HIKING WASHINGTON'S HISTORY by Judy Bentley
Hiking Washington's History reveals the stories embedded in Washington's landscape. This trail guide narrates forty historic trails, ranging from short day hikes to three- or four-day backpacking trips over mountain passes. Every region in the state is included, from the northwesternmost tip of the continental United States at Cape Flattery to the remote Blue Mountains in the southeast. Each chapter begins with a brief overview of the regions history followed by individual trail narratives and historical highlights. Quotes from diaries, journals, letters, and reports, as well as contemporary and historic photographs, describe sites and trails from Washington's past. Each trail description includes a map and provides directions, so hikers can follow the historic route. Judy Bentley tells readers how to get there, what to expect, and what to look for.
Despite Washington State's rapid growth, a remarkable number of historic trails have been preserved in national parks, restored by cities and towns, returned to public use by the railroads, or opened to hikers by Native American tribes. Some trails, such as the Iron Goat Trail, have been fully restored and interpreted. Others, such as the Naches Pass Trail, have been abused but survive. Some are easily accessible, such as the Duwamish River Trail in Seattle and the Spokane House trails near Spokane. Others, such as Chief Josephs Summer Trail, require a half-day journey just to reach the trailhead.
Hiking Washington's History is for hikers, amateur historians, newcomers unfamiliar with the state's history, and Northwest natives who know only part of that history. Savor the vicarious experience of a hike from a cozy chair on a rainy winter day, or put your boots on and hit the trail when the sun shines.
Judy Bentley, who teaches at South Seattle Community College, is an avid hiker and the author of fourteen books for young adults.
This book samples the landscape and history of the entire state, and is well organized, well researched, and well written. Its pages add a new dimension to hikes by linking our footfalls with those of the past. -Ruth Kirk
Judy Bentley has gathered a selection of favorite hikes from all over the state, then folded in just the right amount of historical context to make each of the treks pulsate through time. -Jack Nisbet, author of The Collector
4K Skyline-to-the-sea Backpacking, Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Backpacking the Santa Cruz mountains. My GPS put this trail at around 35 miles plus. We had a few detours because of closed trails, but this still ended up being many more miles than what I had read online. If you are looking for seclusion this is not the trail for you. You do spend a good portion of the first two days hiking next to country roads and traffic noise. When you get down into Big Basin you finally get away from that. But I would not call this backcountry or secluded. We did this in three days and two nights.
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July Evening Public Lecture 2015- The Giant Cascadia Earthquake of January 26, 1700
The speaker for this event is Justin Rubinstein, USGS Research Geophysicist; Moderator: Bill Ellsworth
Government Mineral Springs Guard Station Gifford Pinchot National Forest
The guard station is part of the Government Mineral Springs campground that includes the Iron Mike mineral well and public hand pump.
Near Carson, Washington, the Wind River, and within the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
Don't forget that you'll need a forest pass in the Gifford Pinchot National forest because the government needs your money more than you do....
P.S. if you leave the forest and you are in B.L.M. land, (Bureau of land management) you'll need a discover pass because the government needs your money more than you do......
P.S. If you park in the wrong place near the cabin you'll get a parking ticket. Didn't happen to me but others have found out the hard way.
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part 4 of Q's Awesome pictures in Oregon
South Sister.
141 Broken Top and Three Sisters Mountains.
142 South Sister with the side of Broken Top in the foreground.
143 Broken Top foreground, South and Middle Sisters background.
144 Broken Top foreground, Three Sisters Background.
145 South Sister with Green Lake bottom right.
147-148 Flying around Broken Top with Three Sisters in the background.
149 Glacier inside Broken Top’s crater.
150-151 Mt. Bachelor viewed from the north.
152 Steens Mountain approaching Kiger Gorge.
153 Kiger Gorge, glacial carved valley on Steens Mountain.
154 Flying near Beaver Marsh State Airport, Diamond Peak in the background.
155-160 Flying over Crooked River canyon, fog fills the canyon.
161-163 Interesting patterns on Alkali Lake.
164-168 Interesting patterns on a small dry lake bed northeast of the Alvord Desert.
169-170 Water from evening thunderstorms cover the “dry lake” at the Alvord Desert.
171 Railroad track crosses a lava flow just south of my house.
172 Camping/flying on Beasley dry lake near Fort Rock.
173 Corn maze near Smith Rock.
174 Rock pillar east of the Alvord Desert. Note the eagle’s nest on the top.
175 Hot creeks in Surprise Valley.
176 Hot spring pool near Borax Lake.
177 Borax Lake. Bath water warm lake just south of the Alvord Desert.
178 Thunderstorm water on the Alvord Desert.
179 Goose Lake near the town of Lakeview.
180-188 Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area near Lakeside Oregon.
Nooksack Falls - Mt. Baker Highway
Nooksack Falls is one of the many attractions along Mount Baker Highway #542 in Washington, USA. The waterfalls is not far from the Glacier Public Service Center. Read link below for hiking trail info and driving direction.
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Snow Canyon State Park is only 10 minutes drive from
Lava Falls At Entrada Vacation Rentals and is one of the most beautiful parks in Utah. The cloud formations and fog were beautiful after a night of rain in the area. Autumn is a beautiful and temperate time of year for hiking, and sight seeing in Southern Utah.
Hayden Geological Survey of 1871
The Hayden Geological Survey of 1871 explored the region of northwestern Wyoming that later became Yellowstone National Park in 1872. It was led by geologist Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden. The 1871 survey was not Hayden's first, but it was the first federally funded, geological survey to explore and further document features in the region soon to become Yellowstone National Park and played a prominent role in convincing the U.S. Congress to pass the legislation creating the park. In 1894, Nathaniel P. Langford, the first park superintendent and a member of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition which explored the park in 1870, wrote this about the Hayden expedition:
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Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. It was conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project. The test was conducted in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on what was then the USAAF Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, now part of White Sands Missile Range. The only structures originally in the vicinity were the McDonald Ranch House and its ancillary buildings, which scientists used as a laboratory for testing bomb components. A base camp was constructed, and there were 425 people present on the weekend of the test.
The code name Trinity was assigned by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, inspired by the poetry of John Donne. The test was of an implosion-design plutonium device, informally nicknamed The Gadget, of the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. The complexity of the design required a major effort from the Los Alamos Laboratory, and concerns about whether it would work led to a decision to conduct the first nuclear test. The test was planned and directed by Kenneth Bainbridge.
Fears of a fizzle led to the construction of a steel containment vessel called Jumbo that could contain the plutonium, allowing it to be recovered, but Jumbo was not used.
A rehearsal was held on May 7, 1945, in which 108 short tons (96 long tons; 98 t) of high explosive spiked with radioactive isotopes were detonated.
The Gadget's detonation released the explosive energy of about 22 kilotons of TNT (92 TJ). Observers included Vannevar Bush, James Chadwick, James Conant, Thomas Farrell, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, Leslie Groves, Robert Oppenheimer, Geoffrey Taylor, and Richard Tolman.
The test site was declared a National Historic Landmark district in 1965, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places the following year.
The Cruise of the Snark Audiobook by Jack London | Full Audiobook with subtitles
The Cruise of the Snark (1913) is a memoir of Jack and Charmian London's 1907-1909 voyage across the Pacific. His descriptions of surf-riding, which he dubbed a royal sport, helped introduce it to and popularize it with the mainland. London writes: Through the white crest of a breaker suddenly appears a dark figure, erect, a man-fish or a sea-god, on the very forward face of the crest where the top falls over and down, driving in toward shore, buried to his loins in smoking spray, caught up by the sea and flung landward, bodily, a quarter of a mile. It is a Kanaka on a surf-board. And I know that when I have finished these lines I shall be out in that riot of colour and pounding surf, trying to bit those breakers even as he, and failing as he never failed, but living life as the best of us may live it. Excerpted from Wikipedia.
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0:23 | 1 - Chapter I -- Foreword
22:46 | 2 - Chapter II -- The Inconceivable And Monstrous
54:18 | 3 - Chapter III -- Adventure
1:11:43 | 4 - Chapter IV -- Finding One's Way About
1:34:55 | 5 - Chapter V -- The First Landfall
1:50:08 | 6 - Chapter VI -- A Royal Sport
2:14:28 | 7 - Chapter VII -- The Lepers Of Molokai
2:45:10 | 8 - Chapter VIII -- The House Of The Sun
3:14:18 | 9 - Chapter IX -- A Pacific Traverse
3:50:08 | 10 - Chapter X -- Typee
4:21:00 | 11 - Chapter XI -- The Nature Man
4:48:48 | 12 - Chapter XII -- The High Seat of Abundance
5:27:12 | 13 - Chapter XIII -- The Stone-fishing of Bora Bora
5:42:33 | 14 - Chapter XIV -- The Amateur Navigator
6:22:33 | 15 - Chapter XV -- Cruising in the Solomons
7:01:18 | 16 - Chapter XVI -- Beche de Mer English
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NO PLACE LIKE HOME - A short film by Ian Gordon
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- Sydney
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Crowdy Bay National Park
- Nightcap National Park
- Brisbane
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- Kaikoura
- Arthur's Pass
- Westland Tai Poutini National Park
- Wanaka
- Lindis Pass
- Queenstown
- Glenorchy
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- San Francisco, CA
- U.S. Route 50 in Nevada
- Austin, NV
- Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park, NV
- Great Basin National Park, NV
- Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
- Escalante Petrified Forest State Park, UT
- Monument Valley, UT
- Mesa Verde National Park, CO
- Santa Fe, NM
- Guadalupe Mountains National Park, TX
- Austin, TX
- San Antonio, TX
- New Orleans, LA
- Jean Lafitte National Historical Park, LA
- Pensacola Beach, FL
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN
- Washington, D.C.
- Philadelphia, PA
- Lambertsville, NJ
- Blairstown, NJ (Friday the 13th)
- New York City
- Dorset Quarry, VT
- Emerald Lake State Park, VT
- Franconia Notch State Park, NH
- Crawford Notch State Park, NH
- Wilson Lake, ME
- Owls Head State Park, ME
- Acadia National Park, ME
- Stephen King's House, Bangor, ME
- Rural Maine
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- Lava fields near Grundarfjörður
- Grundarfjörður
- Geysir
- Þingvellir National Park
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- Winter Hill, Bolton
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Springfield, also known as Proud History, Bright Future, is a city in Lane County, Oregon, United States. Located in the Southern Willamette Valley, it is within the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area. Separated from Eugene to the west, mainly by Interstate 5, Springfield is the second-most populous city in the metropolitan area after Eugene. As of the 2010 census, the city has a total population of 59,403.
Springfield was settled when Elias and Mary Briggs and their family arrived in 1848. They were among the first party to travel to the region via the Southern Route by Klamath Lake, over the Cascades, into the Rogue Valley, then north to the Willamette Valley. Elias Briggs along with William Stevens ran a ferry on the nearby Willamette River. See full list of Video Credits HVAC is based on inventions and discoveries made by Nikolay Lvov, Michael Faraday, Willis Carrier, Edwin Ruud, Reuben Trane, James Joule, William Rankine, Sadi Carnot, and many others.
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The Great Gildersleeve: Bronco's Aunt Victoria / New Secretary / Gildy the Pianist
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.