Posted in Conservation, Eastern Oregon, Steens on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The crew is haggard in the morning — temps dropped down to 36 overnight and nobody slept well, aside from Laura. In fact, the only restful sleep I managed was between 5:45am-7:30, when Laura wakes me up to tell me I am late for breakfast.
I slurp as much scalding coffee as I can, pack lunch [...]
Posted in Conservation, Eastern Oregon, Steens on August 29, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Last weekend, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (BHA) and Trout Unlimited Chapter 678 (Upper Willamette-McKenzie) tackled barbed wire removal in the Steens Mountain wilderness.
I updated the blog sporadically from my Eastern Oregon roadtrip, detailing the project. Check out all of the Steens Mountain Photos. Also, check out all five days of my stay at Steens Mountain.
Day [...]
Posted in Climate change, Conservation, Mad Max, books, eugene on August 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I just finished two books about deliberately supporting our local economic infrastructures to save the environment, foster community and happiness and to live healthier. The books: Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology and Deep Economy point out how hard it is for most of us to actually do this without a lot of consideration.
The [...]
Posted in Oregon, blogs, eugene on August 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Shameless plug: Vote for Upstream in Oregon in the Eugene Weekly’s “Best of Eugene” survey in the blog category. Click on the banner on the top of the page to vote. Why not?
Also, a brief preview: Friday I head out for a Northwest Odyssey. I’m backpacking in the Steens Mountain Wilderness with TU and Backcountry [...]
Posted in Events, eugene, photos on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We hit the Lane County Fair last night, checked out The Charlie Daniels Band, the goats and the funnel cake. Not a bad night. Also, I met the president of the Emerald Photographic Society in the photo competition at the fair. I’ll definitely be joining soon. I’ve never been in a camera club before – I’ll [...]
Posted in Oregon Cascades, Oregon Fishing on August 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Last weekend I went float tubing by myself on Gold Lake, chasing brook trout. I fish a lot by myself, and I’ve float tubed a fair bit, but haven’t done the two together — aside from a debacle in New Jersey a few years ago.
I have to say, float tubing by alone is boring as [...]
Posted in McKenzie River on August 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last night, Karl and I had plans to tackle steelhead waters on the lower McKenzie. The afternoon started normal enough, I met up with Karl in Springfield, got the gear together and shuttled to the Hayden Bridge ramp. When we got there, a couple of scuba divers were getting ready to swim out into the [...]
Posted in Oregon on August 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been on the road for the past two weeks – running family members back and forth across the Beaver State, from Bandon to Crater Lake — Florence to Sisters. I’ll be traveling to Steens and some Cascade high lakes over the next couple weeks.
All these sites are great, and I’ve done a lot of great [...]
Posted in books on August 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I just finished Rory Stewart’s second book, Prince of the Marshes. He might be one of the heroic figures of my generation. I don’t feel I could add any commentary to the two books he has written, I only reccomend that you read them. Stewart’s books will inspire you to take responsibility for the shaping [...]
Posted in Oregon Fishing, photos, willamette river on August 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tonight I went out with KP to a remote spot on the Willamette in order to shoot some photos and try to catch some trout that I’d heard were coming up from a certain reservoir and into the stream. I brought a handful of small fish (top photo) to the surface with a size 10 Madam X in the [...]
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