Looking up the Bike Trail

Newell Creek Canyon February 2022

The first "warm" day of February we hit the road to nearby Oregon City and the newest park in Oregon. A late afternoon arrival gave some cool sun-related pictures. Here's my favorites from the trip. We're hoping to go back at different season and re-take the photos to see how the natural area changes over the course of a year.

The park itself is basically over the edge of a hill near a power righ…  (read more)

12 Feb 2022

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Looking up the Bike Trail

The park has an unusual facet, bike-only trails. This one didn't get any use, but others did. Neat concept, even if I felt like I wanted to cheat and see what the bikers got to see and I didn't! (Note: I can't manage an off-road bike.) I loved how the late-afternoon sun was cutting through here.

12 Feb 2022

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Sunlight Moss

Really happy with how this came out. Hitting the trail in late afternoon meant the sun kept peeking out, and I thought how it hit this mossy dying tree looked cool. Not bad for taking this without looking directly at the lens (for obvious reasons!).

12 Feb 2022

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Fern Floor 1

A lot of the forest floor was covered in ferns, prompting many a bad pun from me as we walked alongside them on the trail.

12 Feb 2022

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Fern Floor 2

So many ferns!

12 Feb 2022

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Stagnant Water

About 2/3 of the way into the bottom of the canyon is a pond that only a frog could love. "What do think this holds?" Erica asked. "Mosquitos." "Let's move on, then."

12 Feb 2022

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Stagnant Water 2

More standing water. Even for natural water, it looked pretty bad. I wonder if any of the deer etc. that supposedly haunt the park (I didn't see any signs, honestly) ever try to drink it?

12 Feb 2022

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Natural Fortress

I imagine elves or orcs or something use this, somehow.

12 Feb 2022

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Decay in Real Time

A lot of the canyon is in transition like this tree stump that's starting the first stages of decay.

12 Feb 2022

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Long Shadows

The sun at our backs gave me a chance to take this, as the trail stretches on below us.
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