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Tom Dempsey's photo favorites from Oregon include: John Day Fossil Beds National Monument (Painted Hills and Blue Basin Overlook Trail), Cannon Beach, sunset at Haystack Rock, Ecola State Park, sea stack rocks at Oceanside, Cape Meares, Wizard Island in deep blue waters of Crater Lake National Park, Heceta Head Lighthouse, Sea nettle (Chrysaora species) at Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, fascinating abstract sand and algae patterns, Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Multnomah Falls, Latourell Falls, Triple Falls in Oneonta Gorge, Toketee Falls, North Umpqua River, Watson Creek (east of Roseburg).

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  • In 1906, the crew of the sailing ship Peter Iredale took refuge at Fort Stevens, after she ran aground on Clatsop Spit. The wreck is visible today, within Fort Stevens State Park, along the Oregon Coast, USA. Active from 1863–1947, Fort Stevens was an American military installation that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River in the state of Oregon. Built near the end of the American Civil War, it was named for a slain Civil War general and former Washington Territory governor, Isaac I. Stevens.
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  • Pacific sea nettles (Chrysaora fuscescens) undulate hypnotically in a blue tank at Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Secret Beach and waterfall, Samuel Boardman State Scenic Corridor, Oregon coast, USA. This panorama was stitched from multiple images.
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  • Wild male turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), Bullards Beach State Park, Bandon, Oregon, USA
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  • See Bird Rocks and other sea stacks from scenic Chapman Beach, which is just north of Ecola Creek, the biggest stream running through the town of Cannon Beach, on the Oregon coast, USA.
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  • Roosevelt elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti) graze in winter at Ecola State Park, on the Oregon coast, USA. Behind the elk, various sea stacks rise from the Pacific Ocean, including nearby Bird Rocks and Haystack Rock offshore from Cannon Beach.
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  • Natural Bridges Viewpoint, Samuel Boardman State Scenic Corridor, Oregon Coast Trail, USA
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  • A flock of seabirds flies behind a shipwreck skeleton. In 1906, the crew of the sailing ship Peter Iredale took refuge at Fort Stevens, after she ran aground on Clatsop Spit. The wreck is visible today, within Fort Stevens State Park, along the Oregon Coast, USA. Active from 1863–1947, Fort Stevens was an American military installation that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River in the state of Oregon. Built near the end of the American Civil War, it was named for a slain Civil War general and former Washington Territory governor, Isaac I. Stevens.
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  • Roosevelt elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti), Ecola State Park, Oregon coast, USA.
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  • Shipwreck skeleton. In 1906, the crew of the sailing ship Peter Iredale took refuge at Fort Stevens, after she ran aground on Clatsop Spit. The wreck is visible today, within Fort Stevens State Park, along the Oregon Coast, USA. Active from 1863–1947, Fort Stevens was an American military installation that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River in the state of Oregon. Built near the end of the American Civil War, it was named for a slain Civil War general and former Washington Territory governor, Isaac I. Stevens.
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  • Yellow seafoam pattern at Peter Iredale sailing ship wreck, Fort Stevens State Park, Oregon, USA.In 1906, the crew of the sailing ship Peter Iredale took refuge at Fort Stevens, after she ran aground on Clatsop Spit. Active from 1863–1947, Fort Stevens was an American military installation that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River in the state of Oregon. Built near the end of the American Civil War, it was named for a slain Civil War general and former Washington Territory governor, Isaac I. Stevens.
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  • Shipwreck skeleton. In 1906, the crew of the sailing ship Peter Iredale took refuge at Fort Stevens, after she ran aground on Clatsop Spit. The wreck is visible today, within Fort Stevens State Park, along the Oregon Coast, USA. Active from 1863–1947, Fort Stevens was an American military installation that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River in the state of Oregon. Built near the end of the American Civil War, it was named for a slain Civil War general and former Washington Territory governor, Isaac I. Stevens.
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  • Sunset behind sea stacks reflects in Hill Creek near Seal Rock State Recreation Site, on the Oregon coast, USA. We stayed at the adjacent Seal Rocks RV Cove.
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  • Colorful seaside rock patterns in Hill Creek near Seal Rock State Recreation Site, on the Oregon coast, USA. We stayed at the adjacent Seal Rocks RV Cove.
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  • Colorful seaside rock patterns near Seal Rock State Recreation Site, on the Oregon coast, USA. We stayed at the adjacent Seal Rocks RV Cove.
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  • Colorful seaside rock patterns near Seal Rock State Recreation Site, on the Oregon coast, USA. We stayed at the adjacent Seal Rocks RV Cove.
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  • Sea stacks and beach south of Seal Rock State Recreation Site, Oregon coast, USA. We overnighted at the adjacent Seal Rocks RV Cove.
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  • 1893 Heceta Head Lightstation, at Heceta Head Lighthouse State Scenic Viewpoint, on the Oregon coast, USA. Here, the Siuslaw Indians traditionally hunted sea lions and gathered sea bird eggs from offshore rocks. While seeking to extend Spanish hegemony in the late 1700s, Spanish explorer Bruno de Heceta mapped the mouth of the Columbia River and much more along the Pacific Northwest coast; and in 1862, the US Coast Survey named Heceta Head in his honor. Built atop a 56-foot tower in 1893, this Lightstation's coastal safety beacon was first illuminated in 1894. Perched 205 feet above the ocean, its fresnel lens focuses the brightest light on the Oregon coast, visible up to 21 miles out to sea. Heceta Head is found halfway between Yachats and Florence (2.1 miles south of Carl Washburne State Park). From the large parking lot, walk 1 mile round trip to the Lighthouse. (Heceta Head Lighthouse State Scenic Viewpoint was created in the 1990s by combining Heceta Head State Park with the former Devils Elbow State Park at the scenic cove at the mouth of Cape Creek.)
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  • See the beacon's bulb through a rotating Fresnel lens at Heceta Head Lighthouse State Scenic Viewpoint, on the Oregon coast, USA. While seeking to extend Spanish hegemony in the late 1700s, Spanish explorer Bruno de Heceta mapped the mouth of the Columbia River and much more along the Pacific Northwest coast; and in 1862, the US Coast Survey named Heceta Head in his honor. Built atop a 56-foot tower in 1893, this Lightstation's coastal safety beacon was first illuminated in 1894. Perched 205 feet above the ocean, its fresnel lens focuses the brightest light on the Oregon coast, visible up to 21 miles out to sea. Heceta Head is found halfway between Yachats and Florence (2.1 miles south of Carl Washburne State Park). From the large parking lot, walk 1 mile round trip to the Lighthouse.
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  • A Green Moray Eel (Gymnothorax funebris) emerges from a pipe at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, in Newport, Oregon, USA. While it may look neon green, the skin of the otherwise brown eel actually secretes a yellow-tinted layer of protective, toxic mucus. Moray eels are the only fish (and the only vertebrates) with mobile pharyngeal jaws, an extraordinary hunting innovation where outer jaws firmly grasp the prey, then separate inner jaws within the throat shoot forward to bite the target and pull it in!
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  • Giant Green Anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica). Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Seaweed reaches to the undersurface of brightly reflecting water rippling in a colorful sealife tank at Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Tufted Puffin. Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • A common murre, in a seabird pen at Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA. The Common Murre (Uria aalge) is a dapper, black-and-white seabird that nests in raucous throngs on crowded sea cliffs. Resembling "flying penguins," they have a tuxedoed look but are actually relatives of auks and puffins.
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  • Sunset at Beverly Beach State Park Campground, Newport, Oregon coast, USA.
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  • The Pacific Ocean enters a natural arch at Devils Punchbowl State Natural Area, Otter Rock, Oregon coast, USA.
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  • Beach view south from Devils Punchbowl State Natural Area, Otter Rock, Oregon coast, USA. Multiple overlapping photos were stitched to make this panorama.
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  • The Octopus Tree is a large Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis) branched like a candelabra, at Cape Meares State Scenic Viewpoint, Oceanside, Oregon coast, USA. Its base circumference is more than 46 feet. Native Americans, who have lived here for 3000 years, call this the Council Tree. Indian legend says this tree was used for supporting a canoe which held their dead, an ancient custom. Another theory is that coastal winds warped the tree.
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  • Tillamook Lighthouse clings to a sea stack amid crashing waves, seen from Chapman Beach. Cannon Beach city, Oregon coast, USA.
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  • See Bird Rocks and other sea stacks from scenic Chapman Beach, which is just north of Ecola Creek, the biggest stream running through the town of Cannon Beach, on the Oregon coast, USA.
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  • Kelp on Cannon Beach, Oregon coast, USA.
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  • Pounding surf eroded bluffs away, leaving Haystack Rock, a 235-foot high sea stack rising from the Pacific Ocean, at Cannon Beach, Tolovana Beach State Recreation Site, Oregon coast, USA.
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  • Battery Russell Lower Ammunition Bunker and Quarters at Fort Stevens State Park, Oregon Coast, USA. Active from 1863–1947, Fort Stevens was part of a three-fort American miltary system defending the mouth of the Columbia River. Built near the end of the American Civil War, it was named for a slain Civil War general and former Washington Territory governor, Isaac I. Stevens. In June 1942 during World War II, a Japanese submarine fired 17 rounds upon Fort Stevens (luckily causing causing no real damage), making it the only military base on the Continental United States to be fired upon by an enemy since the War of 1812.
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  • Shipwreck skeleton at sunset. In 1906, the crew of the sailing ship Peter Iredale took refuge at Fort Stevens, after she ran aground on Clatsop Spit. The wreck is visible today, within Fort Stevens State Park, along the Oregon Coast, USA. Active from 1863–1947, Fort Stevens was an American military installation that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River in the state of Oregon. Built near the end of the American Civil War, it was named for a slain Civil War general and former Washington Territory governor, Isaac I. Stevens.
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  • The pounding Pacific Ocean has eroded sea stack rocks from bluffs at Cannon Beach, Oregon, USA -- at dusk, the sky glows yellow orange. A time exposure blurs restless currents swirling at low tide.
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  • Sun starburst (at f/16 using Sony RX10 III camera) shines on lichen growing on twisted old tree wood at Glacier Pass. Backback to Mirror Lake in Eagle Cap Wilderness,  Wallowa–Whitman National Forest, Wallowa Mountains, Columbia Plateau, northeastern Oregon, USA. Hike 7.3 miles from Two Pan Trailhead (5600 ft) up East Lostine River to camp at popular Mirror Lake (7606 ft). Day hike to Glacier Lake via Glacier Pass (6 miles round trip, 1200 ft gain). Backpack out 8.7 miles via Carper Pass, Minam Lake and West Fork Lostine. From September 11-13, 2016 Carol and I walked 22 miles in 3 days.
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  • Painted Hills Unit, Overlook Trail, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon, USA. John Day Fossil Beds preserves layers of fossil plants and mammals that lived between the late Eocene, about 45 million years ago, and the late Miocene, about 5 million years ago.
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  • The rim of the ancient exploded Mount Mazama volcano reflects in the deep blue lake at Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, USA. Snow covers most of Wizard Island. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010. Panorama stitched from 3 images.
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  • The last wave of high tide left brown algae foam swirls resembling a Hokusai art work or fractal pattern on the beach sand at Seaside, on the Oregon coast, USA. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • The pounding Pacific Ocean has eroded a bluff to create Haystack Rock, a 235-foot (72-meter) tall monolith (or sea stack), on Cannon Beach, on the Oregon coast. Haystack Rock is part of the Tolovana Beach State Recreation Site and is managed by Oregon Parks and Recreation below the mean high water (MHW) level, and above the MHW level by the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Imnaha River Trail, Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, north of Imnaha village, Oregon, USA. The entire river is designated Wild and Scenic. This image was stitched from 3 overlapping photos.
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  • Painted Hills Unit, Overlook Trail, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon, USA. John Day Fossil Beds preserves layers of fossil plants and mammals that lived between the late Eocene, about 45 million years ago, and the late Miocene, about 5 million years ago. The panorama was stitched from 5 overlapping photos.
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  • The pounding Pacific Ocean has eroded these sea stack rocks from bluffs at Cannon Beach, Oregon. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Toketee Falls (85+28 feet high in two steps), North Umpqua River, Douglas County, Oregon, USA. Columnar basalt frames the graceful falls in Umpqua National Forest. The Toketee Falls trailhead can be found 1/2 mile north of Highway 138 near Toketee Lake, 16 miles west of Diamond Lake, or 58 miles east of Roseburg.
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  • Pacific sea nettle, or Ortiga de mar (Chrysaora fuscescens), Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA. Although commonly named "jellyfish," jellies are plankton, not fish. Jellies (class Scyphozoa) lack the backbone (vertebral column) found in fish. Jellies have roamed the seas for at least 500 million years, making them the oldest multi-organ animal. A sea nettle hunts by trailing long tentacles covered with stinging cells to paralyze tiny plankton and other prey. Stung prey is moved to the frilly mouth-arms and on to the jelly's mouth. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Shiny iridescent sea foam bubbles, Oceanside beach, Oregon, USA
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  • Glacier Lake in Eagle Cap Wilderness, Wallowa–Whitman National Forest, Wallowa Mountains, Columbia Plateau, northeastern Oregon, USA. Hike 7.3 miles from Two Pan Trailhead (5600 ft) up East Lostine River to camp at popular Mirror Lake (7606 ft). Day hike to Glacier Lake via Glacier Pass (6 miles round trip, 1200 ft gain). Backpack out 8.7 miles via Carper Pass, Minam Lake and West Fork Lostine. From September 11-13, 2016 Carol and I walked 22 miles in 3 days.
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  • Eagle Cap seen from Mirror Lake. Backback to Mirror Lake in Eagle Cap Wilderness,  Wallowa–Whitman National Forest, Wallowa Mountains, Columbia Plateau, northeastern Oregon, USA. Hike 7.3 miles from Two Pan Trailhead (5600 ft) up East Lostine River to camp at popular Mirror Lake (7606 ft). Day hike to Glacier Lake via Glacier Pass (6 miles round trip, 1200 ft gain). Backpack out 8.7 miles via Carper Pass, Minam Lake and West Fork Lostine. From September 11-13, 2016 Carol and I walked 22 miles in 3 days.
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  • Walk Riverview Trail in Loeb State Park along Chetco River to Redwood Nature Trail in Siskiyou National Forest, Curry County, Oregon, USA. This is the world's northernmost redwood grove. The coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens, in the cypress family Cupressaceae) is the tallest tree species on Earth, reaching up to 379 feet (115.5 m) high and up to 26 feet (7.9 m) diameter at breast height. This evergreen tree can live 1200 to 1800 years or more. Since the 1850s, more than 95% of the original old-growth redwood forest was cut down for lumber in its range along coastal northern California and southwestern Oregon.
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  • Two pretty waterfalls along the North Umpqua River, on the half-mile trail to Toketee Falls, Oregon, USA. Published by the Portland Monthly, September 2008 ("Weekend Getaways" article). Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Walk two routes 4 or 5 miles to Triple Falls (~130-foot plunge) in Oneonta Gorge, in Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Oregon, USA.
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  • The pounding Pacific Ocean has eroded these sea stack rocks from bluffs at Cannon Beach, Oregon, USA. The glowing ball of sun glows yellow orange.
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  • The pounding Pacific Ocean has eroded bluffs to create Haystack Rock, a 235-foot (72-meter) tall monolith and many other sea stacks, on Cannon Beach, on the Oregon coast, at Ecola State Park. Haystack Rock is part of the Tolovana Beach State Recreation Site and is managed by Oregon Parks and Recreation below the mean high water (MHW) level, and above the MHW level by the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
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  • Drive to Indian Sands along Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor on US Route 101 and walk the Oregon Coast Trail to see the Pacific Ocean crashing on cliffs, Curry County, Oregon, USA.
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  • A shoreline pattern of green grass, orange pine needles, white rocks, yellow submerged rocks and green water at Glacier Lake. Eagle Cap Wilderness, Wallowa–Whitman National Forest, Wallowa Mountains, Columbia Plateau, northeastern Oregon, USA.
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  • Tides have shaped sea sand into scalloped abstract patterns at Seaside, on the Oregon coast, USA
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  • Heceta Head Lighthouse at sunset in winter, at Heceta Head Lighthouse State Scenic Viewpoint, on the Oregon coast, USA. Here, the Siuslaw Indians traditionally hunted sea lions and gathered sea bird eggs from offshore rocks. While seeking to extend Spanish hegemony in the late 1700s, Spanish explorer Bruno de Heceta mapped the mouth of the Columbia River and much more along the Pacific Northwest coast; and in 1862, the US Coast Survey named Heceta Head in his honor. Built atop a 56-foot tower in 1893, this Lightstation's coastal safety beacon was first illuminated in 1894. Perched 205 feet above the ocean, its fresnel lens focuses the brightest light on the Oregon coast, visible up to 21 miles out to sea. Heceta Head is found halfway between Yachats and Florence (2.1 miles south of Carl Washburne State Park). From the large parking lot, walk 1 mile round trip to the Lighthouse. (Heceta Head Lighthouse State Scenic Viewpoint was created in the 1990s by combining Heceta Head State Park with the former Devils Elbow State Park at the scenic cove at the mouth of Cape Creek.) Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • At sunset, the moon rises over Eagle Cap and a camper's rock spiral art at Mirror Lake Campground. Backback to Mirror Lake in Eagle Cap Wilderness,  Wallowa–Whitman National Forest, Wallowa Mountains, Columbia Plateau, northeastern Oregon, USA. Hike 7.3 miles from Two Pan Trailhead (5600 ft) up East Lostine River to camp at popular Mirror Lake (7606 ft). Day hike to Glacier Lake via Glacier Pass (6 miles round trip, 1200 ft gain). Backpack out 8.7 miles via Carper Pass, Minam Lake and West Fork Lostine. From September 11-13, 2016 Carol and I walked 22 miles in 3 days. This image was stitched from 2 overlapping photos.
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  • Latourell Creek plunges 249 feet over Latourell Falls in a verdant mossy temperate rain forest in Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Oregon, USA.
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  • The sun sets over waves of the Pacific Ocean near winter solstice at Three Arch Rocks, Oceanside, Oregon, USA. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Multnomah Falls plunges 620 feet in two tiers in Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, adjacent to Interstate 84 and Historic Columbia River Highway, in Oregon, USA. A foot trail leads to Benson Footbridge, a 45-foot (14 m) long footbridge that allows visitors to cross 105 feet (32 m) above the lower cascade. Panorama stitched from 5 overlapping images.
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  • Watson Creek, Douglas County, Oregon, USA. To get there, turn onto Road 37, off Highway 138 near the east entrance to Toketee Ranger station (Umpqua National Forest), about 60 miles east of Roseburg.
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  • A broken, antique rusting car with flat tires rusts at James Cant Ranch Historic District, Sheep Rock Unit, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon, USA. The Cant Ranch interpretive site shows visitors an early 1900s livestock ranch. James Cant owned the ranch from 1910 to 1975, after which he sold to the National Park Service.
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  • Blue Basin Overlook Trail hiker, Sheep Rock Unit, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon, USA. John Day Fossil Beds preserves layers of fossil plants and mammals that lived between the late Eocene, about 45 million years ago, and the late Miocene, about 5 million years ago.
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  • Pacific sea nettle, or Ortiga de mar (Chrysaora fuscescens), Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA. Although commonly named "jellyfish," jellies are plankton, not fish. Jellies (class Scyphozoa) lack the backbone (vertebral column) found in fish. Jellies have roamed the seas for at least 500 million years, making them the oldest multi-organ animal. A sea nettle hunts by trailing long tentacles covered with stinging cells to paralyze tiny plankton and other prey. Stung prey is moved to the frilly mouth-arms and on to the jelly's mouth.
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  • Pacific Ocean waves have eroded seastack rocks from high bluffs and created a sandy beach, south of Cape Meares on the Oregon coast, USA. Clouds streak across the blue sky. Panorama stitched from 2 overlapping images.
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  • See colorful geologic rock patterns exposed by the Pacific Ocean at Harris Beach State Park, on US Highway 101, north of Brookings, Curry County, Oregon, USA.
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  • A rainwater pond reflects trees at Champoeg State Heritage Area, Oregon. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Red & white striped rock pattern, Blue Basin Overlook Trail, Sheep Rock Unit, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon, USA. John Day Fossil Beds preserves layers of fossil plants and mammals that lived between the late Eocene, about 45 million years ago, and the late Miocene, about 5 million years ago.
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  • Crater Lake National Park, Wizard Island, Oregon, USA. Panorama stitched from 5 overlapping images.
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  • The pounding Pacific Ocean has eroded a bluff to create Haystack Rock, a 235-foot (72-meter) tall monolith (or sea stack), on Cannon Beach, on the Oregon coast. Haystack Rock is part of the Tolovana Beach State Recreation Site and is managed by Oregon Parks and Recreation below the mean high water (MHW) level, and above the MHW level by the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Panorama stitched from 2 overlapping images.
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  • The pounding Pacific Ocean has eroded a bluff to create Haystack Rock, a 235-foot (72-meter) tall monolith (or sea stack), on Cannon Beach, on the Oregon coast. Haystack Rock is part of the Tolovana Beach State Recreation Site and is managed by Oregon Parks and Recreation below the mean high water (MHW) level, and above the MHW level by the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
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  • Pacific Ocean waves have eroded seastack rocks from high bluffs and created a rocky beach, south of Cape Meares on the Oregon coast, USA. Puffy clouds roll across the blue sky. Panorama stitched from 2 overlapping images.
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  • The pounding Pacific Ocean has eroded bluffs to create Haystack Rock, a 235-foot (72-meter) tall monolith and many other sea stacks, on Cannon Beach, on the Oregon coast, at Ecola State Park. Haystack Rock is part of the Tolovana Beach State Recreation Site and is managed by Oregon Parks and Recreation below the mean high water (MHW) level, and above the MHW level by the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
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  • The pounding Pacific Ocean has eroded a bluff to create Haystack Rock, a 235-foot (72-meter) tall monolith (or sea stack), on Cannon Beach, on the Oregon coast. Haystack Rock is part of the Tolovana Beach State Recreation Site and is managed by Oregon Parks and Recreation below the mean high water (MHW) level, and above the MHW level by the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
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  • The pounding Pacific Ocean has eroded bluffs to create Haystack Rock, a 235-foot (72-meter) tall monolith and many other sea stacks, on Cannon Beach, on the Oregon coast, at Ecola State Park. Haystack Rock is part of the Tolovana Beach State Recreation Site and is managed by Oregon Parks and Recreation below the mean high water (MHW) level, and above the MHW level by the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
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  • Multnomah Falls upper tier plunges 542 feet in Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, on Historic Columbia River Highway and Interstate 84, Oregon, USA. Panorama stitched from 5 images.
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  • Walk Riverview Trail in Loeb State Park along Chetco River to Redwood Nature Trail in Siskiyou National Forest, Curry County, Oregon, USA. This is the world's northernmost redwood grove. The coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens, in the cypress family Cupressaceae) is the tallest tree species on Earth, reaching up to 379 feet (115.5 m) high and up to 26 feet (7.9 m) diameter at breast height. This evergreen tree can live 1200 to 1800 years or more. Since the 1850s, more than 95% of the original old-growth redwood forest was cut down for lumber in its range along coastal northern California and southwestern Oregon. Panorama stitched from 7 overlapping photos.
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  • The Pacific Ocean carves sea stacks from coastal cliffs at Harris Beach State Park, on US Highway 101, north of Brookings, Curry County, Oregon, USA.
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  • The pounding Pacific Ocean has eroded these sea stack rocks from bluffs at Cannon Beach, Oregon, USA. The glowing ball of sun glows yellow orange.
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  • Tides have shaped sea sand into scalloped abstract patterns at Seaside, on the Oregon coast, USA
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  • The pounding Pacific Ocean has eroded these sea stack rocks from bluffs at Cannon Beach, Oregon
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  • See colorful geologic rock patterns exposed by the Pacific Ocean at Harris Beach State Park, on US Highway 101, north of Brookings, Curry County, Oregon, USA.
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  • Latourell Falls (249 foot plunge), Latourell Creek, Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Oregon, USA. Stitched from 2 images.
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  • Latourell Falls plunges 249 feet. Latourell Creek, Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Oregon, USA.
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  • Pacific Ocean waves have eroded seastack rocks from high bluffs south of Cape Meares on the Oregon coast, USA. Clouds streak across the blue sky.
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  • Sea stack rocks in the Pacific Ocean seen from a shallow sea cave, on the north side of the hiker's tunnel at Oceanside beach, Oregon, USA. Panorama stitched from 2 images.
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  • Pacific Ocean waves have eroded seastack rocks from high bluffs and tides have cast driftwood logs onto a rocky beach located south of Cape Meares on the Oregon coast, USA.
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  • The pounding Pacific Ocean has eroded sea stack rocks from bluffs at Cannon Beach, Oregon, USA. At dusk the sky glows yellow orange. A time exposure blurs the swirling tide.
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  • The Pacific Ocean carves sea stacks from coastal cliffs at Harris Beach State Park, on US Highway 101, north of Brookings, Curry County, Oregon, USA. Canada geese walk the beach. Panorama stitched from 2 overlapping photos.
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  • Bicycle in view of Wizard Island, which rises in the deep blue lake at Crater Lake National Park, in Oregon, USA. To allow snow plowing in early June, Rim Drive is closed to cars but open to bicycles, making an excellent time for a bike ride free of automobiles. Published in August 2015 issues of Alaska Airlines & Horizon Edition inflight magazines. Published on BikeGrandCanyon.com and on a poster for their affiliated BikeYourPark.org.
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  • Painted Hills Unit, Overlook Trail, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon, USA. John Day Fossil Beds preserves layers of fossil plants and mammals that lived between the late Eocene, about 45 million years ago, and the late Miocene, about 5 million years ago.
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  • Painted Hills Unit, Overlook Trail, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon, USA. John Day Fossil Beds preserves layers of fossil plants and mammals that lived between the late Eocene, about 45 million years ago, and the late Miocene, about 5 million years ago. The panorama was stitched from 5 overlapping photos.
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  • Red Scar Knoll Trail, Painted Hills Unit, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon, USA. John Day Fossil Beds preserves layers of fossil plants and mammals that lived between the late Eocene, about 45 million years ago, and the late Miocene, about 5 million years ago.
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  • A broken, antique rusting car with flat tires rusts at James Cant Ranch Historic District, Sheep Rock Unit, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon, USA. The Cant Ranch interpretive site shows visitors an early 1900s livestock ranch. James Cant owned the ranch from 1910 to 1975, after which he sold to the National Park Service.
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  • Painted Hills Unit, Overlook Trail, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon, USA. John Day Fossil Beds preserves layers of fossil plants and mammals that lived between the late Eocene, about 45 million years ago, and the late Miocene, about 5 million years ago. The panorama was stitched from 5 overlapping photos.
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  • Tragopogon dubius flower blooms on Wenaha River Trail, Blue Mountains, Umatilla National Forest, Oregon, USA. Tragopogon dubius (commonly known as Yellow Salsify, Western Salsify, Goatsbeard, or Wild Oysterplant) is native to southern and central Europe and western Asia. The seed head resembles that of a large dandelion. After introduction into North America, it spread widely (invasively) across the continental United States and most provinces of Canada. The flowers open early in the morning and often close up by late afternoon. Western Salsify (T. dubius) looks very similar to the commoner Meadow Salsify (T. pratensis) except the green bracts behind the yellow flower are longer and more noticeable. Although not closely related to Meadow Salsify or Common Salsify or Oyster Plant (T. porrifolius), the Western Salsify readily hybridizes with both, and in North America its hybrids have created the new alloploid hybrid species T. mirus and T. miscellus.
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  • Wenaha River Trail, Blue Mountains, Umatilla National Forest, Oregon, USA.
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  • Haas Ridge rises above the Imnaha River along Dug Bar Road, in Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, north of Imnaha, Oregon, USA. On May 20, 2014, the hills were green with spring grass. The entire river is designated Wild and Scenic. This panorama was stitched from 4 overlapping images.
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  • After 5 miles, the Imnaha River Trail ends at the confluence with the Snake River in Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, north of Imnaha village, Oregon, USA. The entire river is designated Wild and Scenic. This panorama was stitched from 12 overlapping photos.
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