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Mt. Hood. Dunno how many times I've posted a pic of this thing, but it's so close to Portland that it's usually the first area I head to when I want to camp. At the time of this picture I was trying to find an alternate route to a remote campsite and wasn't quite sure where I was.
Now this is how logging should be done, leaving lots of big trees scattered about. Often logggers will leave the required number of trees only along the edges and clear out the middle Difficult to tell if it was just a fire, logged, or logged and burned. Fireweed (the purple flowers) makes it all the better.
Summit Lake, the campground I eventually ended up at. No one was there the entire three days I camped. Fish were jumping, ducks playing with each other woke me up at dawn, and the campsite was right up against the water.
Mt. Hood. Dunno how many times I've posted a pic of this thing, but it's so close to Portland that it's usually the first area I head to when I want to camp. At the time of this picture I was trying to find an alternate route to a remote campsite and wasn't quite sure where I was.
Now this is how logging should be done, leaving lots of big trees scattered about. Often logggers will leave the required number of trees only along the edges and clear out the middle Difficult to tell if it was just a fire, logged, or logged and burned. Fireweed (the purple flowers) makes it all the better.
Summit Lake, the campground I eventually ended up at. No one was there the entire three days I camped. Fish were jumping, ducks playing with each other woke me up at dawn, and the campsite was right up against the water.
2 comments:
Was Mt Hood and old volcano? it looks like it? The timbercutters do the same here, make it look good at the front and then just clear fell the rest - most companies seem to be owned by the japanese or China out here...which is just ridiculuous.
We've just swung into spring and today is just perfect.
MC, Mt. Hood is an active volcano, though it hasn't had an eruption since white people settled here. It's in the same mountain chain as Mt. St. Helens which you may recall erupted in 1980 or 81 and continues to have many small eruptions. It's strange how some mountains have constant eruptions and some only every few hundred years. Fascinating stuff the geological study of volcanoes.
What are they building in Japan and China that requires so much damn wood from Australia and America? Most of the clearcutting that goes on now in Oregon and the rest of the northwest is shipped over to Asia, too. The logging companies use, "but what will you build your houses with?" when rebutting local criticisms of logging techniques and blame environmentalists for protecting the "widdle animals" before people for their financial failure. So frustrating how big business defeats everyone else at everyone else's expense.
It's looking like fall here, with a beautiful, warm - but not hot - and clear day.
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