a tough sell, in any kind of organization.</p>
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<p>5. <b><a name="#mead-1992">1992 historic structure inventory</a></b></p>
<p>After the sale, it became clear there was an imminent nature vs historic preservation fight. The new owners commissioned a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170506180746/https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/OHC/docs/multnomah_bridalveil_HistoricalAndArchitecturalEvaluation.pdf">study</a> involving several local architects and historians, basically explaining that the surviving buildings in town were not significant individually, and as a group they weren't a good example of a company mill town, and either way just about everything was in extremely poor condition and there was literally nothing worth saving about the place. A map of the town on page 16 shows all the structures in town, including the water tower and well pumphouse, but the study didn't discuss them any further. The most interesting part is that the study includes photos of the exteriors and in many cases interiors of these buildings, and a lot of these houses were kind of cute. And I know you can't judge the condition of an old building just from photos, but a lot of them looked fixable. This study came just a few years before everybody decided Craftsman bungalows were cool again, and who knows, maybe the preservation battle would have played out differently if that had happened a little sooner. However this was also happening right in the middle of the spotted owl wars, and removing all traces of the timber industry may have felt like a moral imperative at that point.</p>
<p>Around the same time, another consultant produced a <a href="https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/OHC/docs/multnomah_bridalveil_historiccontext.pdf">287-page report</a> concerning the history of the mill and the town. I've only skimmed it so far but it seems a bit more evenhanded than that architecture study.</p>
<p>Also in 1992, management of the still-brand-new National Scenic Area issued the unit's first <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vTB8NLwBB_cC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false">Management Plan</a>, and at that point the vision for the Bridal Veil area was meant to be about historic preservation, which obviously is not how it turned out in the end.</p>
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<p>6. <b><a name="#mead-2002">2002 study</a></b></p>
<p>In 2002 a group was paid to do another round of quick preliminary work, this time they had a couple of months to dream up a <a href="https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1082&context=usp_murp">preliminary restoration plan</a> for the site. In it, we learn that the proposed followup work in the 1990 doc had not yet happened, and future planning of the kind they were tasked with was fairly stymied due to still not knowing basic stuff like how much topsoil you might need to dispose of as part of any cleanup effort. And this isn't even considered a high risk site for toxic chemicals, seeing as cutting a large tree up into 2x4s does not actually involve a lot of chemicals. (Unless you're making the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_preservation">pressure-treated stuff</a>, obviously.) The Mead Creek cameo doesn't mention the creek by name:</p>
<blockquote><i>The natural course of the small stream on the east end of the property appears to have been altered. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) topographic contour maps indicate a westerly course for the stream. This is supported by the site analysis. The stream above Palmer Mill Road south of the site appears to follow a historic bed, but below the road it is channeled in a metal trough. At the point where the stream crosses the Historic Columbia River Highway, it enters an enclosed culvert. It reemerges on the north side of this road where it drops several feet to a stream bed that does not follow the natural topographic contours. Evidence of activities to control and maintain this bed can be found along an unpaved road, in the southern slopes of the site. </i></blockquote>
<p>Maybe this diversion is why the ugly pipe was left in place, to make sure the creek doesn't revert to its original course without permission. Later on, the study suggests daylighting the creek through the old mill site, if it turns out to be feasible, so imagine they'd get rid of the remaining piping at that point too. That was one of the study's few concrete suggestions, along with putting in an official trail or two connecting the Angels Rest and Bridal Veil trailheads, and adding ADA-compliant access to Bridal Veil Falls. The study didn't propose doing anything with Mead Creek Falls; it's quite possible the authors didn't realize it existed.</p>
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<p><b>7. <a name="#mead-2015">2015 master plan</a></b> for state parks in the Gorge.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/PRP/Documents/PLA-Adopted-Gorge-2015-Ch-1-6.pdf">Part 1</a> is mostly an inventory of the current park portfolio and the highlights and ongoing maintenance needs of each, and results from a public opinion survey. Eventually they get around to summarizing the suggestions they got from the general public. Including some variants on finally building out Trail 400 from Troutdale out to the current "mile 0" where the Angels Rest trail starts. Some oldtimer or amateur historian suggested "George Joseph and Larch Mountain", which was a doable hike a century ago. You would start by doing the trail to Upper Latourell Falls, then taking a now-lost route that went to the top of those falls and then continued upstream beside Latourell Creek. Eventually you'd exit the state park and follow the creek through farm country for a couple of miles and then end up on <a href="https://www.oregonhikers.org/field_guide/Pepper_Mountain_Hike">Pepper Mountain</a>. You could turn around there, which was the usual practice, or go down the other side of Pepper Mountain and find County Roads 458 and 550, which would get you within bushwhacking distance of the summit of Larch Mountain. And from there, the Larch Mountain Trail would get you back downhill to Multnomah Falls, or you could just go back the way you came. I just sort of assume that any hike that involves traipsing across private farm or timberland is a nonstarter in 2024. I have not actually gone around ringing doorbells and asking residents if it's ok, but I suspect even that wouldn't go over very well these days.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/PRP/Documents/PLA-Adopted-Gorge-2015-Ch-7-13.pdf">Part 2</a> discusses some proposals for the future. One, on page 182, is a new twist on the long-proposed trail between Angels Rest & Bridal Veil Falls, which ought to be a no-brainer but somehow nobody can figure out how to make it happen. Instead of taking a direct, short, level route from one to the other, and maybe reusing one of the old roadbeds in the area, it would follow Bridal Veil Creek upstream a bit and then head uphill, apparently crossing Mead Creek somewhere upstream of the falls, and joining the Angels Rest Trail partway up. Looking more closely, I think the main driving factor of that particular route is that it stays on Oregon State Parks land the whole way, even though one of the main bullet points on the idea was "Requires partnership with USFS" (which kind of reads like they weren't looking forward to that part, for whatever reason. Or maybe I'm reading too much into that.) This reads like a scaled-back version of the 2012 proposal for a <a href="https://wyeastblog.org/2012/01/15/proposal-bridal-veil-canyon-trail/">Bridal Veil Canyon Trail</a>, which would create public access to rarely-seen Middle and Upper Bridal Veil Falls and cut over Angels Rest after that, making for a longer route.</p>
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<p>8. <a name="#mead-name"><b>Mead who? Mead what?</b></a></p>
<p>Other than the ODOT connection I mentioned earlier, there are exactly zero search engine or Oregonian database results for the creek name. Closest possibility (but still a real stretch) that I ran across dates to <a href="https://infoweb-newsbank-com.proxy.multcolib.org/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=EANX-NB&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A11A73E5827618330%2540EANX-NB-132A8AB6DD991FFB%25402446333-132A7C4161352C22%254028-132A7C4161352C22%2540/hlterms%3A%2522Bridal%2520Veil%2522%2520Mead">September 1985</a> and the filming of <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=savkuEQKz8Q">Short Circuit</a></i>. Apparently the stretch of HCRH between Bridal Veil and Crown Point was a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t64F4zGtudM">filming location</a>, and the robot star of the film was designed by the legendary Syd Mead. He's probably best known for his work on <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eogpIG53Cis">Blade Runner</a></i>, and for designing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ykc3jhoGSs">V'Ger</a> for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). It's a fun theory but I wouldn't bet any money on it. Another possibility is that it's not a surname at all; maybe someone was trying to explain what color the creek was, downstream of the gentle townsfolk of Bridal Veil back in the day. And if so: Ewwwwww!!!</p>
</small>brx0http://www.blogger.com/profile/17988772767222837140noreply@blogger.com043190 SE Deverell Rd, Corbett, OR 97019, USA45.5039198 -122.219812345.4557922560094 -122.28847685078125 45.552047343990594 -122.15114774921875tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029943.post-1655039859197676902024-01-31T18:04:00.000-08:002024-01-31T18:04:49.039-08:00Rockwood Sunrise<iframe src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/atul666/49139092406/in/set-72157712625559027/player/" width="700" height="700" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
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<p>Next up, here's a slideshow of <i><a href="http://dancorson.com/rockwood-sunrise">Rockwood Sunrise</a></i>, the large sorta-triumphal arch structure at the Rockwood MAX station. This was created by Seattle artist <a href="http://dancorson.com/">Dan Corson</a>, who also did <i><a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2014/10/mercurial-sky.html">Mercurial Sky</a></i> (the lightshow for the Director Park canopy, downtown Portland), and <i><a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2013/06/nepenthes.html">Nepenthes</a></i>, the series of giant illuminated pitcher plants along SW Davis in Old Town. I liked both of those, and I think I like this too. Not quite enough to make any further pilgrimages out to Rockwood just to see it again, but hey.</p>
<p>TriMet's <a href="https://trimet.org/publicart/bluelineeast.htm">Blue Line art guide</a> describes it:</p>
<ul>
<li>Tall, brightly painted steel rays constitute a highly visible landmark for the station and a beacon of civic pride for the community</li>
<li>Imagery was inspired by the ferris wheel — once an annual feature in Rockwood, the bold colors of the Hispanic culture, and the universal symbolism of the sunrise</li>
<li>Translucent tips of the rays illuminate as the trains arrive and depart the station</li>
<li>Sunrise image also appears in the shelter glass pattern designed by Corson</li>
</ul>
<p>This was <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2011/05/gresham_trimets_new_rockwood_m.html">added</a> back in 2011, along with <i><a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2018/10/civic-drive-iris.html">Civic Drive Iris</a></i> further east, after the City of Gresham and TriMet scored some much-needed urban renewal money and (as usual) had to spend some of it on Art somewhere. And it just so happened that the eastside MAX Blue Line -- the original 1980s MAX line -- had somehow been built without Whimsical Public Art at each station, and this obviously needed to be remedied somehow someday. So retrofitting existing MAX stations with new art became a thing, killing two birds with one stainless steel whatzit.</p>
<p>The urban renewal effort was precipitated by the <a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2002/11/18/daily61.html">2003 closure</a> of the old <a href="https://www.stumptownblogger.com/2019/08/rockwood-fred-meyer.html">Rockwood Fred Meyer</a> store<a href="#rockwood-sunrise-fred-closed"><super>[1]</super></a>. The store sat empty for a number of years after the closure and it quickly became clear the store had been a regional retail tentpole for the surrounding area. Other businesses closed. Crime was up, pedestrian traffic was way down. Gresham is close enough to Portland that planners still aspire to be good urbanists, and they've probably seen all the literature about declining inner-ring suburbs and wanted to ward off that outcome. The key thing to know is that closed/abandoned big box stores are really hard to reuse<a href="#rockwood-sunrise-bigbox"><super>[2]</super></a>. The buildings are just too big for most retailers to make use of, and difficult to subdivide, and luring a replacement big box retailer is harder than you might think because many of them really want to use standard floorplans, with standard store fixtures & displays that look exactly the same in every store. Then you can just order a thousand of those and use them worldwide, and not have to customize things based on what your store was before it was yours. And long story short, Gresham concluded that reusing an old Fred Meyer building was a nonstarter, and it was a great chance to build something denser and more urban, seeing as it's right next to a MAX station.</p>
<p>Gresham's <a href="https://greshamoregon.gov/Gresham-Redevelopment-Commission/">Redevelopment Commission</a> called the project "<a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2019/05/greshams-long-planned-rockwood-rising-development-gets-underway.html">Rockwood</a> <a href="https://www.architectmagazine.com/project-gallery/rockwood-rising">Rising</a>" for a while, but "<a href="https://downtownrockwood.com/">Downtown</a> <a href="https://greshamoregon.gov/Downtown-Rockwood/%20">Rockwood</a>".</p>
<p>A 2009 blog post from the Wilkes East Neigborhood Association (blog last updated in 2013) was <a href="http://www.wilkeseastna.org/node/381">disappointed</a> at lack of progress redeveloping the site, and yeah, the area hasn't completely filled in with new construction, and there's no way to know what the area would be like if there was still just a vacant Fred Meyer there, now abandoned for over two decades. But it's hard to imagine the area would be better off that way.</p>
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<div align='center'>Footnotes</div>
<small>
<p><a name="rockwood-sunrise-fred-closed">1.</a>
Fred Meyer stores don't close very often in the Portland area. There was an original and very small store downtown that closed sometime in the 70s or 80s, after decades where every Fred Meyer ad ended with someone muttering "Not Available at 6th and Alder" as quickly as possible. Then out on the urban periphery they closed a few stores in less-affluent areas.</p>
<p>The Walnut Park store that <a href="https://www.groceteria.ca/board/viewtopic.php?t=453&sid=29ad541c01f1605a227e130056009c21">closed in 1989</a>, store eventually became home to Portland Police North Precinct. Boys & Girls Club just south of there, and Transition Projects just across MLK.</p>
<p>82nd & Foster <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/window-shop/2017/12/se_portland_fred_meyer_closing.html">closed in 2017</a> and quickly <a href="https://www.thebeenews.com/lifestyle/features/huge-asian-supermarket-opens-in-former-foster-road-fred-meyer/article_42b94b55-2882-5d63-bb69-c14f362f2a18.html">transformed</a> into the Emmert International Marketplace mall, <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/06/fb439d1ffb4592/first-look-shun-fat-supermarket-opens-friday-in-former-se-portland-fred-meyer.html">anchored</a> by a large <a href="https://shunfatsupermarket.com/">Shun Fat</a> grocery store.</p>
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<p><a name="rockwood-sunrise-bigbox">2.</a> References on the vacant big-box problem below. The most egregious example of this I've seen was in the Deep South in the late 90s, around when Wal-Mart was transitioning chain-wide to newer and much larger Super Wal-Mart stores. Land was cheap and there were usually no pesky land use or zoning laws to worry about, so the cheapest possible approach was usually to build fresh on ex-farmland really far from town, and just walk away from the old stores that were being replaced. And when every business and every developer does this in a headlong rush, you get a sort of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrea_tridentata">creosote bush</a> development pattern, where the "good part of town" is an ever-expanding ring (for small values of "ever") rushing outward as fast as it can, abandoning previous generations of perfectly good infrastructure after a few short years of being the hot new area. Eventually Georgia realized it couldn't afford to build the distant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Perimeter">Outer</a> <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/local/outer-perimeter-dreams-eventually-ended/HxqCiPkzF2XZfMWcQ50acO/">Perimeter</a> freeway that developers fantasized about, which would have enabled a vast sprawl zone larger than several of the smaller European countries. But the newcomers are still coming and have to go somewhere; I'm just not sure how they're making it work if they aren't building more freeways now. Anyway:</p>
<ul>
<li>Next City: <a href="https://nextcity.org/features/how-abandoned-big-box-stores-can-bring-communities-together">"How Abandoned Big-Box Stores Can Bring Communities Together"</a></li>
<li>Community Playmaker: <a href="https://communityplaymaker.com/discoveries/big-box-redevelopment-opportunities-in-old-malls/">Big Box Redevelopment: Opportunities In Old Malls</a></li>
<li>Institute for Local Self-Reliance: <a href="https://ilsr.org/rule/preventing-vacant-boxes/">"Preventing Dark Malls & Vacant Big Boxes"</a></li>
<li>Strong Towns: <a href="https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/6/8/mds2021-an-empty-big-box-store-is-a-lesson-in-commercial-density">"An Empty Big-Box Store Is a Lesson In 'Commercial Density'"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.dcgstrategies.com/blog/news-events/the-big-box-store-dilemma-what-to-do-when-a-large-retailer-closes/">The Big-Box Store Dilemma: What to Do When a Large Retailer Closes</a></li>
</ul>
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<p>Yet another installment of the annual New Year's Eve tradition. It's hard to believe he turned 13(!) this year. For that matter, this humble blog turned 18 a couple of weeks ago, and -- true to 2023 form -- I couldn't quite put a post together about the semi-big occasion. My hope for 2024 is to finish a few more half-completed posts than I did in 2023, but please note that I only said "hope" and not "goal", much less "binding contract". So we'll just have to wait and see how that turns out.</p>
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brx0http://www.blogger.com/profile/17988772767222837140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029943.post-12024741057644227052023-12-27T19:57:00.000-08:002023-12-27T19:57:12.468-08:00central eastside murals, october 2023<iframe src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/atul666/53244778286/in/set-72177720313311609/player/" width="700" height="700" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
<p>Here's a slideshow of various new and new-ish murals around Portland's Central Eastside as of a couple of months ago. My mom was in town back in October, and she had somehow figured out that a.) outdoor murals are kind of a big deal here, and b.) I knew a thing or two about the phenomenon and might be up for playing tour guide. So here are some photos I took that day. Also, various food carts and twee little shops were visited in between all the art appreciation, and a fully artisanal, small-batch Central Eastside tourist experience was had by all that day, minus the beer part, since mom never really got into that.</p>
<p>Most of these were taken at either the Electric Blocks area near OMSI, or a previously-nondescript warehouse building at SE 8th & Alder. The outside of that warehouse has been sort of divvied up, with various artists each getting a panel of the exterior to work with. If I was really focused on this as a project like I was for a while back in the 2010s, I'd probably give each panel its own post and link to each artist's Instagram and find other work that they've done. But this year I've had enough trouble just maintaining the one-post-per-month bare minimum and that sounded like an excessive amount of work (unpaid (and unrequested) volunteer work, at that) to take on right now, so that stuff is left as an exercise for the reader. I did at least take photos of artists' signatures where possible, and those are typically Instagram IDs these days, so you at least have that as a starting point if you want to learn more about a particular mural.</p>
brx0http://www.blogger.com/profile/17988772767222837140noreply@blogger.com0750 SW Alder St, Portland, OR 97205, USA45.5200553 -122.680078417.209821463821157 -157.8363284 73.830289136178848 -87.5238284tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029943.post-3557238558823116362023-11-30T19:28:00.000-08:002023-11-30T19:36:57.523-08:00Forest Road NF-1500-150, Larch Mountain<iframe src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/atul666/51520238502/in/set-72157719924806087/player/" width="700" height="700" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
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<p>Back during the height of pandemic-related social distancing, I had a sort of mini-project going to try to find places where I could get outside and go for a hike or at least a walk without encountering any other human beings, and -- ideally -- doing this without having to drive for hours and hours first. At one point I realized that old logging roads were great for this, because they usually don't go anywhere very interesting (so there isn't much to attract crowds), and they stay open and navigable without a lot of foot traffic (due to densely packed soil left over from the logging days). A side benefit to this is that you aren't fighting your way through brush all the time, which is nice during the height of tick and poison oak season. Ok, sure, having no-grow zones snaking through your forest and persisting for decades is on the whole bad for the environment, but... well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.</p>
<p>That brings us to the subject of today's adventure, an obscure Forest Service road named <a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/ivm/index.html?minx=-13594928.117298463&miny=5705550.892242201&maxx=-13588048.784752807&maxy=5708918.898801012&exploremenu=no">NF 1500-150</a>, which is one of several obscure Forest Service roads that branch off to the south from Larch Mtn. Road on its way to the summit. I had moderate hopes for this one, as in, it might at least have a decent view given its location near the top of the mountain. The National Scenic Area boundary -- which largely tracks Larch Mountain Road in this area, actually jogs south and west a bit more just to incorporate the land around road 1500-150. I had never heard of this being an interesting place, but it seemed at least possible that it might be a hidden gem waiting to be rediscovered. That occasionally works, so I figured I had to check it out. But no such luck this time. It's a short stroll through a dense young-ish replanted forest, along what is obviously an old logging road. And then it just gets to the end of the old clear cut and stops, and all you can do is turn around and go back. There aren't even any side trails to explore.</p>
<p>Maybe they figured nobody would object to this area being inside the boundary, since it had just been logged and adding it to the Scenic Area would pad out the total acreage without impacting the timber industry significantly. I don't know whether there was once a nice view looking west to Portland at the time, but if so they didn't add it to the Scenic Area's list of specific protected views and the forest has since grown back enough that there's nothing much to see here while strolling through the forest.</p>
<p>I couldn't find any info online about the old clearcut operation. The Forest Service has a vast amount of GIS data online including all sorts of really esoteric stuff, but if they have any public records online about historical timber sales I have yet to come across it. It's not something I would need on a daily basis but it would've come in handy here. I did find an alternative, though: <a href="https://www.historicaerials.com/viewer">This company</a> sells hardcopy aerial photos taken over the last century or so, and to shop for what you need they have online maps with heavily watermarked versions of these images. So looking at historical photos of this spot gives us a rough timeline for what happened here:</p>
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<li><a href="https://www.historicaerials.com/location/45.541891774990304/-122.10338804158533/1953/15">1953</a>: No clearcut. If anything, the forest looked older and taller than the surrounding area.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.historicaerials.com/location/45.54318732388863/-122.1032787798727/1973/15">1973</a>: The initial phase of the clearcut was visible, which was a square-ish area maybe halfway down the road. Evidently they started in the center and cut outward from there. I don't know whether this is a common pattern with clearcuts, or something specific to this place.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.historicaerials.com/location/45.53917879943621/-122.1036046803504/1981/15">1981</a>: They expanded the cut to the south by this point.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.historicaerials.com/location/45.53917879943621/-122.1036046803504/1993/15">1993</a>: After 1981, the cut expanded further, this time to the north and to the sides. I assume all of that happened prior to the present-day National Scenic Area being created in 1986, since that generally prohibits logging, at least where anyone might see it. Maybe this place was grandfathered in as a cut already in progress. In any case you can see kind of a donut pattern as the early pre-1973 cut area had already filled back in a bit.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.historicaerials.com/location/45.53917879943621/-122.1036046803504/2020/15">2020</a>: At this point the forest has grown back a lot, though most trees are still shorter than surrounding forest, and it still doesn't resemble a natural forest.</li>
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<p>The road branches off at an altitude of nearly 3200', and descends to about 3070', around 800 feet below the summit but still higher than any of the surrounding hills nearby, so I think the clearcuts would've been very visible while it was happening. Maybe the clearcuts were enough of an eyesore that they added the cut area to the Scenic Area boundary just to make sure it wouldn't happen again. Meaning it contributes to the Scenic Area by being scenic from a distance, not because it's a scenic place to visit and see close up. That's my current theory, anyway; if anyone really needs an answer to this, you might need to check the Congressional Record, and the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/">searchable online form of it</a> only goes back to 1995 or so, so instead you'll need to find a library that has it in traditional hardcopy form covering the mid-1980s. (There are limited records going back further, so you can find stuff like subcommittee <a href="https://congressional-proquest-com.proxy.multcolib.org/congressional/result/congressional/congdocumentview?accountid=37296&groupid=65747&parmId=18B88B805AB&rsId=18B88B7350F">hearing</a> <a href="https://congressional-proquest-com.proxy.multcolib.org/congressional/result/congressional/congdocumentview?accountid=37296&groupid=65747&parmId=18B88B81586&rsId=18B88B7350F">summaries</a>, indicating who testified but not what they said. Which is a start, I guess.) And if that approach doesn't pan out, maybe try calling or writing to people who were Congressional staffers or lobbyists back then and see if anyone remembers. I've switched to second-person here because I'm not <i>quite</i> curious enough to try that myself. I really, really dislike cold-calling people on the phone, for one thing.</p>
<p>An unfortunate thing about the area is the way it was replanted. Evidently nobody told the logging companies that the land here would be protected for forever after once they were done logging it, so the replanting was done in the usual densely packed mono-crop style, like a Christmas tree farm instead of something a bit more natural. And maybe it's just me, but I think tree farms are inherently creepy. They're a kind of <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LiminalSpace/">liminal</a> <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/11/liminal-space-internet-aesthetic/671945/">space</a>, positioned in a hazy spot somewhere along the civilization vs wilderness boundary, and subtle enough that you may not realize what felt wrong about the place until later. It somehow feels like an urban exploration environment, but one made entirely of trees, if that makes any sense. I gather this is a common feeling <a href="https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2023/07/23/the-pinelands-also-known-as-new-jerseys-mafia-burials-grounds/">around the New Jersey Pinelands</a>, driven by both fact and fiction. Ok, you <i>probably</i> won't stumble into a mob whacking here and suddenly have to go into witness protection or whatever, and there's no science to back up the idea that a place can just have inherently "bad vibes", if you can even define that. But the place still just felt <i>off</i> somehow, and I didn't feel like sticking around long to figure out why.</p>
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<p>Here are a few photos of Oregon City's <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/j4CsRhxABFjCAAu57">Coffee Creek Falls</a>, which is conveniently located right on South End Road, literally right next to the road, a bit south and uphill from downtown Oregon City. Let's get the bad news out of the way first: There is no actual coffee here. Not even decaf. It's just plain old water like every other creek out there. The same is true of the more famous Coffee Creek down in Wilsonville, the one with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_Creek_Correctional_Facility">womens' prison</a> named after it. No caffeine in that creek either. Same goes for the <a href="https://thediggings.com/mines/17545">Coffee</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sXFs_hiHIo">Creek</a> in Douglas County, which was the site of a brief gold rush in the 1850s. Based on a bit of light googling there are probably dozens of Coffee Creeks scattered around the state, possibly because the water was a bit muddy when someone named it and it reminded them of terrible pioneer-era coffee. That or people just thought about coffee constantly, which is understandable. Still, the name kind of gets your hopes up and then dashes them, and maybe once the geographic naming authorities finish up renaming all the places currently named with racial or religious slurs, after that they can start in on renaming non-caffeinated places and things named after coffee, on the grounds of false advertising. That or figure out how to add caffeine to these creeks and lakes and whatnot, and I have no idea how that would work.</p>
<p>You might have guessed, correctly, by the previous paragraph that I don't have a lot of source material for this post. The usual waterfall fandom sites don't mention it for some reason. And getting to the falls doesn't require any actual hiking, so the usual hiking and outdoor websites don't mention it either. And it doesn't appear that any interesting historical events have ever happened here, at least going by local newspaper archives. So once again I had to resort to the state LIDAR map (see <a href="https://gis.dogami.oregon.gov/maps/lidarviewer/?marker=-122.61760227908837%2C45.344553818755536%2C%2C%2C%2C&markertemplate=%7B%22title%22%3A397%2C%22longitude%22%3A-122.61760227908837%2C%22latitude%22%3A45.344553818755536%2C%22isIncludeShareUrl%22%3Atrue%7D&level=17">here</a>) just to try to guess how tall the thing is. The part you see here is probably around 20', but LIDAR seems to indicate there's more of a drop up above this that isn't visible from street level, so that it may be closer to 50' or even 75' high depending on where you measure from. And then the creek continues dropping on the other side of the road, too, so the total drop from what looks like the top of the hill down to the Willamette River comes to around 350'. I don't have any photos of that part of the creek and I have no idea whether it ought to be included or not.</p>
<p>The falls do appear in <i>a few</i> places online, at least. There's a page about it at <p><a href="https://oregonwaterfalls.wordpress.com/2016/08/18/coffee-creek-falls/">OregonWaterfalls</a>, and a <a href="https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM420H_Oregon_City_OR_Coffee_Creek_Falls">Waymarking page</a>, and a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh586w4sP9g">YouTube video from 2015</a> and even an <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/urbanadventureleaguepdx/50101861462">Urban Adventure League Flickr photo</a>. As for official governmental stuff, there's, well, a photo of the falls on a <a href="https://www.orcity.org/natural-resources">city 'natural resources' page</a> and brief mentions of it in connection with some current and ongoing <a href="https://www.orcity.org/publicworks/project/ci-14-008">public</a> <a href="https://www.clackamas.us/engineering/south-end-road">works</a> projects, and that's about it. Oh, and a fairly recent <a href="http://www.gocwc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/AssessmentReport_OregonCity_040810.pdf">water quality report</a> on OC-area creeks. Coffee Creek did relatively well in some catetories and worse in others, most notably in bacteria numbers. Just passing that along in case you were still thinking about drinking the water, on the outside chance that I'm wrong and there's caffeine here after all.</p>
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<p>Back in February I finally hit "Publish" on a post about <i><a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2015/07/sculpture-beaverton-central.html">Icarus at Kittyhawk</a></i>, the Lee Kelly art at the Beaverton Central MAX station. That post was stuck in Drafts for ages because I didn't know what it was called, until I finally found that crucial detail on a <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57dadde71b631b4309a3a316/t/58b47e27cd0f68b719c9d3d6/1488223909317/Lee-Kelly-Sculpture-Walking-Tour.pdf">walking/driving tour map</a> of Kelly art around the Portland area. I said at the time:</p>
<blockquote><i>In fact the map includes a lamentable number of others that I wasn't aware of and have never visited. Somehow I feel like I have to add them to the ol' TODO list now, although for the life of me I'm not sure why.</i></blockquote>
<p>...and sure enough, here's a TODO item from that map. This is <i>Sulawesi</i> (2008), on the West Portland Physical Therapy building at SW 17th and Morrison. I actually like this one. It's a reasonable size, and somehow it actually fits with the building it's on (the circa-1958 Annand Building) and looks like it's always been there, despite being about a half-century newer. Usually at this point I would go off on a tangent about the cool midcentury building, but I haven't found any interesting info about it by name or by address. I can tell you the building once housed an office of the Equitable Life of Iowa insurance firm starting in 1958, and they were seemingly <a href="https://infoweb-newsbank-com.proxy.multcolib.org/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=EANX-NB&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A11A73E5827618330%2540EANX-NB-12C313A8DE4A194E%25402436439-12BC60B539277B5F%254017-12BC60B539277B5F%2540/hlterms%3A%25221630%2520SW%2520Morrison%2522">hiring new stenographers</a> every few months, year after year, and after that other tenants came and went over time, and I have no historical anecdotes to share about any of them, or the building, or anything really. Which at least makes this an easy post to finish, so there's that, I guess.</p>
<p>I'm glad I checked that walking map again before hitting 'Publish', since I had gotten the name of the art wrong. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulawesi">Sulawesi</a> (the correct name) is an island in Indonesia, the 11th largest island on the planet and home to 20 million people. I almost mistakenly called the art "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surabaya">Surabaya</a>", which is a city on the island of Java, elsewhere in Indonesia. The Surabaya metropolitan area is home to about 10 million people. So that would have been kind of embarrassing. Searching for more info under the correct name comes back with a result for <a href="https://publicartarchive.org/art/Sulawesi-I/84bd1ba4"><i>"Sulawesi I"</i> (1997)</a> a similar Kelly sculpture outside a library on the Oregon State University campus. The OSU one is described as "A wall-mounted sculpture with silver leaf with looping and linear forms reminiscent of script." That could be the origin of the name here too, or it's named for resembling the weirdly-shaped island itself, which looks a lot a letter in some unknown alphabet.</p>
brx0http://www.blogger.com/profile/17988772767222837140noreply@blogger.com01630 SW Morrison St, Portland, OR 97205, USA45.5215827 -122.688837217.211348863821158 -157.8450872 73.831816536178849 -87.5325872tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029943.post-86064226443392858972023-09-11T00:05:00.000-07:002023-09-11T00:05:16.613-07:00Panther Creek Falls<iframe src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/atul666/53160532094/in/set-72177720310915415/player/" width="700" height="700" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
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<p>Our next adventure takes us to the absurdly photogenic <a href="https://www.waterfallsnorthwest.com/waterfall/Panther-Creek-Falls-5248">Panther Creek Falls</a>, a bit north of the Columbia River Gorge in Washington's Gifford Pinchot National Forest. This is a bit further afield than most of the weekend hikes I post here, so a few notes are in order: It's about a 90 minute drive from Portland, first heading east to the town of Carson, WA, and then north on Wind River Highway (or Wind River Road; signs are a bit inconsistent on this point). The map above has all the route info you need, and I would just add a couple of details:</p>
<ul><li>First, the directions have you turn right off Wind River Something-or-other onto Old State Road. This is a loop road that intersects the highway twice, and the directions assume you take the second turnoff. If you leave the highway and the intersection isn't a right angle, you jumped the gun and are on the first of the two junctions. Just stay on the road till you're back at the highway, do a U turn, and you're back on track. I think the road you turn left onto is initially called "Panther Creek Road" and doesn't become forest road NF-65 until the national forest boundary.</li>
<li>Second, the parking lot for the falls could really use an official sign to that effect. But right now there isn't one, so your best bet is to look for what looks like an old rock quarry on the right side of the road, forming a rough parking lot. There's only one of these along the road, unless maybe you're on completely the wrong road, so it's a good clue that you've arrived. Most likely there will be a few Subarus parked there already when you arrive. I was strictly looking for official USFS signage and kept going for a few extra miles before turning around, but that's just me.</li></ul>
<p>As far as I can tell, as of 'press time' you don't need a Northwest Forest Pass to legally park here, though that could change at any time. This is the regional National Forest parking permit, which runs $30/year, or you can rely on $5 one-day passes you can print at home if you don't like planning ahead and don't mind paying the inkjet cartels every so often. I had a day pass with me due to an earlier stop the same day, so (required or not) I left it on the dash just in case, as a sort of talisman to ward off prowling tow trucks.</p>
<p>I think there is supposed to be a sign for <a href="about:invalid#zSoyz">Trail #137</a>, right across the road from the quarry/parking lot. When I stopped by there was just a bare pole on the left side of the road, but there was only one of those, and the trail starts just to the right of that pole. The trail switchbacks downhill a short distance to a junction: A sign there says "viewpoint" is to your right, and to your left is another trail branch to the base of the falls. The viewpoint is not at the actual top of the falls, but at the point partway up where Big Huckleberry Creek rumbles in and joins the main falls. That's the heavily-flowing bit in the first photo. If I was going to be a tedious pedant about it, I would pause here and go off for a few paragraphs arguing that it's actually a separate waterfall and then try to think of a name for it, since the side creek already has <a href="https://www.waterfallsnorthwest.com/waterfall/Lower-Big-Huckleberry-Creek-Falls-27778">lower</a>, <a href="https://www.waterfallsnorthwest.com/waterfall/Middle-Big-Huckleberry-Creek-Falls-27777">middle</a>, and <a href="https://www.waterfallsnorthwest.com/waterfall/Big-Huckleberry-Creek-Falls-27776">upper falls</a> of its own. The more important thing for you to notice is all the wooden railings keeping you on the trail, and the multilingual forest of warning signs, and the makeshift memorial right behind you as you watch the falls from the viewpoint, all of which are due to a tragic fall back in 2018.</p>
<p>Backtracking up to the trail junction, the other branch of the trail heads downstream a little and then switchbacks down to another viewpoint. This is where the first photo was taken, and you can see the whole falls you had a partial view of at the top. But wait, there's more: This lower viewpoint is also the top of another, lower tier of the falls, which adds another 30' or so to the total height of the falls. Right now there's no legal way down to the bottom of this bottom tier, and I have no idea how one might get down there safely, or back up. Strictly from a picture-taking standpoint the ideal thing would be a bridge at the same level as the inter-tier viewpoint, but downstream a bit so photos can include the whole falls, and make it a proper solid bridge, not a bouncy one, so long-exposure shots aren't ruined by other people walking across. But the Forest Service will probably never have that kind of money, and I'm pretty sure I can live with the current arrangement if I have to.</p>
<p>This is one of those places that the internet made famous, and this humble little blog is far from the only place you can read about it. It has the inevitable <a href="https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/panther-creek-falls">Washington Trails Association</a>, <a href="https://gorgefriends.org/hike-the-gorge/panther-creek-falls.html">Friends of the Gorge</a>, and <a href="https://www.oregonhikers.org/field_guide/Panther_Creek_Falls_Hike">OregonHikers</a> pages. And, unusually, its own <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_Creek_Falls">Wikipedia entry</a>, which features a photo seemingly taken from a point that's now off limits after the big post-2018 trail redesign. Other pages about the falls include ones at <a href="https://www.adventurespnw.com/adventures/panther-creek-falls-gifford-pinchot-national-forest-waterfalls">Adventures PNW</a>, <a href="https://aspiringwild.com/panther-creek-falls/">Aspiring Wild</a>, <a href="https://www.outdoorproject.com/united-states/washington/panther-creek-falls">Outdoor Project page</a>, and <a href="https://www.world-of-waterfalls.com/waterfalls/pacific-northwest-panther-creek-falls/">World of Waterfalls</a>. And despite all the stereotypes about social media, I have not actually encountered any Instagram photos of anyone doing yoga poses in front of the falls, unless maybe you count <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BhsXlgkH35p/">this one</a> from early 2018. And it might also be of someone doing Gangnam Style dance moves instead, and either way they're far away and in rain gear, so I don't think it counts.</p>
<p>You might think a 140' waterfall that looks like this would've been famous since pioneer days, or at least from Carson's heyday as a hot springs resort town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I mean, just look at it, c'mon. But that doesn't seem to have ever been the case. I fired up the local library's database of the local newspaper, which runs back to sometime in the 1850s, and there is precisely one mention of the falls in all that time, and it's a story about the accident in 2018.</p>
<p>So looking at other pre-internet (or at least pre-WWW) print media, the falls got high marks in both Plumb's <i>Waterfalls of the Pacific Northwest</i> and Bloom & Cohen's <i>Romance of Waterfalls</i>, two early guidebooks on the subject, both from the early 1980s. But many potential visitors would have read the parts about following bad roads off into the middle of nowhere, where -- if you could even find the trailhead -- you then faced a steep scramble downhill through the brush to a sketchy, dangerous viewpoint, while lugging a heavy camera and tripod around, and hoping a few of your 36 film photos turned out ok, or fewer than that if you were shooting 120 or 4x5 film.</p>
<p>The only other pre-internet mention of the place I've come across (though surely not the only one that exists anywhere) is a <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Final_Environmental_Impact_Statement_Lan/-soEPridsBsC?hl=en&gbpv=0">1990 Forest Service publication</a>, specifically some appendices to the master plan for the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Page E-5 explains that despite the falls, Panther Creek as a whole just isn't "outstandingly remarkable" enough to qualify as a federal Wild & Scenic River.</p>
<p>It turns out that this isn't the only waterfall named Panther Creek Falls; an <a href="https://www.atlantatrails.com/hiking-trails/panther-creek-falls/">oddly similar one</a> exists in the mountains of northern Georgia, and is <a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/conf/recreation/hiking/recarea/?recid=10514&actid=50">also owned & operated</a> by the US Forest Service. In fact it's only a few miles from <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2012/11/tallulah-gorge.html">Tallulah Gorge</a>, which I visited and took a few photos of back in the late 90s. An Atlanta Journal-Constitution <a href="https://infoweb-newsbank-com.proxy.multcolib.org/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AMNEWS&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F193E43D177901348">article from September 2023</a> (a few days ago) offers the heartwarming tale about an elderly golden retriever that got heat exhaustion along the long trail to the falls, and all the strangers who pitched in to help along the way to get the dog back to the trailhead safely. The dog is fine now, btw, but has officially retired from further hiking adventures.</p>
<p>I went back to the newspaper database and tried a few other search terms, just in case that led to anything interesting. The falls have evidently never gone by "Panther Falls", since the only use of that phrase came in a 1931 headline, when a woman and her daughter homesteading near Coquille were <a href="https://infoweb-newsbank-com.proxy.multcolib.org/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=EANX-NB&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A11A73E5827618330%2540EANX-NB-12A2695C8A58E62F%25402426613-129829C81959D3AC%25408-129829C81959D3AC%2540/hlterms%3A%2522panther%2520falls%2522">startled awake</a> by a cougar either falling or jumping onto the roof of their cabin. (Slow news day, I imagine.)</p>
<p>In the same vein, there are Panther Creek high schools in both <a href="https://www.wcpss.net/panthercreekhs">Cary, NC</a> and <a href="https://schools.friscoisd.org/campus/high-school/panther-creek/home">Frisco, TX</a>, and whenever one of their sports teams loses there is often a headline containing the words "Panther Creek falls", like <a href="https://infoweb-newsbank-com.proxy.multcolib.org/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AMNEWS&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A16E8399A13BB1238%2540AWNB-188AE6C6286B6338%25402459653-188B97382DFC0DEE%25406-188B97382DFC0DEE%2540/hlterms%3A%2522Panther%2520Creek%2520Falls%2522">this example</a> from 2022.</p>
<p>And finally, I tried just "Panther Creek", and found a few results for that at least:</p>
<ul>
<li>Most were about a different creek by the same name near McMinnville, namesake of a <a href="https://www.panthercreekcellars.com/about-us/">prominent Yamhill County winery</a> and a bunch of area real estate listings.</li>
<li>The correct creek was mentioned briefly in a <a href="https://infoweb-newsbank-com.proxy.multcolib.org/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=EANX-NB&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A130FB78394A04B53%2540EANX-NB-16EEFF0627C3DD63%25402444807-16EDDF6C03884A89%254047-16EDDF6C03884A89%2540/hlterms%3A%2522panther%2520creek%2522%2520carson">1981 Roberta Lowe article</a> in the Oregon Journal, but just in the driving directions on the way to an even more remote trailhead, the start of a long, technical hike up in the Indian Heaven area. Lowe columns were often like this, because the Journal felt its readers were grown-ups and trusted them to judge for themselves if they were up for that level of adventure. The paper went out of business the next year for unrelated reasons, and we never had to witness how this policy fared during the heyday of personal injury lawsuits.</li>
<li>A <a href="https://infoweb-newsbank-com.proxy.multcolib.org/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=EANX-NB&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A11A73E5827618330%2540EANX-NB-12A4BC54A1C51080%25402428614-129F1590120AA003%254082-129F1590120AA003%2540/hlterms%3A%2522panther%2520creek%2522%2520carson">March 1937 first-person account</a>, relating what sounds a bit like a 1930s version of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Strayed">Cheryl Strayed</a>'s <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_%282014_film%29">Wild</a></i>: Miss Jacqueline Arte (age 24) becomes fed up with the noise, chaos, commotion, hypocrisy, artificiality, and general wrongness of modern life, turns her back on society, and sets off to hike the <a href="https://getoutbackpacking.com/timeless-trails-old-washingon-cascade-crest-trail/">Cascade Crest Trail</a> (a predecessor of the Pacific Crest Trail), packing a change of clothes, a book of Nietzsche, and a .38 pistol. (Ok, not just those three items, but it sounds more 1930s, more hardboiled when put that way.) She started off at Panther Creek -- which served as the boundary between the modern world and the great wilderness -- and headed for Mt. Rainier, by way of endless meanderings and side trips. In <a href="https://infoweb-newsbank-com.proxy.multcolib.org/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=EANX-NB&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A11A73E5827618330%2540EANX-NB-12A4BC579C41BCC9%25402428621-129F15930AF50F12%254070-129F15930AF50F12%2540/hlterms%3A%2522Jacqueline%2520Arte%2522">Part II</a>, she decided to hole up in a remote cabin and spend the winter writing a book. But ended up blowing out a knee dealing with firewood, and eventually had to be rescued after running low on food. Though she <a href="https://infoweb-newsbank-com.proxy.multcolib.org/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AMNEWS&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A11A73E5827618330%2540EANX-NB-12A4C05490FA8531%25402428591-129F15850AD750E2%25403-129F15850AD750E2%2540/hlterms%3A%2522Jacqueline%2520Arte%2522">initially refused to leave</a> until she was done writing.</li>
<li>This wasn't Arte's first wilderness adventure; in October 1934, the Oregonian <a href="https://infoweb-newsbank-com.proxy.multcolib.org/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=EANX-NB&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A11A73E5827618330%2540EANX-NB-12A3A9CED6431324%25402427725-129C67A7C04C9056%254043-129C67A7C04C9056%2540/hlterms%3A%2522Jacqueline%2520Arte%2522">noted her arrival at Crater Lake</a>, having set out on a unhurried trip down the Skyline Trail (Oregon's predecessor to the PCT) the previous April, this time with the aid of a wayward pack horse named "Red Wing". The article said she was done hiking, but Crater Lake is of course nowhere near the California border, and she continued on her way south and eventually wrote a <a href="https://infoweb-newsbank-com.proxy.multcolib.org/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=EANX-NB&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A11A73E5827618330%2540EANX-NB-12A54F18E59AFC1B%25402428194-12A072912A14702F%254052/hlterms%3A%2522Jacqueline%2520Arte%2522">first-person account</a> for the paper once she decided she was actually done for real, in January 1936. Fifteen additional months seems an exceptionally long time to hike from Crater Lake to California, but she explained she'd run low on money and supplies at one point and took a job as a ranch hand for a while, after panning for gold didn't, er, pan out.</li>
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<p>I really wish I knew what became of Miss Arte after the 1937 episode; she doesn't appear in the Oregonian again after that, or in any other newspaper covered by the library's newspaper database, for that matter. I also don't see any references to books published under her name, though using a pen name would explain that. Maybe she decided society wasn't so bad after all, and settled down and had a quiet ordinary life after this; or maybe she hit the wilderness again and went completely off the grid this time, and vanished once and for all, the end; maybe she just moved out of town or across the country or changed her name and news of her further adventures never made it back to little old Portland. In short, the trail has gone cold. So on the remote off-chance anybody out there happens to know the rest of her story, please feel free to drop a note in the comments down below. Thanks!</p>
brx0http://www.blogger.com/profile/17988772767222837140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029943.post-59924687374835213672023-07-31T23:32:00.002-07:002023-07-31T23:32:22.565-07:00Autumn Rider<iframe src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/atul666/53035297769/in/set-72177720309675753/player/" width="700" height="700" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
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<p>So here we've got a few photos of <i>Autumn Rider</i>, a <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/search/label/james%20lee%20hansen">James Lee Hansen</a> sculpture located -- a bit improbably -- in a median at the <a href="https://greshamtownfair.shopkimco.com/">Gresham Town Fair</a> mini-mall on Eastman Parkway in central Gresham. Going by the name I imagine it's a sibling to Hansen's <i><a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2012/03/winter-rider-no-2.html">Winter Rider No. 2</a></i> on the transit mall in downtown Portland.</p>
<p>By coincidence, a recent Oregon Art Beat episode ran a profile of Hansen recently on the occasion of his 98th birthday:</p>
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<p>If you're one of those people who enjoys tracking down places and things you've seen on this weird little humble blog (I've heard occasional rumors that people like this exist, at any rate.), you can obviously drive there, park a few steps from <i>Autumn Rider</i> and check it out that way. Which is what I did, since this was just the first item on a lengthy todo list. But this is also pretty close to the Gresham City Hall MAX station, and one of the few things you'll see on the short walk to or from the train is Gresham's own <a href="https://madcowbrewing.com/">MadCow Brewing</a>, which opened in 2021. I haven't actually been there yet, but I like to stay on top of these things, so I may have to make another trip out that way. Maybe at that point this photoset will get bigger and include the same art but with close-ups of raindrops or snow on it. Who knows.</p>
brx0http://www.blogger.com/profile/17988772767222837140noreply@blogger.com0300 NW Eastman Pkwy, Gresham, OR 97030, USA45.5023565 -122.434538917.192122663821152 -157.5907889 73.812590336178843 -87.2782889tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029943.post-6851783083250084902023-07-31T22:53:00.000-07:002023-07-31T22:53:21.491-07:00South Terminus<iframe src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/atul666/52462819621/in/set-72177720301990171/player/" width="700" height="700" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
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<p>Next up we're visiting downtown Portland's "South Terminus", the little park/plaza at the south end of the downtown transit mall, where the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAX_Green_Line">MAX Green Line</a> turns around and the Yellow Line becomes the Orange Line (and vice versa). The most notable feature of the place, from a distance, is a tall curved steel structure seen in most of the photos above, which exists to hide (and keep people out of) an electrical substation. The inner workings of it are further concealed by a fence and something called <a href="https://cascadecoil.com/">"coil drapery"</a>, and (most importantly) the south-facing side of the structure is covered in solar panels, which contribute a purely symbolic amount of electricity toward running the train.</p>
<p>North of all that, there's the actual turnaround area, which takes up most of the block and is just utilitarian train tracks and gravel. And because MAX trains have the turning radius of, well, trains, there was a crescent of land left over inside the loop, which became a small brick plaza and landscaped garden.</p>
<p>All of this was originally built in 2009 for the Green Line, and then "completed" in 2012, and reworked a bit in 2015 for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAX_Orange_Line">Orange Line</a>, and further redesigned in 2017 for reasons we'll get to in a moment. If you're familiar with my ongoing projects and occasional obsessions here, you'd think I would have had a post up about it the day it opened, but no. I didn't even pay very close attention as it changed repeatedly over time.</p>
<p>The original design firm behind the project still has <a href="https://www.henneberyeddy.com/project/trimet-south-terminus/">a project page</a> up bragging about it, and -- to be fair -- the project got all sorts of rave reviews when the Green Line opened, like a <a href="https://www.archpaper.com/2009/01/unveiled-portland-south-terminus/">2009 Architect's Newspaper article</a>, a
<a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2010/01/trimet_light-rail_substation_i.html">breathless Oregonian article</a> from January 2010, a <a href="https://www.jetsongreen.com/2010/01/portland-trimet-solar-wind-substation.html">similar Avada article</a>, and <a href="https://usmodernist.org/FORM/FORM-2010-05-06.pdf">a 2010 issue of FORM magazine</a>. Though I should note that all of this publicity came even though the solar energy part of the project wouldn't be ready for another two years.</p>
<p>One of the selling points behind their design was, we're told, that "the solar panels identify both Portland and TriMet as leaders in sustainability". Solar project <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2012/02/trimet_says_downtown_portland.html">finally opened</a> in <a href="https://www.henneberyeddy.com/2012/03/06/trimet-south-terminus/">2012</a> and proved to be a bit <a href="https://www.masstransitmag.com/home/news/10467495/or-questions-arise-as-panels-go-up-for-first-max-solar-project-in-portland">controversial</a>. Different articles tell us it either produces around 65,000 kilowatt-hours per year, or 67,000 kilowatts per year, depending on who's reporting and how much they know about electricity. Which is not a lot of power given what they paid for the system (although it cost less than half the original projections thanks to price drops for solar gear). Projections at the time were that the system would pay for itself in about 65 years, though a TriMet spokesman insisted it would be more like 22.5 years, which would mean it's over halfway paid for at this point, which is nice, I guess.</p>
<p>The original plan here was a bit more ambitious and would have augmented the trickle of solar power with a trickle of wind power from 22 little fun-sized wind turbines atop the power poles. Unfortunately(?) the startup that was chosen to build these Little Windmills That Could couldn't get the job done and the whole firm cratered shortly afterward. At that point the idea was quietly dropped.</p>
<p>At one point there was a bench somewhere in the park/plaza area with a builtin LED display so visitors could monitor the system's power output as electricity dribbled out of it. I vaguely remember seeing it, but it's not there now. I can only guess at the timeline but I imagine it was damaged beyond repair by bored vandals shortly after it went in, and then quietly removed during the next renovation, since that's what always happens around here. Or at least it's what always happens in public spaces when you don't give "normies" any reason to spend time there.</p>
<p>I do have a proposal here: At whatever point they redesign the park again, my suggestion would be to divert some of the plaza's solar bounty to power a wireless charging station. To me, charging your phone from those solar panels right over there makes for a much better demonstration than just watching LED numbers tick over in electrical units almost nobody really has a feel for. You might ask why, if that's really such a great idea, why didn't they build it that way in the first place? That's actually an easy one: The project was designed prior to 2009, and wireless charging was still a wacky sci-fi idea back then, shelved next to flying cars and atomic jetpacks. By early 2012 the technology had advanced from "works in the lab" to "getting <a href="https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/ces-2012-wireless-charging-takes-center-stage-3593001.html">hyped at CES</a>", but a lot of ideas get hyped at trade shows but never ship in volume, much less catch on with the public. The first phones supporting the new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_%28standard%29">Qi power standard</a> finally shipped in September of that year.</p>
<p>There was also an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120419031152/http://live.deckmonitoring.com/?id=tri_met_south_terminus">online version</a> of that power meter, so you could watch your tax dollars at work without getting off your couch, if you were so inclined. The site continued on for years, long after its brick-and-mortar version was hauled away. But it's gone now, because if you were designing a hip, fancy, cutting-edge website in 2009-2012, chances are you built it in Adobe Flash, the powerful full-featured programming language of the future. Over time that consensus shifted to "Flash is insecure and unfixable", and it was officially discontinued in all major browsers on New Years Eve 2021, thus breaking the site. Maybe somebody who cares enough will go back fix it at some point, but I wouldn't bet money on that. Old websites that survive in the long term usually do so by being very low maintenance, like the <a href="https://www.spacejam.com/1996/">Space Jam</a> and <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/MPF/">Mars Pathfinder</a> sites, both from 1996.</p>
<p>All in all, the solar thing was exactly the sort of project Republicans have in mind when they sneer at people for "virtue signaling". But that's a bit unfair in this case; the idea is not to radiate civic virtue directly, but to persuade rich Californians to invest in luxury real estate here, thus boosting the local tax base and (in theory) paying for future civic virtue that way.</p>
<p>There was also a small piece of land left over that they couldn't use for turning around, as it was inside the minimum turning radius of any MAX car, so it became sort of a public mini-garden. also I could swear there used to be public access into the landscaped area. A <a href="http://ktransit.com/transit/NAmerica/uspnw/portland/lightrail/green/pdx_lr-M06T-Turnaround.htm">page at Kavanagh Transit Photos</a> confirms my memory of this, showing what the place looked like in 2009 when it was new. No fence around the place then.</p>
<p>We get a hint of the issues facing the park in a <a href="https://www.portlandmaps.com/detail/permit/2013-200792-000-00-NU/3360990_did/?p=R246246">September 2013 nuisance complaint</a>, which asserted the plaza was full of tall grass and weeds and animal feces at that point, which seems accurate if memory serves.</p>
<p>Like a lot of people who take up gardening as a hobby, after a few years of it TriMet evidently realized it couldn't keep up with the watering and weeding and in 2017 hired another landscaping firm to <a href="https://nnala.com/portlands-max-south-terminus-at-jackson-street/">rework the design</a> into something a bit more low-maintenance. Their page says, diplomatically, that nearby construction killed a lot of the original plants here. The page says something about designing a fence to keep people out during construction, maybe it became permanent at that point. The signs around the area say "Limited Access" rather than the usual "No Trespassing" or "No Public Access". I'm not really sure what "Limited Access" means here. It's an unfamiliar bit of officialese and I'm not sure how to interpret it. Maybe it's still officially open and there just aren't any entrances anymore. Maybe you're only allowed in on group tours, which are offered once every other decade.</p>
<p>Oh, and before all of this, there was a circa-1900 house here. It wasn't on the National Register of Historic Places, but was on the city's historic inventory as of 2002 (mentioned in some of the <a href="https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/ab1e3ec6-8933-4596-b7b6-f7219a9a5b35/">paperwork</a> around moving the Simon Benson House, a National Register property) A little searching came back with a <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jmchuff/3602496660/">photo of that house</a>, from an interesting <a href="http://www.rosecitytransit.org/trimetarchives/portlandmall/beforemaxstations/">Rose City Transit page</a> about what various MAX stations looked like before they were MAX stations.</p>
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<p>Next up we've got a few photos of <a href="http://www.pdxstreetart.org/articles-all/inheritance"><i>Inheritance</i></a>, a very large mural by Portland artists <a href="https://www.instagram.com/artbyalexchiu/?hl=en">Alex</a> <a href="https://www.artbyalexchiu.com/">Chiu</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/plasticbirdie/?hl=en">Jeremy</a> <a href="https://www.plasticbirdie.com/">Nichols</a>. This is located on the south side of the new-ish (built 2019) 250 Taylor building, in downtown Portland at, yeah, 250 SW Taylor.</p>
<p>Since it's still a recent building, there are still live pages about it from the <a href="https://www.ankrommoisan.com/projects/250-taylor/">architects</a>, <a href="https://www.turnerconstruction.com/projects/250-taylor-office-building">construction firm.</a>, and <a href="https://lpcwest.com/development/250-taylor/">property management company</a>, if you're interested. The construction link mentions that the building is built to withstand that 9.0 earthquake geologists keep telling us we're overdue for. Which is a nice feature, given that the building's sole tenant is the <a href="https://www.nwnatural.com/">local natural gas utility</a>, and The Big One is likely to make a huge mess of their infrastructure, with broken pipes spewing fire and spreading chaos across the region. As opposed to merely <a href="https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/methane/">contributing to the heat death of the planet</a>, which is what natural gas does when the infrastructure is working as designed.</p>
<p>Because this blog has been around for a while, I can point you at a <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2006/07/friday-image-o-rama.html">2006 blog post here</a> featuring the previous building at this location, the eccentric-looking United Workmen Temple building. We were told at the time that unfortunately the weird old building was too far gone to be salvageable. I'm not the kind of engineer to ask whether that was really true or not, but my office was nearby at the time and we had front row seats to the demolition, and workers had a real struggle on their hands trying to take the core of the building apart, and it took them many months to take the site down to bare dirt before they could start building the new one. This is also the same block that used to be home to the late, lamented <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2021/12/lotus-cafe-mural.html">Lotus Cafe</a> building, although that half of the block remains vacant as of 2023 while developers wait patiently for the Before Times to return.</p>
brx0http://www.blogger.com/profile/17988772767222837140noreply@blogger.com1250 SW Taylor St, Portland, OR 97204, USA45.5166999 -122.675808417.206466063821154 -157.8320584 73.826933736178844 -87.5195584tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029943.post-36798266457161995882023-05-13T13:43:00.004-07:002023-05-14T02:01:45.563-07:00hnl ✈️ pdx, may 2023<iframe src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/atul666/52890741835/in/set-72177720308204456/player/" width="700" height="700" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
<p>Here's another batch of window seat photos, this time from earlier this week. Most of these show the north shore of Molokai, which is home to the <a href="https://traveltoparadise.com/sea-cliffs-molokai-hawaii/">world's tallest sea cliffs</a>, although the very tallest ones are off in the distance and were covered in clouds when I took these photos. If the weather had cooperated I might have gotten a waterfall post (or several) out of this flight, since that area is home to <a href="https://www.worldwaterfalldatabase.com/country/United-States/Hawaii/tallest">Oloʻupena Falls</a> (which the World Waterfall Database rates as 4th tallest on the planet at 900m / 2953'), along with several others that are nearly as tall. They're basically inaccessible from land, so seeing them from a plane is your best bet for catching a glimpse of them, short of renting a helicopter or approaching the base of the falls by boat.</p>
<p>In some of these you can also see <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/search/label/maui">Maui</a>, Lanaʻi, and the <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/search/label/big%20island">Big Island</a>. Kahoʻolawe is somewhere in that direction too but it might be behind one of the other islands or obscured by foreground clouds in these photos.</p> brx0http://www.blogger.com/profile/17988772767222837140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029943.post-48376499547688118612023-04-27T20:13:00.000-07:002023-04-27T20:13:05.464-07:00Dans la Nuit (Lovers)<iframe src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/atul666/15835658831/in/set-72157649327949136/player/" width="700" height="700" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
<p>Semi-fresh on the heels of <i><a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2014/12/new-outside-art-museum-2.html">Floating Figure</a></i> (last month's rather stale public art post), here are a few photos of <i>Dans la Nuit (Lovers)</i>, also by French-American sculptor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Lachaise">Gaston</a> <a href="https://tfaoi.org/aa/7aa/7aa900.htm">Lachaise</a>. It used to be outside the Portland Art Museum, on the right side of the main entrance, across from <i>Floating Figure</i>, having replaced Auguste Maillol's <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2014/09/la-montagne.html"><i>La Montagne</i></a> around 2014 in conjunction with a temporary Lachaise exhibit. The two sculptures quietly went off exhibit or maybe left town sometime in 2020-21 while everyone was focused on the pandemic, and protesters were busy toppling statues of various dead presidents right next door in the South Park Blocks.</p>
<p>This post and its companion are another reminder that this humble blog does not aspire to be anyone's hub for breaking news: I took most of these photos back around 2014, shortly after the big Maillol-Lachaise swap-out, before the little nameplates were installed. Obviously I couldn't hit the big orange Publish button at that point, since I didn't actually know anything about the newly arrived art, so I saved a couple of draft posts with placeholder titles and moved on. A year or so later I was in the area and noticed the nameplates and duly took photos of them, but by then I'd moved on to other projects and just left it at that: I knew the photos were saved somewhere in either iPhoto or Flickr and I could probably find them again if I was in the mood to finish these posts, and I could always go back and take new photos if I genuinely couldn't find the older ones. Meanwhile fresh sedimentary layers of draft posts kept accumulating on top of this leftover art stuff from 2014, and eventually the art (and the nameplates) weren't there anymore, and Google was (as usual) pretty useless without already knowing the titles, or at minimum the artist. Then a few months ago I stumbled across the 'lost' nameplate photos during a brief, yet tedious, photo-organizing bender and remembered I'd been looking for them. So I added those photos to the appropriate photosets, updated everything with the actual names, did the usual internet research, even got some words in place... and then saved the posts as updated drafts, to languish for a few more months. Because, as it generally is with these things, taking the photos and researching and writing is ninety percent of the work, while editing is the second ninety percent of the work.</p>brx0http://www.blogger.com/profile/17988772767222837140noreply@blogger.com0Portland Art Museum, 1219 Southwest Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205, USA45.5162758 -122.6835596999999919.994241300000002 -163.9921537 71.0383103 -81.37496569999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029943.post-91017650582323565992023-03-31T23:29:00.000-07:002023-03-31T23:29:16.085-07:00Floating Figure<iframe src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/atul666/15218101953/in/set-72157648974082327/player/" width="700" height="700" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
<p>Next up we've got a few photos of <i>Floating Figure</i>, a sculpture by French-American artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Lachaise">Gaston Lachaise</a> that used to be outside the Portland Art Museum, to the left of the main entrance. (Another Lachaise, <i>Dans le Nuit (Lovers)</i>, sat on the right side of the entrance.) It replaced Auguste Maillol's <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2014/09/la-riviere.html"><i>La Riviere</i></a> sometime around 2013-2014, and went off exhibit sometime during the recent pandemic; <i>Floating Figure</i> is <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/o8ASiMoyjgcymVWV7">clearly visible</a> on Google Street View imagery dated June 2019, and <a href="https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=dc4a0ca7-ebb9-4d1d-b907-be91a6d9d808&cp=45.516329~-122.683938&lvl=18.05&pi=0&style=x&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027">absent</a> in Microsoft's Bing Streetside View dated September 2021, so that gives us a rough time window for when they were removed.</p>
<p>What I don't know is whether the removal was pre-planned, or happened because of the recent bout of civic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm">iconoclasm</a> that resulted in toppling the dead president statues along the Park Blocks and elsewhere around town, as well as Harvey Scott on Mt. Tabor, the gun-n-bible-totin' pioneers in Chapman Square, and even the Thompson Elk that used to be in the middle of SW Main St. So maybe the museum figured they'd be targeted eventually, once the supply of slaveholding aristocrats and other canceled white guys ran out. Which, I dunno, I don't recall that anyone was toppling statues over cis- and hetero-normativity or excessive <i>Pepe-le-Peu</i> Frenchness at the time, but who knows.</p>
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<p>Next up we've got a fresh entry in a couple of long-running projects here. Some years ago this humble blog was largely about public art, in Portland or wherever else I happened to bump into it. When a new MAX line opened, there would always be a whole new batch of art of -- let's be honest here -- uneven, mostly fair-to-middling quality to write about, with the posts tagged <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/search/label/blueline">blueline</a>, <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/search/label/greenline">greenline</a>, <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/search/label/yellowline">yellowline</a>, and so forth to make it easy to check them all out in one go and compare and contrast and so forth. That was a fairly well-defined, limited-scope project, but I still occasionally run across stuff I'd missed earlier, or things I couldn't post about because I didn't know the title or the artist.</p>
<p>Another sort of subproject was tracking down additional art by people whose other work I liked, or at least thought was distinctive in some way, and the resulting posts are tagged so if you just want to binge on <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/search/label/izquierdo">Manuel Izquierdo art</a> (for example), it's easy to do that. One of the resulting tags is for the <a href="https://www.orartswatch.org/lee-kelly-giant-of-nw-art-dies-at-89/">late</a> <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/search/label/kelly">Lee Kelly</a>, the prolific local artist behind <i><a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2006/01/leland-1.html">Leland One</a></i> (aka <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2006/01/rusting-chunks-no-5.html">"Rusting Chunks No. 5"</a>) and countless other welded steel whatzits that have cropped up across the Northwest since the mid-1960s or so. I've never been a big fan of his stuff, though I'll admit some of his older work truly radiates groovy 1970s-ness, for good or ill. It's more that his stuff is fairly unavoidable if you try to do a public art project in this corner of the world.</p>
<p>That long-winded intro brings us to <i>Icarus at Kittyhawk</i>, at the Beaverton Central MAX station. TriMet's <a href="https://trimet.org/publicart/bluelinewest.htm">revised Westside Blue Line public art guide</a> describes it thusly:</p>
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Icarus at Kittyhawk, 2005, by Lee Kelly was inspired by the myth of Icarus with its timeless message about the danger of human arrogance.
<br/><br/>The 10’ tall stainless steel sculpture with seat was purchased with funds left over from the Westside MAX project and held by METRO.
</i></blockquote>
<p>The title is kind of funny given the location: The Beaverton Central project was a late-90s attempt to transplant Pearl District-style urbanism to the 'burbs: Retail and restaurant space on the ground floor, topped with several floors of upscale condos. That, evidently, was the Beaverton version of flying too close to the sun. The initial project ran out of money during construction, and the main condo building sat empty and exposed to the elements for a number of years before finally being completed in the mid-2000s. The condos eventually sold, and they finished an office building or two to flesh out the complex a bit, and a variety of short-lived restaurants and retailers have sort of cycled through the area ever since. But except for a couple of buildings on the old Westgate theater site, the expected forest of ever-taller imitators spreading across downtown Beaverton never happened. Or at least it hasn't happened yet.</p>
<p><i>Icarus</i> doesn't seem to have arrived with any great fanfare, as the only mention of it I found was in the <a href="https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1406&context=oscdl_jpact">June 2005 meeting notes</a> from the "Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation", a now-defunct regional government body:</p>
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On April 27th, the pedestrian environment at the Round in Beaverton received an injection of culture with the installation of "Icarus at Kittyhawk," a sculpture in stainless steel by Oregon City artist Lee Kelly. TOD Program staff secured funding for the project and worked in partnership with TriMet, the City of Beaverton and regional arts commission on artist solicitation and selection.
</i></blockquote>
<p>As a former westside resident on and off since the mid-1970s, I'm more than happy to snark about Beaverton all day as a private citizen, but the snide remark about Beaverton getting "an injection of culture" in official meeting minutes is... a bit much.</p>
<p>Come to think of it, going by the timing <i>Icarus</i> would have arrived while I was still commuting into downtown from darkest Aloha, since I didn't move downtown and start this weird little blog until November of that year. I don't recall noticing it at the time, but then again I had no idea I would end up doing weird projects like this, so I wasn't keeping detailed notes at the time.</p>
<p>Anyway, <i>Icarus</i> was also a stop on an exhaustive <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57dadde71b631b4309a3a316/t/58b47e27cd0f68b719c9d3d6/1488223909317/Lee-Kelly-Sculpture-Walking-Tour.pdf">"Walk • Bike • Drive" map</a> of Kelly art across the greater metro area, along with two others just within Beaverton city limits, the others being <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2014/01/arch-with-oaks.html"><i>Arch with Oaks</i></a> along Sunset, and another at PCC Rock Creek that I've never seen. In fact the map includes a lamentable number of others that I wasn't aware of and have never visited. Somehow I feel like I have to add them to the ol' TODO list now, although for the life of me I'm not sure why. </p>
brx0http://www.blogger.com/profile/17988772767222837140noreply@blogger.com0Beaverton Central MAX Station, Beaverton, OR 97005, USA45.490463 -122.8071039999999819.8353915 -164.29147899999998 71.1455345 -81.322728999999981tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029943.post-4130387478501442582023-02-19T14:16:00.001-08:002023-02-19T14:16:57.684-08:00Echoes<iframe src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/atul666/49656296963/in/set-72157715503675957/player/" width="700" height="700" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
<p>Next we've got a few photos of <i>Echoes</i>, the cool wavy glass art outside the new-ish <a href="https://diannepdx.com/">Dianne</a> <a href="https://www.nextportland.com/category/535-nw-11th-ave/">apartment building</a> in the Pearl District at <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/JtRwciUsZgZXHnPE9">NW 11th & Hoyt</a>. A small sign next to one of the panels explains:</p>
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Transparent glass laid flat becomes opaque,<br />
Sunlight glints over the curved and rippled surface,<br />
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Echoing streams long forgotten<br />
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2018<br />
<a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/search/label/ivan-mclean">Ivan McLean</a> - Anna McLean<br />
Mark Wingfield - Karina Adams - Darrell Adams<br />
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<p>This is another post that's been lurking in Drafts for a while, but not due to editor's block this time. I took these photos after having brunch nearby, shortly before Covid really got going, and I was a bit wobbly thanks to mimosas served by the pitcher. (Looking over my photos again, I clearly thought I was taking very artsy and abstract photos of the thing, but in retrospect that was probably just the mimosas thinking.) And so it came to pass that I neglected to either make a note of exactly where this was, or take a wider photo of the setting for context. Which was a problem, because I have sort of a rule here about posts needing a specific location, so that you -- o Gentle Reader(s) -- can go see for yourself if you like something you see here.</p>
<p>When I got around to starting this post, I quickly realized Google was (and still is) completely useless and it had absolutely no useful results for what I was looking for, which seems to be an increasingly common problem. Although they showed me a big pile of unrelated ads in the process, so it was still a win as far as they're concerned. That was my plan A. My Plan B would've been to go do brunch again and see if I could retrace my uneven steps and stumble across the same art again, but this time write down the address, but by that point everything was locked down for Covid and I was busy avoiding everything and everyone, and retracing seemed like a bad plan just then. My Plan C was to wander around the area on Street View instead and see if anything leaped out at me. That was a dismal failure, and to further complicate things McLean's <a href="http://ivanmclean.com/">website</a> hasn't been updated since 2016, several years before <i>Echoes</i> was created. At that point I shrugged and this post sank deep down into the Drafts folder and I basically forgot about it until recently (January 2023). On a whim I checked again and realized he'd simply <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ivanmcleanart/?hl=en">moved over to Instagram</a>, and I just needed to scroll backwards until I started seeing <i>Echoes</i> photos and see if any of them mentioned where it was. Fortunately <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BfI6wGJAm7j/?hl=en">one of them</a> did, so now all I need to do is make myself stop rewriting this big dumb paragraph.<p>
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<p>So I was rummaging around in old photos recently and found another set of window seat photos, this time from August 2018 when I flew into Orlando on my way to watch a <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2018/08/parker-solar-probe-launch-august-12th.html">large rocket send a small robot to the sun</a>. The photos are in reverse order because I thought some of the ones just before landing were kind of striking. It was a stormy summer afternoon, with dark clouds and beams of sunlight glinting off the many lakes in the area.</p>
<p>Because I was in sort of a space nerd frame of mind at the time, the scene reminded me of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakes_of_Titan">the lakes on Saturn's moon Titan</a>, though honestly that's quite a stretch. For one thing, the lakes on Titan are filled with liquid methane, ethane, propane, and other very cold hydrocarbons instead of swamp water, pesticides, and golf balls. And if you happened to land in a lake on Titan, you'd freeze solid almost immediately, instead of being eaten by backyard tigers or bath salts zombies, or randomly whacked by the cartels. And that's if you aren't shot out of the sky first for violating HOA airspace. The only <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens_%28spacecraft%29">probe</a> to land on Titan so far (as of 2023) managed to land successfully and then sent data for another half hour without being tasered or eaten, which seems to rule out the presence of HOAs and tigers, so there's that. Exo-cartels are still a possibility, though, especially if they had a someone on the inside at NASA or ESA and knew exactly when to lie low. We should have a better idea about this after 2034 when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_%28spacecraft%29">the next robot</a> gets there.</p>brx0http://www.blogger.com/profile/17988772767222837140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029943.post-67225176462166275972023-01-31T19:46:00.000-08:002023-01-31T19:46:50.437-08:00Wormy Apple II<iframe src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/atul666/51337500914/in/set-72157720039839030/player/" width="700" height="700" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
<p>This next installment of this humble blog's ongoing, on-again off-again public art project takes us down to Lake Oswego again, this time to tiny <a href="https://www.ci.oswego.or.us/parksrec/sundeleaf-plaza">Sundeleaf Plaza</a>, a half-acre lakefront park near <a href="https://stickmenbeer.com/lake-oswego/">Stickmen Brewing</a> and the historic <a href="https://laketheatercafe.com/">Lake Theater</a>. I was either meeting someone for lunch at the brewpub or for a movie, I forget which, and they were running late, and I noticed there was a.) a park where I didn't remember there being one before (it was built in 2011, which tells you how often I go wandering around in Lake Oswego), and b.) there was some public art in the park. So I wandered over for a quick look.</p>
<p>So this is <i><a href="https://locate.publicartarchive.org/art/Wormy-Apple-II">Wormy Apple II</a></i> (2009), by artist <a href="https://www.arts.wa.gov/artist-collection/?request=record;id=4402;type=701">Ed</a> <a href="https://www.arts.wa.gov/artist-collection/?request=record;id=4402;type=701">Humpherys</a> (1937-<a href="https://www.union-bulletin.com/obituaries/edward-ed-evert-humpherys/article_8278f1ca-9145-11e8-8880-db90949fee8b.html">2018</a>), which the city public art site describes thusly:</p>
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Purchased as part of the 1 1/2% for art for the lakefront park.
<br/><br/>Ed had a religious upbringing and was exposed for many years to the biblical story in Genesis of Adam, Eve, the apple, and the snake. Consequently many of his sculptures have apples, snakes or both. The viewer plays the role of Adam and Eve.
<br/><br/>In the beginning Ed Humphreys' intent was to create a series of linear sculptures that visually moved rhythmically around in actual space. Spherical forms were used at the ends of the linear components to visually act as an ending for the movement that was created (similar to using a period at the end of a written sentence). After the first sculpture was completed, Humphreys realized that the sculpture reminded him of apples with worms projecting from them.
<br/><br/>Gallery Without Walls 2007-2009
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<p>"Gallery Without Walls" is an ongoing city program where the <a href="https://artscouncillo.org/">Lake Oswego arts council</a> arranges to borrow a number of outdoor sculptures to exhibit around the city's downtown, usually on a two-year rotation. The art is typically for sale, and the city's walking tour brochure (here's the <a href="https://www.flipsnack.com/AAC75CDEFB5/2023-gww-brochure.html">current 2023 edition</a>) and other informational materials actually include price tags. So if you've ever dreamed of uprooting your favorite public art from a city park and taking it home, this is your big chance to do exactly that. (Athough that's probably not <i>quite</i> how it works in real life.) At the end of the rotation the city often buys a couple of the exhibited sculptures for its permanent collection, which is what happened with <i>Wormy Apple II</i> around 2009. It's kind of a cool program, though I'm not sure it's something many other cities could pull off. A place like Cornelius would probably be thrilled to have ever-changing art exhibits brightening up the place; it's just that the city doesn't have quite so many well-heeled art collectors as Lake Oswego does, and the city probably can't afford to insure the borrowed art, much less buy any of it.</p>
<p>Switching gears abruptly here, the search results I got back when researching this post included a couple of off-the-wall results I just had to pass along.</p>
<p>First up is Bulletin No. 68 from the Washington State Agricultural College's Experiment Station, dated 1905 and titled "The Wormy Apple", specifically <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ZN4pAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA11&ots=cYlrit3tSr&dq=%22wormy%20apple%20ii%22&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q=%22wormy%20apple%20ii%22&f=false">page 11</a>. That's an eleven, which looks enough like the Roman numeral II that Google figured there was no harm in sending me this result. So to combat the dreaded Codling worm, page eleven recommends a solution of 1 pound <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_green">Paris green</a> and 1-2 pounds lime to 150 gallons of water. Paris green being a beautiful and deadly green compound of copper and arsenic that was once used in artists' paint, fireworks, wallpaper, and even womens' clothing, in addition to being an effective general-purpose pesticide. Or to save money you could mix 1-4 pounds of white arsenic with one pound washing soda, and dissolve that in 100 gallons of water, which we're told works just as well for 1/3 the price. The page goes on to say <i>"A grave danger here is over-spraying, i.e. causing the liquid to gather in drops instead of depositing a uniform sediment."</i> (italics theirs), though the next sentence insists that "over-sprayed apples are not thoroughly poisoned", which is a bit less than reassuring.</p>
<p>Secondly, Google somehow concluded that "apple 2 computer" was a related search I might like to perform instead, or at least it's one they'd get more ad revenue from. Maybe it was just because of the "Apple" and the "II" in my actual search, or maybe the "Wormy" contributed too; it seems that four decades ago, way back in the distant year 1982, a Pennsylvania teenager wrote <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Cloner">Elk</a> <a href="https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/Elk-Cloner">Cloner</a>, a boot sector virus targeting Apple II computers, and it may have also been the very first malware to actually circulate in the wild. Calling it malware is kind of a stretch, honestly; it replicated itself to new disks, and every now and then it performed one of several annoying teen pranks. The second link above actually goes into great detail on how it managed all of this in a few kilobytes of code, which is kind of interesting. I trust, o Gentle Reader(s), that you won't use this newfound forbidden knowledge for anything, y'know, <i>untoward</i>.</p>
brx0http://www.blogger.com/profile/17988772767222837140noreply@blogger.com0Sundeleaf Plaza, 120 S State St, Lake Oswego, OR 97034, USA45.4168385 -122.663720317.106604663821152 -157.8199703 73.72707233617885 -87.5074703tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029943.post-70612302963084742942022-12-31T19:10:00.005-08:002022-12-31T19:10:57.808-08:00Instagram Cat Photos of 2022<p>Per recent tradition, the last post of the year here is simply a collection of cat photos I've posted over on the 'Gram. It seems better than writing a serious roundup of the last year, which would be incredibly tedious. Before drawing any conclusions from the photos, no, he isn't any goofier than last year, that's entirely the photographer's doing. Maybe I've gotten better at anticipating the derp and catching him in the act, I dunno. Anyway, Happy New Year!
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brx0http://www.blogger.com/profile/17988772767222837140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029943.post-38511250268951442272022-12-31T18:54:00.001-08:002022-12-31T18:54:24.115-08:00Miami Beach, Summer 2018<iframe src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/atul666/43320153054/in/set-72157712628524098/player/" width="700" height="700" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
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<p>And here we have a few more hot, summery Florida photos to go with the <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2022/12/miami-summer-2018.html">summer 2018 Miami photos</a> I just posted. This time the photos are from wandering around Miami Beach, which involves a surprisingly long bus ride from Miami proper. Again, it was a fun and interesting place to wander around playing tourist. I just don't have any very deep thoughts about the place. But hey, not every post here has to be me trying to theorize about something for twenty paragraphs, especially when it's New Years Eve and I'm just a post or two short of how many I did back in 2016. I'm sure nobody else cares about that particular goal besides me. Just putting it out there for full disclosure.</p>
<p>I will say that having this many Art Deco buildings in one place, with the usual Miami Deco color scheme, the overall effect gets to be a bit silly after a while. The smattering of 1980s postmodern buildings in the same color scheme, like the first photo above, somehow makes the overall effect even sillier. I said no theories, but my theory about that is that what architects' clients really wanted in the 80s were brand new Art Deco buildings, but with modern wiring and plumbing and so on, and they wanted that right up until they saw what all that attention to detail would cost in 1988. Also no architect under 40 wanted to work on paper anymore and things had advanced so you could get most of the job done on a decked-out Mac IIci, at least so long as you limited the design to a few simple shapes and colors. And out of necessity, a whole new style was born, along with dense art jargon explaining why it's the new One True Way. That's my theory, anyway.</p>
<p>Said theory is based largely on my own experience of trying to do creative stuff on a Mac back then. You'd have this feeling of unlimited possibilities -- and there really was a lot you could do even back then -- but inevitably you'd run into hardware limitations and have to scale things back until the machine would meet you kind of halfway. Wireframes that won't render. Spell checkers that get exponentially slower if your document is too big. Spending hours in PageMaker creating a concert poster for a coworker who needed one, scaling elaborate band logos just right, adjusting fonts by tenths of points, and so on, only to find that the office's low-end laser printer wasn't up to the job. Too many fonts, too much clip art, a few individual band logos that were way too rad and xtreme to be printable at any size. There was talk of going to Kinko's and trying to print from there, but that was Very Expensive, and the poster layout wouldn't quite fit on a floppy anyway, and I think the job eventually got done the old-school way, with tape and a photocopier.</p>
brx0http://www.blogger.com/profile/17988772767222837140noreply@blogger.com0Miami Beach, FL, USA25.790654 -80.1300455-2.5195798361788455 -115.2862955 54.100887836178842 -44.973795499999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029943.post-38758491235394535052022-12-31T17:34:00.000-08:002022-12-31T17:34:25.499-08:00Miami, Summer 2018<iframe src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/atul666/44174984895/in/set-72157715504997738/player/" width="700" height="700" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
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<p>For anyone who's tired of all the cold and gloom this time of year, here are some warm summery photos I took in Miami back in 2018. I was in Florida for the launch of the <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2018/08/parker-solar-probe-launch-august-12th.html">Parker Solar Probe</a>, and had (wisely, as it turned out) built a few extra days into my travel plans in case of launch delays. Ultimately the launch only slipped by a day and then went off without a hitch, so I had a couple of days to burn before flying home. I decided to head south since I'd never been there before, and did a little sightseeing. So this set of photos is from Miami itself, as in the mainland, actual city part. I did wander over to Miami Beach one day, and took another day to go see the Everglades, but those are separate posts I haven't posted yet. Some of these are from walking around (albeit not very far, because heat & humidity), with a few swanky hotel balcony photos mixed in. Overall it was a fun side trip, though I can't say I have any unique or intersting insights to share about the place. So, er, enjoy the photos.brx0http://www.blogger.com/profile/17988772767222837140noreply@blogger.com0SE 2nd Ave & S Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33131, USA25.771114 -80.1901256-2.5391198361788447 -115.3463756 54.08134783617885 -45.0338756tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029943.post-27208186678563867302022-12-31T16:41:00.002-08:002023-01-01T14:19:07.586-08:00A Park<iframe src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/atul666/51480633948/in/set-72157719852915514/player/" width="700" height="700" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
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<p>Next up we're visiting another Portland city park, this time in SW Portland a bit off Barbur. It's your basic ballfields-and-playground arrangement; I usually don't bother with these, and to be honest with you we're only visiting this one because of its name. Or rather, the lack of a name. The official city parks website just calls it "<a href="https://www.portland.gov/parks/park">A Park</a>". Until December 2020 the park was known as "Custer Park" after the infamous general, but then outgoing city commissioner Amanda Fritz removed the embarrassing name by executive order.</p>
<p>Now, naming or renaming things in Portland is a long and complex process involving public hearings and consulting everyone who could possibly count as a stakeholder. But thanks to a quirk in city ordinances it's apparently quite trivial to <i>un-name</i> things. The city commissioner with Parks & Recreation in their portfolio simply announces that a name has been yoinked away, and poof, it's gone. Of course the risk with doing this on your way out the door is that the next Parks Commissioner won't necessarily put the same priority on doing the harder part, coming up with a new name for the place. Thus the park has gone without any official name for the last two years.</p></p>
<p>Some local news stories about the 2020 yoinking:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/12/portlands-custer-park-will-get-new-name-its-called-a-park-for-now.html">Oregonian</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/fritz-southwest-portlands-custer-park-will-be-renamed/">KOIN</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theskanner.com/news/newsbriefs/30765-commissioner-fritz-directs-portland-parks-rec-to-remove-the-name-custer-park/amp">The Skanner</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/12/02/city-commissioner-amanda-fritz-declares-custer-park-will-no-longer-have-that-name/">Willamette Week</a></li>
<li><a href="https://katu.com/news/local/commissioner-fritz-directs-the-name-custer-park-in-sw-portland-to-be-removed">KATU</a></li>
<li><a href="https://1190kex.iheart.com/featured/portland-local-news/content/2020-12-02-portlands-custer-park-now-a-park/">KEX Radio</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.hillsdalenewspdx.com/post/the-park-formerly-known-as-custer">Hillsdale News</a> (which also did a <a href="https://www.hillsdalenewspdx.com/post/readers-respond-to-name-changes">followup story</a>)</li>
</ul>
<p>This naturally showed up on the park's (non-renamed) <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/custer-park-portland">Yelp page</a>, and a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/k5x6kq/city_commissioner_amanda_fritz_declares_custer/">Reddit r/Portland thread</a>, with a few examples of the usual conservative shrieking, though this may have been more subdued than usual due to Custer's <a href="https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/george-armstrong-custer">earlier work</a> in ending the Confederacy. Still, it may please them to know Custer still has <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Armstrong_Custer#Monuments_and_memorials">lots of stuff named after him</a>, including a very imposing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Bighorn_Battlefield_National_Monument#/media/File:Little_Bighorn_memorial_obelisk.jpg">2nd place participation trophy</a> at the Little Bighorn battlefield itself.</p>
<p>Closer to home, a street nearby still goes by <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/ssiymSN6zbmC7USz6">SW Custer Drive</a>, and there are bits and pieces of street named SW Custer St. stretching from the river all the way west to city limits, though never more than a few blocks at a time due to the hilly terrain. None of those have been renamed yet, though the name has been <a href="https://www.hillsdalenewspdx.com/post/planners-drop-gen-george-custer-s-name-for-hillsdale-max-station">preemptively removed</a> from a <a href="https://trimet.org/swcorridor/route/13th.htm">future MAX station</a> planned for the Hillsdale area, on the theory that the street will likely be renamed too before the new line opens. The first newspaper mention I found of streets named Custer was <a href="https://proxy.multcolib.org:2489/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A11A73E5827618330%2540EANX-NB-12385792D38F4748%25402414275-1231FD2836A063E8%25407-125986684AB0930D%2540Calm%252BAnd%252BPeaceful%252BCity%252BCouncil%252BGets%252BThrough%252BWithout%252BA%252BRow.%252BScheme%252Bto%252BEstablish%252Ba%252BFree/hlterms%3A%2522custer%2520street%2522">small item from 1897</a> about Fulton Park, so it already existed at that point. This was a brief mention in a list of recent city council actions, and the next item concerned legalizing fireworks within city limits for a couple of weeks in January for Chinese New Year. That sounds unusually progressive for 1897 Portland, so I imagine the non-Chinese population just saw it as another chance to be reckless and irresponsible with fireworks, which is always a winner here.</p>
<p>The lack of a name doesn't mean the city's neglecting the place, by the way; there's a proposal to give it a <a href="https://www.portland.gov/sites/default/files/2021/a-park-nature-patch-draft-concept.pdf">nature</a> <a href="https://www.portland.gov/parks/news/2021/4/28/portland-parks-commissioner-carmen-rubio-directs-investments-several-portland">patch</a>, one of the new commissioner's pet projects. There's also a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200805095552/https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bes/79134">proposed stormwater facility</a> that would be near or possibly conflicting with the nature patch, which might explain why the stormwater project was on hold last time I checked.</p>
<p>So here we are at the end of 2022, and the park still doesn't have a name. Around the time of the de-naming there was a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/director-of-portland-parks-and-recreation-attention-marketing-and-business-development-manager-rename-custer-park-in-sw-portland-to-beatrice-morrow-cannady-park">change.org petition</a> with a specific new name in mind, but I'm reasonably sure Portland (like most major cities) has a blanket policy of not responding to change.org petitions. Although it will get you signed up for endless fundraising emails until the heat death of the universe, so there's that to consider.</p>
<p>I should point out that renaming things in Portland isn't always this hard. Around the same time this park was de-Custer-ified, a park in outer SE Portland was renamed from <a href="https://katu.com/news/local/lynchview-park-renamed-after-prominent-black-female-leader">renamed</a> from "Lynchview Park" to "Verdell Burdine Rutherford Park" without the park going nameless for years first. And it's not as if the park was ever actually a place to come and view lynchings; if I remember right, it was just named for some unremarkable midcentury developer or landowner named Lynch. But still, the name doesn't exactly sound good to contemporary ears. And before anyone goes on a rant about 21st century people being so oversensitive, there's a local precedent. Back in 1966, the city was about to get a couple of new city parks as part of the South Auditorium urban renewal project, and it was decided to name them after early pioneers who had staked out the original settler land claims in what's now downtown Portland. There were three of these guys: Asa Lovejoy, Francis Pettygrove, and Stephen Coffin. Let's see if you can guess which of the three isn't honored with a city park or anything else being named after him. Not because he was a notably bad person, but because "Coffin Park" just really, really doesn't sound good.</p>
<p>In any case, the very latest in the naming situation came back in August of ths year, when the city
<a href="https://www.swcommconnection.com/news/public-invited-to-help-rename-southwest-portland-park-and-pool/article_d298aaef-0e94-54a6-80fc-91d071680c1e.html">asked the public for suggestions</a>, explaining that the kinds of names they were looking for should:</p>
<blockquote><i>
• reflect and inspire the community
• honor Native and Indigenous communities
• are symbolic or significant
• create a sense of community and inclusion
• are future facing and imagine a Portland for all
</i></blockquote>
<p>So it's possible there's already a new name in the works and they just haven't announced it yet. Or maybe voters approving a complete revamp of how city government works threw a wrench into the works, since city bureaus won't be under individual commissioners anymore. Maybe it seemed better to leave the renaming until after the revamp happens. Or maybe they just didn't get any good suggestions and aren't sure where to go from here.</p>
<p>Before they announced that process, I had taken a look at old county survey records to see if there were any interesting (and non-murdery) historical names associated with the area that might at least be inoffensive enough to make it through . There were a couple that might work, but nothing really stood out, and none of those would really "honor Native and Indigenous communities", and I really like that idea. So I kicked that research down to a <a href="#apark-fn1">footnote</a> in case they do rename the streets someday, or maybe if the neighborhood gets a second park someday and it needs a name.</p>
<p>Or, I dunno, if the city can't come up with a good, appropriate name, maybe we should just leave it as "A Park" forever, like the old <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/05/business/no-frills-no-sales.html">generic</a> <a href="http://gbnfgroceries.blogspot.com/2014/01/from-misc-foods-aisle-generic-brands.html">brand items</a> stores used to carry in the 1970s and 1980s, the ones with the white label and black letters that just said "Lima Beans" or "Beer" or whatever was inside. (Apparently this practice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Name_%28brand%29">still exists in Canada</a>, except the labels are yellow, metric, and bilingual.) I mean, if it works for lima beans, why <i>can't</i> it work for a whole city park?</p>
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<p>So that's about all I've got on the name front, but I did run across a few news items and historical odds and ends along the way, so there they are mostly-chronologically:</p>
<ul>
<li>1959: the city decided it <a href="https://proxy.multcolib.org:2489/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A11A73E5827618330%2540EANX-NB-12C1C02C27E297C4%25402436701-12BE7066284A02D5%254035-12BE7066284A02D5%2540/hlterms%3A%2522custer%2520park%2522">maybe ought to rent some port-a-potties</a> for this and a few other parks for Little League games, so people wouldn't have to go find a bush during the 7th inning stretch. It must have been an exceedingly slow news day. This is the first mention of the park in the newspaper, though it had existed for five years at that point.</li>
<li>1962: the city must have installed actual restrooms shortly afterward, as local residents <a href="https://proxy.multcolib.org:2489/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A130FB78394A04B53%2540EANX-NB-16EA68EA159CD9E6%25402437960-16E8F6E946A6CF67%25401-16E8F6E946A6CF67%2540/hlterms%3A%2522custer%2520park%2522">were annoyed</a>, though, as in the immediate wake of the Columbus Day Storm the restrooms had power restored before their houses did.</li>
<li>A couple of <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=21bfbDwajNoC&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=portland+%22custer+park%22&source=bl&ots=yCE2gCu2gk&sig=ACfU3U0_m71BjMZK2bcP9jef7JO0Nafsnw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj68qis0oLzAhWHJDQIHV8GAuk4WhDoAXoECAwQAw#v=onepage&q=%22custer%20park%22&f=false">sorta-vintage photos of the park</a> from 1963 and 1975, looking about the same as now but with smaller trees and vintage cars.</li>
<li>Things got pretty exciting here in July 1969, when the park <a href="https://proxy.multcolib.org:2489/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A11A73E5827618330%2540EANX-NB-12FF648174DB58DE%25402440430-12FEBC9B759F35E0%254019-12FEBC9B759F35E0%2540/hlterms%3A%2522custer%2520park%2522">hosted a city-sponsored "Flower Children Carnival"</a>. The blurb describes it: "Featured will be booths, rides, and tennis golf, a game created by Park Bureau staffer Neil Owens.". I can't tell if it was aimed at kids or hippies, reading that.</li>
<li>A <a href="https://proxy.multcolib.org:2489/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A130FB78394A04B53%2540EANX-NB-16EF84CAE4CAED68%25402440431-16EEDA6E44034AD0%25403-16EEDA6E44034AD0%2540/hlterms%3A%2522custer%2520park%2522">longer and snarkier item</a> in the Journal about the same event,
<br/><br/>
<blockquote><i>
<SPAN STYLE="font-family:'Comic Sans'">
Your city has not forgotten you, flower children. Wednesday from 1 to 5 pm your very own “Flower Children Carnival” is scheduled at Custer Park, SW 21st Ave. and Capitol Hill Road. It will be sponsored by the City of Portland Bureau of Parks and Public Recreation.
<br/><br/>See, you ARE loved, after all!
<br/><br/>They’ll have booths to test your skill, to go fishing, and many others. Amusement rides will be bountiful… such as the caterpillar-covered merry-go-round, the slide tunnel and others.
<br/><br/>There will even be a putt-putt for those who get their jollies from tennis golf (a game created by Neil Owens of the Park Bureau staff).
<br/><br/>So, as the park folks say in their announcement, “all beautiful people gather and come to Custer Park” Wednesday. (Don’t take that “beautiful” part too literally — you’re all invited.)
</SPAN>
</i></blockquote>
</li>
<li>A <a href="https://proxy.multcolib.org:2489/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A130FB78394A04B53%2540EANX-NB-16EF90EFB3023F12%25402441518-16EF2E0536AAFDD7%25401-16EF2E0536AAFDD7%2540/hlterms%3A%2522custer%2520park%2522">crafting for kids event</a> in 1972</li>
<li>June 1973, in another city-sponsored event, the park hosted a <a href="https://proxy.multcolib.org:2489/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A11A73E5827618330%2540EANX-NB-13117F8EF2C585A4%25402441853-130FCFAAF39C615A%254027-130FCFAAF39C615A%2540/hlterms%3A%2522custer%2520park%2522">performance by a traveling mime troupe</a>, which would include their original adaptation of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VexKSRKoWQY">"The Red Balloon"</a>. Because 1973. I got to see the original in grade school a couple of times, I guess on the theory that kids love anything containing balloons. Watching it in 2022 as an adult, it just makes me think of all the marine life harmed by eating balloons that drifted out to sea and deflated, and the planet rapidly running out of helium.</li>
<li>A 1976 letter to the editor, in which a visitor from Madras, OR <a href="https://proxy.multcolib.org:2489/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A11A73E5827618330%2540EANX-NB-131D0CCC073B28B0%25402442780-131B512401AA5F11%254021-131B512401AA5F11%2540/hlterms%3A%2522custer%2520park%2522">complained</a> about people not cleaning up after their dogs in the park.</li>
<li>A <a href="https://proxy.multcolib.org:2489/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F0EB08A709600B4B8">late 1990s neighborhood conflict</a> over a longtime unofficial right-of-way into the park from the north. It seems residents thought it was public property, but it wasn't, and the new owner closed it as part of a renovation project. A followup said <a href="https://proxy.multcolib.org:2489/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F0EB08B6ADB4F680E">he'd had a change of heart</a> & wanted to work with the neighborhood association on restoring some sort of access, though a <a href="http://www4.multco.us/Surveyimages/Partitions/PN2000-2009/PN2001-052.PDF">2000 subdivision plat</a> for that spot doesn't show an easement, and I didn't see a path on Street View or by walking past where I imagine it would have been if it still existed. So who knows.</li>
<ul>
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<small>
<p><a name="apark-fn1">A</a> while back I took a look at county survey records to see if maybe there were any historical names -- of the non-murdery variety this time -- associated with the area that might work as a replacement. So the first attempted subdivision of the area was in 1891, when the land around the park was <a href="http://www4.multco.us/Surveyimages/Plats/PL0000-0499/PL0163-029-030.PDF">platted as "Ma Belle Park"</a>. Evidently that didn't take off, and it was vacated piece by piece starting <a href="http://www4.multco.us/Surveyimages/Plats/PL0500-0999/PL0622-051-052.PDF">around 1916</a>. Still, it has "Park" right there in the name, so "Ma Belle Park" might work. The same area was later re-subdivided as "Raz Hill" starting in <a href="http://www4.multco.us/Surveyimages/Plats/PL1000-1199/PL1074-034.PDF">March 1927</a>, expanded in <a href="http://www4.multco.us/Surveyimages/Plats/PL1000-1199/PL1180-025.PDF">December 1945</a> mostly south and east of the park, with a smaller "<a href="http://www4.multco.us/Surveyimages/Plats/PL1260-1279/PL1264-004.PDF">Raz</a> <a href="http://www4.multco.us/Surveyimages/Plats/PL1260-1279/PL1264-005.PDF">Estates</a>" to the north.</p>
<p>Next to Raz Estates an <a href="http://www4.multco.us/Surveyimages/Plats/PL1000-1199/PL1190-027.PDF">"Alpine View"</a> was platted in 1957. Portland doesn't have have an "Alpine View Park" so that might work too, though it sounds a bit generic, and someone ought to check on a sunny day and verify there's still is an alpine view from the park, as that could have changed in the last 65 years. "Raz Park" would make sense too; not only were they the previous landowners before suburbia got here, but were later involved in the creation of nearby <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2014/11/stephens-creek-nature-park.html">Stephens Creek Nature Park</a>. Though in general I think we're better served by not naming anything after people for a while. The oldest regular land survey I see for the area is from <a href="http://www4.multco.us/Surveyimages/Survey/00000-01999/00010.PDF">1871</a>, just the 10th survey registered with Multnomah County. It's just a brief handwritten note though, adn the handwriting is fairly illegible, so no luck there. A 1920 road survey, in which today's Capitol Hill Road was surveyed as <a href="http://www4.multco.us/Surveyimages/Roads/RD0000-0999/RD0876-MAP.PDF">County Road #876</a>, called the area due south of here "Latourette", centered roughly on where the Barbur Safeway stands now. That may have just been the name for a streetcar stop and not a neighborhood; either way it was probably someone's name and again, name moratorium.</p>
<p>Several more survey records in connection with building the new subdivision in the early 1950s. The first, in 1952, calls the area <a href="http://www4.multco.us/Surveyimages/Survey/04000-05999/04406.PDF">the "Raz tract"</a>, while a
<a href="http://www4.multco.us/Surveyimages/Survey/08000-09999/08427.PDF">1954 revision</a> vacated a few of the roads proposed earlier, and
<a href="http://www4.multco.us/Surveyimages/Survey/08000-09999/09200.PDF">another tweak a few months later</a> shows a "Proposed Park", half the size of the current park. After that, my guess would be someone realized that a park just big enough for a Little League diamond is going to result in a lot of errant fly balls through windows and made the park bigger.</p>
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<p>This photoset is just some graffiti on a midcentury warehouse in industrial SE Portland. It's not part of a wider project, and it also isn't social commentary about anything at all. I just happened to notice it when I was in the right mood and liked the combination of the aggregate texture with the dark grey glossy paint (probably over previous graffiti) and then the purple and hot pink graffiti layered on top of that, and the fact that it got this way thru a completely adversarial series of events. I don't think anyone involved was going for a "look", including whoever added the latest color bits, which are strictly low-end, so-and-so-was-here stuff.</p>
<p>If I've sold you on the look, or at least the idea of it, and you want to go see for yourself, or maybe you think it would appeal to anonymous art collectors and money launderers in Zurich or Dubai, and you're about to send in your jackhammer goon squad, er, street art extraction team, you're probably out of luck. I took these photos months ago and (although I haven't gone back to check) it just stands to reason that it's been painted over at least once since then, with who knows what. And (as far as I know) the technology doesn't exist yet to pick apart all the paint layers to be framed and sold separately, as incredibly lucrative as that would be.</p>
<p>At that point my brain went off on a tangent and dreamed up a Next Generation episode on that theme, and I don't have any more material for this post, so I might as well tell you what it is. Ok, so the Enterprise shows up at the planet of the week, which has two long-warring continents. At one point centuries ago the forces of continent A captured a priceless painting belonging to continent B, and a completely different but equally priceless masterpiece was then painted on top of the original out of pure spite, and it's been a major bone of contention ever since. Picard volunteers to have Geordi separate the two paintings with the transporter, both completely unharmed, which is obviously very delicate work and might involve remodulating the phase inverters or some such. Continent A's national museum curator (a very aggravating person) reluctantly agrees, and it seems to go well at first, but right at the end a transporter accident turns both paintings to piles of dust, or so it appears. A major diplomatic incident ensues, and the locals arrest Geordi or maybe Picard, and a renewed global war looms. Closer investigation reveals a second transporter beam, traced to offworld art thieves in league with the curator, and the crew has to perform an even trickier transporter thing to get both paintings back unharmed, like somehow beaming them out of a sealed cargo hold on a cloaked ship at warp 8, swapping them out for other paintings of exactly equal mass without the subterfuge being detected. Maybe a quick Raiders of the Lost Ark in-joke happens at this point, seeing as they're both Paramount franchises. The crew pulls it off, the thieves' ship is last seen entering Orion Syndicate territory, still unaware of the swap, and everyone else lives happily ever. Right at the end we learn the replacements were a velvet Elvis and a painting of dogs playing poker, both from Riker's personal collection.</p>
brx0http://www.blogger.com/profile/17988772767222837140noreply@blogger.com02820 SE 8th Ave, Portland, OR 97202, USA45.502235 -122.657419945.50185901691917 -122.65795634180297 45.502610983080828 -122.65688345819702tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029943.post-19423679261825871392022-12-23T17:45:00.006-08:002022-12-23T17:45:36.648-08:00Path of Bliss<iframe src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/atul666/52582322753/in/set-72177720304680301/player/" width="700" height="700" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
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<p>Next up we have another -- yes, another -- street mural at an intersection in inner SE Portland. This one's at SE 19th & Clinton St., and I had no idea it existed until I stumbled across it literally yesterday. (To clarify, for fellow pedants: Encountering it for the first time yesterday is literal; the part about stumbling is strictly figurative.). This one is supposed be sort of a mandala design, and the intersection where it's located is right outside the <a href="https://www.newdayschool.org/">New Day School</a>, an alternative grade school based on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_utilization_theory">ideas</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prabhat_Ranjan_Sarkar">P.R. Sarkar</a>, 20th century Indian philosopher.</p>
<p>I think I missed this one until now because it was first painted in 2017 (per <a href="https://saferclinton.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/paint-clinton-street/">this blog post</a>), after I had finished most of the street mural posts here and moved on to other things. It was <a href="https://villagebuildingconvergence.com/se-clinton-19th-path-of-bliss-repainting">repainted</a> in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/486030615270708/">June 2019</a>, the summer before COVID-19 arrived. Street murals going un-repainted since then seems to be very common, whether out of an abundance of residual caution, or lack of volunteers, or maybe people are just tired of performing civility and pretending to like their neighbors. Who knows.</p>
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<p>So this post marks one of those extremely rare occasions where I actually wrap up a series of posts, without leaving any unfinished ones forgotten in Drafts or letting the project scope creep out of control so it can never finish at all. Or at least that <i>will</i> be true assuming I can get this one finished. This series covers a group of mostly-nameless seasonal waterfalls along the Sandy River stretch of the Historic Columbia River Highway. To recap, this was part of a mid-pandemic effort to find obscure and less-visited places to go, in order to get outside while avoiding all other human beings to the greatest possible degree. That worked out really well in a lot of places but not here, exactly, as people kept stopping to take photos of whatever I was taking photos of. Ok, technically it happened twice.
So far we've had a look at:
<ul><li>Keanes Creek Falls, the southernmost of the five</li>
<li><a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2022/12/city-limit-falls.html">City Limit Falls</a>, the northernmost of the bunch</li>
<li><a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2022/12/north-roadside-falls.html">North Roadside Falls</a>, continuing south from there</li>
<li><a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2022/12/middle-roadside-falls.html">Middle Roadside Falls</a>, apparently the tallest one, if you trust my math and map-point-picking skills</li>
</ul>
<p>And this one finishes the set, unless you count a couple of others that are so seasonal that they only seem to run literally in the middle of big winter storms. Which to me just doesn't seem worth pursuing.</p>
<p>Heightwise, given the <a href="https://gis.dogami.oregon.gov/maps/lidarviewer/?marker=-122.36744873752359%2C45.51946018956596%2C%2C%2C%2C&markertemplate=%7B%22title%22%3A317%2C%22longitude%22%3A-122.36744873752359%2C%22latitude%22%3A45.51946018956596%2C%22isIncludeShareUrl%22%3Atrue%7D&level=16">top</a> (167.75' / 162.25') and <a href="https://gis.dogami.oregon.gov/maps/lidarviewer/?marker=-122.36767940749876%2C45.519467706906376%2C%2C%2C%2C&markertemplate=%7B%22title%22%3A317%2C%22longitude%22%3A-122.36767940749876%2C%22latitude%22%3A45.519467706906376%2C%22isIncludeShareUrl%22%3Atrue%7D&level=16">bottom</a> (61.45' / 61.22'), the math says it's around 100.8 - 106.5 feet high. Which, possibly.</p>
<p>You might notice that the highway shoulder is especially wide along this stretch of road. It turns out the stretch of riverbank through here is a small Metro-owned public park, and it's here to provide public river access, specifically public fishing access. There aren't any signs around that say this, but there's plenty of room to park, and usually a car or truck or two parked here, so I guess enough people find out about the place by word of mouth. This is actually not the only spot like this; depending on whose map you look at there are either three (lettered A thru C) or five (numbered 1-5) of them, all on the east bank of the Sandy, and located between the Stark St. & Troutdale bridges.</p>
<p>And if this doesn't sound like a very Metro thing to do, you're absolutely right; these sites were part of the old Multnomah County park system before Metro absorbed it in 1994, and you can check out <a href="https://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2008/09/mason-hill-park-expedition.html">a 2008 post of mine</a> for more than you probably care to know about that whole thing. I couldn't find any info on when the county may have purchased these places, the closest data point I have is a <p>a <a href="https://infoweb-newsbank-com.proxy.multcolib.org/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=EANX-NB&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A11A73E5827618330%2540EANX-NB-12D639708DDA867D%25402438117-12D52A58E09BED86%254023-12D52A58E09BED86%2540/hlterms%3A%2522multnomah%2520county%2520park%2522%2520%2522sandy%2520river%2522">March 1963 Oregonian article</a> about the county's ambitious new parks plan, with a map showing roughly where the county's new parks would be. Their focus at the time was on adding neighborhood parks to serve then-unincorporated parts of the county, and the only ones, current or proposed, east of the Sandy would have been neighborhood playground-type ones in the Springdale and Corbett areas. The river access parcels aren't mentioned and don't appear on the map, so either the county hadn't bought them yet, or river access fell under a separate budget category or a whole different department and didn't count.</p>
<p>As I understand it, the rationale behind these fishing spots is that the Sandy might be the best river for salmon in the region, and the stretch between the two bridges is possibly the best part of the river, and it would be undemocratic to have it limited people who can afford to own a boat, or build a house on the river. For many years the state prohibited fishing from boats anywhere upstream of the Stark St. bridge for similar reasons, the idea being boaters had an unfair advantage over people fishing on the riverbank when both were allowed. So when the state pushed the no-boats boundary back four miles to Oxbow Park in <a href="https://infoweb-newsbank-com.proxy.multcolib.org/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=EANX-NB&req_dat=0D10F2CADB4B24C0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A11A73E5827618330%2540EANX-NB-132B217DF495A567%25402447144-1328A2ADBA77CB43%254037-1328A2ADBA77CB43%2540/hlterms%3Aoxbow%2520viking%2520bridge%2520bank%2520angling">December 1987</a>, some people reacted like democracy itself was being eroded in favor of rich people always getting whatever they want. And who knows, maybe that really was an early symptom on the way to January 6th 2021. This happened in the middle of the Reagan-Bush era, when a lot of little things like this happened, so the timing's spot on, at least.</p>
<p>Anyway, here's the list, starting here and heading downstream:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.portlandmaps.com/detail/assessor/E-HIST-COLUMBIA-RIVER-HWY/R322473_did/">Unit C</a> (1.21 acres, aka <a href="https://mapcarta.com/W142303604">unit 4</a>) is where we're at now. If I'm reading it right, a <a href="https://www.ifish.net/threads/sandy-river-bank-access.154109/post-1538988">2007 iFish forum post</a> is saying this place is called "The Willows" out in the real world.</li>
<li><a href="https://mapcarta.com/W142303603">Unit 5</a> is not actually river access, but <a href="https://www.portlandmaps.com/detail/assessor/E-HIST-COLUMBIA-RIVER-HWY/R322441_did/">two</a> <a href="https://www.portlandmaps.com/detail/assessor/E-HIST-COLUMBIA-RIVER-HWY/R503978_did/">tiny</a> pieces of land on the waterfall side of the road, 0.11 and 0.01 acres respectively, with the larger one possibly including the falls we came here to look at. For anyone who missed the wrong day in grade school weights and measures class, one one-hundredth of an acre is equal to about 344 square feet, equivalent to an 18.5' square. </li>
<li>As for <a href="https://mapcarta.com/W142319038">unit 2</a>? Maps that have the sites numbered it show it as a long and extremely skinny bit of riverbank, roughly the whole stretch between City Limit Falls and North Roadside Falls, while maps that give the sites letters don't show this one at all, and PortlandMaps has it listed as <a href="https://www.portlandmaps.com/detail/assessor/W-SIDE-E-HIST-COLUMBIA-RIVER-HWY/R322470_did/">private property</a>, so I'm not sure what's going on here. I think the forum post from above is saying this area goes by "Duck Hole", unless maybe the highway speed limit signs have moved around since 2007. Google seems to think it's a popular place, or at least one that gets talked about a lot, so I dunno. I guess my point here is that if you want to know more about it (and what the legal situation is, etc.) your best bet is to go ask someone who actually knows what they're talking about, because I sure don't.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.portlandmaps.com/detail/assessor/E-HIST-COLUMBIA-RIVER-HWY/R287101_did/">Unit B</a> (0.43 acres, aka <a href="https://mapcarta.com/W142317658">unit 3</a>) is further downstream, right around the (relatively) busy intersection of the Columbia River Highway & Woodard Road. Thing is, there's not really anywhere to park around this one, and there are several "No Parking" signs are posted on both streets just in case anyone even thinks about trying it. So this one may be more of a locals-only thing. Or maybe it isn't a thing at all; I am absolutely clueless about the fish situation here, and you're on your own for that.</li>
<li>And finally there's <a href="https://www.portlandmaps.com/detail/assessor/1785-N-E-HIST-COLUMBIA-RIVER-HWY/R287107_did/">Unit A</a> (0.1 acres, aka <a href="https://mapcarta.com/W142317657">unit 1</a>), which may have been public access at one point but is now home to a boat launch for the Multnomah County Sheriff's River Patrol, accessed from a shared driveway to the south that's clearly posted No Trespassing. Given what the river patrol does, and the kind of river the Sandy is, the place is probably haunted too. I mean, if you believe in that sort of thing, and I'm not saying I do.</li>
</ul>
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