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Faos · May 10, 2007

Oregon state law requires you to become a Trail Blazers fan.

rimrocker · May 10, 2007

Faos said:

Oregon state law requires you to become a Trail Blazers fan.
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I will watch them with interest. That's about it. (The hardest sports related thing about moving there will be putting up with the intra-office battles between the Duck and the Beaver fans... and both schools have absolutely horrid colors.)

From Medford, Sacramento's only about 35 miles further than Portland... I wonder if I'll get Kings games.

For my birthday, I may ask Mrs. rimrocker if I can buy a Slingbox and have someone in the Houston area host it so I can watch local broadcasts of Rockets and Astros... oh, and the Texans when they play the Titans.

mc mark · May 10, 2007

rimrocker said:

OK, the day has arrived... I take off tomorrow morn for a new life in Oregon.

Here's another picture...

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Supremely jealous!

Congrats Rim! See you on the flip side!

bnb · May 10, 2007

Is that Mount St Helen's in the background?

Congrats Rim. Oregon's beautiful country. We'll be riding the coast again this summer.

Sishir Chang · May 10, 2007

rimrocker said:

Thanks Giff...

And for those interested, here's my new backyard...

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I'm glad I don't have to mow that.

swilkins · May 10, 2007

Those are beautiful pictures. I need to take a road trip and see some sights like that.

peleincubus · May 10, 2007

swilkins said:

Those are beautiful pictures. I need to take a road trip and see some sights like that.
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no doubt i have heard from people to check out that area at least once in my life.

stunning.

rimrocker · May 10, 2007

bnb said:

Is that Mount St Helen's in the background?
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Mount McLoughlin, 9,500 ft, thought extinct.

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Mt. McLoughlin rises 9,495 feet above sea level. Although its eastern base is in Klamath County and the Fremont-Winema National Forests, most of it (including the summit) are in Jackson County and the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. Mt. McLoughlin covers an area of over 20 square miles and it comprises an estimated volume of about 4 cubic miles. It is the highest peak in southern Oregon, and the highest point in the Cascade Range between the Three Sisters and Mt. Shasta.

Geology: Mt. McLoughlin is a relatively young, composite volcano that first began to build up less than a million years ago. Composed of alternating layers of pyroclastic rocks (cinders, scoria and volcanic ash) and andesite/basalt flows, the mountain's summit was once higher than it is now. Later eruptions (some as recent as 12,000 years ago) added more rock, but the erosive work of Ice Age glaciers removed massive amounts of the mountain's northeast slope. From the summit ridge, you can look down on the long, winding mounds, or "moraines", of loose rock left along the sides and lower end of these ancient glaciers. Gravity continues the slow, steady process of "wearing away" the mountain, as loose boulders regularly roll and bounce their way down the steep northeast slope.

Ecology: After leaving the parking lot, you pass through a forest composed largely of Shasta red fir and mountain hemlock, with scattered lodgepole pine and other trees; manzanita and other shrubs form the understory. As you climb above the forested slopes, you see only the hardy whitebark pine -- a stunted, subalpine species. Although deer, elk and bear occur on the mountain's lower slopes, most of the animals you're likely to see are smaller: Clark's nutcracker (a grey/black/white bird), golden-mantled ground squirrel (common at the summit), and if you're lucky, pine marten (a shy member of the weasel family).

History: Mt. McLoughlin was a major landmark to local Indians. To the Takelma people, the mountain was known as "Alwilamchaldis" (an important hero in their myths) and it was the home of Acorn Woman (who made the acorns grow each year). The Shasta Indians called it "Makayax", one of three mountains which poked above the surface of an ancient ocean. The Klamath called the mountain "Kesh yainatat", the abode of "dwarf old woman", who controlled the west wind. Arrowheads and other artifacts have been found on the mountain's lower slopes; Indians occasionally hunted deer and elk here while camped at lower elevations during the summer.

The place-name history of Mt. McLoughlin is complicated indeed. The first white man to see what we now know as Mt. McLoughlin was Hudson's Bay Company fur trapper Peter Skene Ogden in 1827; he named it "Mt. Sastise" for the Sastise (Shasta) Indians who had guided him north from the Klamath River into the Rogue Valley. Ogden's term, however, was soon changed in spelling and transferred to the huge, 14,000 foot volcano in northern California which now bears the name Mt. Shasta. Its former name (Pit Mountain, from its location near the Pit River) was applied to the Oregon peak. Still called "Mt. Pitt" by some local residents, Mt. McLoughlin was known to early settlers by a number of other names as well, among them: Mt. John Quincy Adams, Mt. Jackson, Mt. Clear View, and Snowy Butte. As if that weren't confusing enough, it had indeed also been named Mt. McLoughlin as early as the mid-1800s! Dr. John McLoughlin, known as the "Father of Oregon", was the head of the Hudson's Bay Co. in Oregon during the period of exploration and early settlement. Tall, and with a long mane of white hair, Dr. McLoughlin was a far-sighted Oregon pioneer. It is fitting that this mountain bears his name, a name that was officially confirmed by the state legislature in 1905.

It is unknown who made the first ascent of Mt. McLoughlin, but by the late 1800s the mountain was probably being climbed by residents and tourists on a fairly regular basis. The Forest Service erected a fire lookout on the summit in 1917. Strong winds threatened to blow the little building off the mountain each winter, so the Forest Service replaced it in 1929 with a new lookout built on a mortared-rock foundation. Often situated either above or in the clouds during fire season (making the job of spotting fires impossible), the Mt. McLoughlin Lookout was eventually abandoned and burned down.

http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/rogue-siskiyou/recreation/trails/mt-mcloughlin.shtml
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Adios.

Deckard · May 10, 2007

rimrocker said:

Mount McLoughlin, 9,500 ft, thought extinct.

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Adios.
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You mean that you don't want to discuss Sperm Donor to Lesbian Couple Ordered to Pay Child Support??

Good luck, and safe return.

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