Category: History
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With the Grasshopper Fire shifting west and toward Mount Hood earlier this week, this historic image of Mirror Lake sometime in the 1920s came to mind. It’s a Benjamin Gifford photo, among the thousands that he and his son Ralph published over their combined careers as Oregon photographers (this is a colorized version of the original).…
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It’s not often that “Road Work Ahead” signs are a welcome sight, but such is the case with the historic Cloud Cap Road, where the Forest Service is completing the first significant maintenance in 17 years. It remains a rough, primitive road in character with the surrounding historic district that includes the iconic 1889 Cloud…
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As much as I try to acknowledge all comments on the WyEast Blog, I sometimes stumble across comments posted years after the original article that slip through the cracks. In the case of Gary Fields’ comment (in 2013 and shown below) on this article on the Mount Hood Lily (posted four years prior, in 2009) I didn’t…
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Butte Creek is a bit of a hidden gem in WyEast Country, located on land managed by the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) and accessed via a maze of logging roads. Amid miles of clearcuts on both public and private lands in all directions, the ODF has set aside the steep canyon surrounding Butte Creek…
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The headwaters of the White River begin in a vast maze of sandy canyons that fan out below the White River Glacier, located on Mount Hood’s south side. The geologic story here is surprisingly new. Few hikers making their way up the west rim of this maze on the Timberline Trail realize that much of…
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