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Enjoy! Hope to see some pics.
Just got back from a trip to the State of Jefferson where I rafted the Rogue, hiked Crater Lake, and fished right under Mt. Shasta. If I could find work in Jefferson, I’d move tomorrow.
Second Frank when he asks for some pictures.
Hope you have a good time away from being The Antiplanner.
Just got back from a trip to the State of Jefferson where I rafted the Rogue, hiked Crater Lake, and fished right under Mt. Shasta. If I could find work in Jefferson, I’d move tomorrow.
Does Oregon still have a law that criminalizes pumping your own gas? I haven’t been back there in a while, but that always struck me as a strange way to retain jobs.
“Does Oregon still have a law that criminalizes pumping your own gas?”
Yes, and it’s very annoying. It slows down the fueling process and undoubtedly increases the price of gas. I’ve had to deal with it since I started driving in the ’80s. When I have had foreign plates, I feign ignorance and start fueling myself. Or I get out and put in my payment card, which usually quickly attracts someone to make sure I don’t dare touch the pump. It’s a stupid law and another reason for the Oregon counties in Jefferson to make the split.
Just got back from a trip to the State of Jefferson where I rafted the Rogue, hiked Crater Lake, and fished right under Mt. Shasta. If I could find work in Jefferson, I’d move tomorrow.
Nice, turns out we were both down in that area. I just returned from that general region as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Shasta_Wilderness
Frank, Iced,
wasn’t it super hot down there? For being at a fairly high elevation, the area around Shasta, and especially as you get to Redding, gets to be a real scorcher in the summer.
We all have our own pump jockey horror stories. I was going to school in Salem this one year, and I was waiting impatiently as the single pumping guy handled five or six cars at a Chevron. Had been there over five minutes (seething), when I finally just got out and started pumping my own gas. All of a sudden, the pump tard suddenly placed this customer (me) on his priority list, ran over full bore to my car, *yanked* the hose straight out of the car, spilling gas all over the place, placed the hose in its cradle, and yelling at me that the Law is the Law (basically), and if I didn’t like it, I should contact my representative.
Typical Oregon libtard-ness & statism that has turned that state into what it is.
Iced, sounds awesome. I climbed Shasta in ’99. Got to the top of Misery Hill about 600 feet below the summit and got altitude sickness. Certainly my favorite mountain and far less overrun with tourists than Rainier. I was car camping/fishing/boating this trip due north of Shasta not far from Hwy 97 on the Klamath NF. Sure you had a far more wild experience than mine, but that entire area is so empty and quiet.
metro, when I was in the Rogue Valley, it was only 90, although the day I left for Crater, temps in the Medford area were to hit 100, but the high at Crater was only 70 and the low was actually in the upper 30s! The Klamath Basin was only in the mid-80s and it was actually hotter that day in Seattle than there.
For anyone looking to get away from it all, I highly recommend the upper Klamath Basin near the Williamson River, Crooked Creek, or Fort Klamath. There are some great places on AirBnB and some spectacular dispersed camping spots, one of which is located where a river comes right out of the side of a mountain. Avoid Mazama campground at Crater Lake at all costs.
metrosucks wrote:
We all have our own pump jockey horror stories.
Ever filled-up in New Jersey? Yes, the law mandates full service vehicle fueling in the Garden State.
Full-service fuel at the Sunoco stations on the N.J. Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway service plazas (the Parkway is run by the N.J. Turnpike Authority these days) is pretty courteous (I strongly suspect that the Turnpike Authority has secret shoppers that check-up on the gas jockeys), with no horror stories (never gotten full-service Diesel fuel anywhere else), but off-Turnpike in Jersey (where I have purchased gasoline a few times), not always as nice.
Frank wrote:
Got to the top of Misery Hill about 600 feet below the summit and got altitude sickness.
Ah, you Westerners with those tall mountains.
However, your remark about altitude sickness reminded me of ascending a mountain here in little Maryland, where our state high point is at the crest of the Eastern Continental Divide (westward streams flow to the Mississippi River, eastward streams flow to the Chesapeake Bay) in far western Garrett County. The mountain is called Backbone Mountain, and the high point is called Hoye Crest, at a mere 3360 feet AMSL.
I recently walked the mile or two on a pretty steep logging trail in the Monongahela National Forest from the nearest highway access (across the state line in West Virginia), ascending between 600 and 700 feet in the process, so we started at about 2600 feet. Living as I do near sea level and not acclimated to the (relatively) higher elevation, I really felt the lower oxygen content in the atmosphere even at that (low by Western standards) elevation, but I did make it to the high point in spite of that.
Thanks for sharing CP. Glad you made it to the top. Enjoyed your story.
Yep. West Coast is high. Shasta is 14162 and I was struggling above 13000. Heck, I live 100 feet above sea level, and when I went up a flight of steps at the Crater Lake admin building at 6500 feet, I had to take a break.
Fun thread. Would be cool to either spin off an outdoors blog or to have more posts related to the outdoors and public lands.
Frank wrote:
Would be cool to either spin off an outdoors blog or to have more posts related to the outdoors and public lands.
Funny thing about the Maryland high point. It is on private land (owned by an investment company called Western Pocahontas Properties Limited Partnership located in West Virginia that appears to specialize in purchasing lands with coal under them), but getting there, the trail to the high point is through the national forest on the West Virginia side of the state line.
Unlike West Virginia, Maryland is not especially well-known as a coal mining state, but there was once a significant amount of coal under the mountains of the western part of the state, but it is my understanding that most or all of the coal that can be economically recovered has been, including the seams under the Maryland high point (there was a large mine in the Backbone Mountain that ceased operation in the years immediately following World War II and almost immediately became filled with ground water after the mine was abandoned).
We have no national forest land in Maryland (though the U.S. Department of Agriculture owns an enormous parcel of land (by metropolitan standards) in the Washington, D.C. suburbs where the USDA’s Beltsville Agricultural Research Center is located). I would not mind it at all if the Forest Service were to find a way to purchase the high point and the land close by from Western Pocahontas.