SP 4449 - The Cascades Daylight 2017 in Central Oregon!
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The long awaited excursion of the Cascades Daylight took place on the 24th and 25th of June and I went to Central Oregon to catch it in multiple locations in the high desert! Enjoy!
SP 4449 4-8-4 GS-4 Northern Type Locomotive
Locations: Metolius, Peter Skene Ogden State Park, Bend, Redmond, Prineville Jct.
Little Deschutes trip April 2016
A 4-day, 47-mile solo adventure canoeing two of Central Oregon's beautiful rivers. Starting point: Dorrance Meadow Rd. on the Little Deschutes. Ending point: Benham Falls boat ramp on the Deschutes. Music: Float and The Barrier by Sunny Day Scenario.
White Water Rafting the Deschutes River, Oregon
One of the many destinations on the family road trip to Oregon-White Water Rafting on the Deschutes River filmed on my GoPro Hero 4 Black ft. Pink Piggy (Shawn)!
EQUIPMENT USED:
GoPro Hero 4
Towing Tugs Mary B and Willamette Champion on the Columbia
Flying about a couple of tugs moving barges on the Columbia River.
Rafting the Illinois River approx 2100 CFS
Running the Illinois River in South West Oregon at the end of January 2017.
deschutes kayak
kayak trip
Illinois River, Oregon - 2/22/08
Illinois river rafting in Oregon. A 3-day trip from Miami Bar to Oak Flat. A few Green Wall runs and other random rapids and scenery.
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Oregon Hole Gorge 5000cfs The Wet Boys
Oregon Hole Gorge at 5000cfs, on 2/13/2010
Deschutes Daylight Preview
Southern Pacific Daylight Number 4449 is one of the most beautiful and well known steam locomotives in America! Watching her traverse the Pacific Northwest with a colorful consist of vintage passenger cars is always a sight to behold.
7idea and Marcam Productions have teamed up to present a fascinating look at the SP 4449 traveling the BNSF mainline through the Columbia River Gorge and the Deschutes River Canyon. This action-packed program features highlights from steam excursions between Portland and Bend, Oregon from 2006, 2012 and 2017, plus trips to Wishram, Washington in 2011 celebrating 4449’s 70th year!
Like a “greatest hits” collection, this carefully crafted program offers fantastic coverage of the route using the best scenes from each excursion. Sit back and enjoy a 500 mile round trip through some of the most scenic country in the western United States!
This program was jointly produced by Marcam Productions and 7idea Productions. Cover photos by Camron Settlemier.
1 hour 22 minutes
WIDESCREEN DVD or 1080 Hi-Definition Blu-ray
May be viewed with or without narration.
McKenzie's First Time on the Deschutes River
McKenzie's First Time on the Deschutes River - He thought the water was VERY COLD! Not a great video because he kept coming towards me as I was taking the video.
MOUNT HOOD NATIONAL FOREST USA
Mount Hood and the Columbia Gorge symbolize the natural beauty of Oregon, yet much of these amazing landscapes remain unprotected. The mountain's high-elevation snowfields have received Wilderness designation, but the more biologically diverse lower flanks and surrounding ridges remain unprotected. Through cutting-edge technology and the efforts of more than 500 volunteers, Oregon Wild has identified unprotected natural areas in the Mount Hood National Forest over the past decade and sought federal Wilderness designation to preserve them.
In January 2009, Oregon Senators Ron Wyden (D) and Jeff Merkley (D) introduced legislation that would give Wilderness protection to 127,000 acres and designate 80 miles of rivers around Mount Hood and in the Columbia Gorge as Wild and Scenic Rivers.
The compromise plan includes the scenic canyons along White River, the biologically diverse forests of Fifteenmile Creek, the old-growth forest surrounding Roaring River and the beautiful whitewater of the East Fork of the Hood River.
The Lewis and Clark Mount Hood Wilderness is an important step toward preserving the scenic beauty, biodiversity, clean drinking water and unparalleled recreational opportunities for future generations of Oregonians.
HellfishTV - Central Oregon Summer 2010
Mt. Biking, Rafting, Tubing & Kayaking in 2010
9th Annual Float Down Rock River Oregon IL 2011 for Mider
SNAKES, LIZARDS, and MORE! | High Desert Herping
In today's video we explore areas around the Deschutes River. We find Thamophis, Uta, Sceloporus and more! Dang, that juvenile T. e. vagrans eyes were cool though!
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Song: Fredji - Happy Life (Vlog No Copyright Music)
Music provided by Vlog No Copyright Music.
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Oregon Rafting
Experience Oregon's best white water. This video features rivers such as the McKenzie, North Umpqua, Upper Klamath, Deschutes, and Grand Ronde. Video provided by Andy's Wild Water Adventures, LLC. Visit us at andyswildwater.com.
Cline falls Redmond Oregon
Cline falls Redmond Oregon
Deschutes & Columbia River Camping Trip 2011
2011 Camping Trip Deschutes & Columbia River Basin
Maupin slideshow
Photos from a day trip.
State Police Interrupt a Gold Mining Operation in Oregon!
Our mining claim neighbors called the Cops! People living on the other side of the river where our mining claim is and not liking our mining, called the cops. It appears our neighbors just did not want their liberal utopia disturbed so they call the cops to harass us. The police were very cool as I knew one of them from checking our permits on another river couple months earlier and an Oregon DEQ meeting he showed up at. The rude lady yells to at from other side of river you need a permit to do that...we had them of course. She also told cops we were disrespecful and rude to her...which was totally false. She made up her own narrative about what was happening to justify her being annoyed. Liberal tactic # 3, change the narrative or just plain lie!
This is the short version of the video, filmed on the Applegate River in Oregon while we were LEGALLY GOLD MINING!
In the video, it is a continuous video, shot on my GoPro camera that I was wearing on my head. The video shows me mining and moving around with no editing to show what actually goes on while mining. Then my buddy is helping me move rocks while I'm using a sub-surface dredge...then the cops show up , and I tell him is where the action starts.
UPDATE Jan 1st, 2015: In response to some of the comments saying we are uneducated, rednecks and other stuff...the guys in the video are as follows. One is a millionaire CPA, another a self employed business owner, two others are also self employed and owns a body shop and the other an internet marketer and freelance videographer, and lastly one is the son of the CPA guy and currently in college.
Oregon Mining Law:
Next time this happens, I will ask the State Police to cite the offending people who disrupt our mining operation based on this Oregon Mining Law:
ORS 517.133 Interfering with a mining operation. (1) As used in this section, lawful mining operation means any small scale mining operation that is in full compliance with state and federal laws.
(2) A person commits the crime of interfering with a mining operation if the person intentionally:
(a) Interferes with a lawful mining operation; or
(b) Stops, or causes to be stopped, a lawful mining operation.
(3) Interfering with a mining operation is a Class C misdemeanor. [1999 c.354 §6]
Here is the GoPro camera I was using:
Cabin along the Deschutes River at the Riverhouse Hotel
On the our hotel property in Bend, Oregon is a cabin that sits across from Crossings Restaurant and Pub. This old cabin used to be a mine shack for the Old Sterns Cattle Company used in the early 1900s along the Lazy River south of Sunriver, Oregon. In the 1970s a film crew used it for the movie Rooster Cogburn and were asked to place it on the Riverhouse property when they were done. Video of courtesy of Zolo Media