Tuesday along the Rogue River
Submitted by PriceRip on Wed, 08/24/2016 - 12:44am
Reading road cuts is not my forte. I can natter on about the order, and characteristics of events that generated some features but for the most part I am an ignorant twit with respect to geological processes. But, I bet I could find some interesting isotopic ratios to catalogue in this part of the world.
I understand that some people think "rivers cut valleys" rather than "rivers flow through fissures" in the landscape. Why is that the case?
When I see smooth water I am conditioned to think, "Bad!", dammed well regulated rivers are dying rivers. The Rogue River is a wild and free river to a point upstream of my home in Medford thanks to some very good friends I have yet to meet for the first time.
No two Road Cuts are the same. Oregon is a very diverse state from a particular point of view.
This "curve to the right" - "curve to the left" "S" shaped bridge is an interesting architectural feature as well as an interesting engineering feature. Without it this would be a rather uninteresting landscape.
The trail beckons. This is rapidly becoming one of my favorite places.
Sublime . . . yea . . . I think that is the word.
Returning from the North, I am reminded that, at 9495 feet, this steep-sided lava cone on top of a composite volcano towers more than 8000 feet over my rather tiny stick build home in Medford.
I was thinking this should be titled: Death is the Destination, only the Journey is Meaningful, but maybe that's a bit too macabre for people that don't really know me.
A bridge is a perfect metaphor for a journey. Can you get to the other side? Should you get to the other side? Why would you want to get to the other side? If you go to the other side where is the other side now? This bridge supports a few meters of the Merlin-Galice Road along the Rogue River North of Grants Pass, Oregon. In context, it is so very insignificant.
Reading road cuts is not my forte. I can natter on about the order, and characteristics of events that generated some features but for the most part I am an ignorant twit with respect to geological processes. But, I bet I could find some interesting isotopic ratios to catalogue in this part of the world.
I understand that some people think "rivers cut valleys" rather than "rivers flow through fissures" in the landscape. Why is that the case?
When I see smooth water I am conditioned to think, "Bad!", dammed well regulated rivers are dying rivers. The Rogue River is a wild and free river to a point upstream of my home in Medford thanks to some very good friends I have yet to meet for the first time.
No two Road Cuts are the same. Oregon is a very diverse state from a particular point of view.
This "curve to the right" - "curve to the left" "S" shaped bridge is an interesting architectural feature as well as an interesting engineering feature. Without it this would be a rather uninteresting landscape.
The trail beckons. This is rapidly becoming one of my favorite places.
Sublime . . . yea . . . I think that is the word.
Returning from the North, I am reminded that, at 9495 feet, this steep-sided lava cone on top of a composite volcano towers more than 8000 feet over my rather tiny stick build home in Medford.
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Beautiful Oregon
I've been to Oregon twice in my life. Seemed like everywhere I went was somehow magical. And it never rained even once; not a cloud in the sky ... so maybe it was magic.
When I read Tolkien and now read Rowling
I visualize the action as occurring in Oregon.
Fighten' words there...
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I have (several) LightSabers!
None here! Runs away.
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Third pix from the bottom?
Is that obsidian along the trail?
Asking because I've hiked up the Obsidian flow at Newberry and it looks like it. Obsidian does a number to your shoes... it cuts into em.
Beautiful photos. I love our Oregon.
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
I think you could be correct.
I am not a geologist (my wife better fits that designation) and have no opinion worth articulating, but I do know that geological processes are not as precise (homogeneous?, categorical?) as our language might suggest. The material does not have the "glassy" look I associate with the Obsidian samples I have known, but it is obviously hard and of the proper shape. And of course I refrained from acquiring samples. And sharp, ouch. I forgot my boots yesterday, and as a result walked the trail in my Birkenstocks. Hint: Don't hike into "back country" sites in Birkenstocks, you might as well go barefoot.
Our daughter has always lifted rock, geodes, agates, pebbles
and put them safely into our packs. So she's really evil. She takes the rocks and then doesn't carry them herself.
Hint: always carry your hiking shoes in the car or kayak/boat.
I've seen people on rough trails in flip flops. Eeek.
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
It's a beautiful state
Have spent a small chunk of time there long ago. Love blackberries and meadows in summer rain. Started college in Portland. Love the coast. Used to say if I had dogs I'd name them Clackamus and Moltnomah(never did end up having enough space for dogs). Stayed a night or two at Medford Mid-High when my high school class went to Ashland (and students from there stayed at my school when they came to the Bay Area). Have family in Eugene and nearly family friends in Joseph. I've always felt at home in OR.
Lovely pix!
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Turns out you're not
too far from our radio "Mothership" (or Headquarters), just down the road in Rogue River. We used to operate out of Medford.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
Love that part of the world. Deep canyons, high desert,
wild rivers. Near the outlet of the Rogue at the coast, Gold Beach I think, are some might fine places to roam around.
If you can get to these trails easily, so nice.
Thanks for the day trip.
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I thought all the blue lines indicated a test!
Lovely water and neat rocks. Roadcut geology is interesting,but hard to do at 67- 75mph. Up I-81 through NY is shale, leaking in summer, frozen water features below 32. Up by the St Lawrence, shale magically transforms into granite.
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Travel the Blue Highways
Hint: William Least Heat-Moon. I like to avoid the I-### routes when possible.
Yay! Someone who shares my obscure references!
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Back, around 20+ years ago;
One of my skydiving friends; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Brodsky-Chenfeld, of Arizona Airspeed; always revived the thought: "The Journey is the Destination", in conversation. We lost a lot of deep souls, that day. What an incredible visit you just gave me, PriceRip! I Have family in Oregon, and I could second-home, up there, if Aladdin pulled a fast one...
Lemon-y day here, clear air and golden sun.
I w/boyfriend used to haunt the road cuts of KY, very good trilobite and Devonian fossils sticking out. The stone quarry of shale here yields must smaller, less-interesting things. I have a few casts of shells here, where the rock peels at the cast, positive and negative. Always kept as an ooh-aah set.
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I keep trying to convince myself
that the beautiful green of Oregon's conifers would make me NOT miss the green of the mixed and deciduous forests of the East. Which I love.
One of the main reasons I stay East of the Mississippi is that the dominant colors here tend to be green, rather than gold, or brown. It gets green again once you get to the Pacific NW, which is why Oregon is possible for me.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Yep
It's green here alright. Green, green, green. Also hot and dry in the summer - and dangerous for wildfires. It is greener than northern California, where I stayed for too long. I may be inching my way up to BC...
Dangerous for Wildfires
In part the danger is because the Smoky-the-Bear "suppress all fires at all cost to keep the likes of Boise Cascade happy" campaign helped simplify (along with corporate farming of trees) the forest ecosystem. A complex variegated bio-system is more resilient than our present "forests". Remember the saying, "Don't confuse the Forest for the Trees."?
Sorry, sometimes I get a bit preachy.