This is the old redwood slat save pipe for the hydroelectric dam at Toketee Falls. Really wild. Leaks sprung all over the place, plants growing out of it, old wood plugs peppering the whole thing.
And Toketee Falls itself
Stopped to have a snowball fight at the top of the Cascades
Some sort of weird dog at Crescent Moon Ranch outside of Bend
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument was beautful rugged quiet landscape. John Day himself? Not so much. There are loads of things and areas and rivers named after John Day in Oregon. He was probably some big shot founding father of the state, right? Wrong. He was a fur trapper who was kicked out of his party for being an ************, robbed by local Native Americans, and left naked in the woods. He made his way back to some little town and wouldn't stop bitching and complaining about the whole ordeal, so the river by which he was abandoned, mugged, and bare-assed became known as "over out by that river where that ************ John Day was robbed at". Eventually this was shortened to just John Day River. At least that's what the sign said.
Anyways, here's a picture of some old rocks
Mt Hood from somewhere to the south
And the giant Parkdale lava flow somewhere to the north. This thing was really wild because it is only about 7,000 years old. This big ol mole hill of lava was seeping and oozing it's way across the landscape when people where living out there. It's 300 feet tall! Imagine seeing that sucker glow at night.
And Toketee Falls itself
Stopped to have a snowball fight at the top of the Cascades
Some sort of weird dog at Crescent Moon Ranch outside of Bend
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument was beautful rugged quiet landscape. John Day himself? Not so much. There are loads of things and areas and rivers named after John Day in Oregon. He was probably some big shot founding father of the state, right? Wrong. He was a fur trapper who was kicked out of his party for being an ************, robbed by local Native Americans, and left naked in the woods. He made his way back to some little town and wouldn't stop bitching and complaining about the whole ordeal, so the river by which he was abandoned, mugged, and bare-assed became known as "over out by that river where that ************ John Day was robbed at". Eventually this was shortened to just John Day River. At least that's what the sign said.
Anyways, here's a picture of some old rocks
Mt Hood from somewhere to the south
And the giant Parkdale lava flow somewhere to the north. This thing was really wild because it is only about 7,000 years old. This big ol mole hill of lava was seeping and oozing it's way across the landscape when people where living out there. It's 300 feet tall! Imagine seeing that sucker glow at night.
