Category: Mount Hood
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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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Sometimes a photo brings back a vivid personal memory completely disconnected from what you might see in an image. Such as the case with this early winter view from rocky viewpoint along the Gumjuwac Trail, on the west shoulder of Lookout Mountain and within the protected Badger Creek Wilderness. Much of the climb to this…
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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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