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EP11: 12/7 "You Look Like Peter Pan"
Kiwi Jay:
I know! :hearts: Chateau you rock! Peach you rock! but you most of all. I am hoping for more previews to come up so we can look for some more places!
Kiwi Jay:
anyone know where this is?
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DrRox:
Well, I hate to put a kink in everyone's joy, but I do not believe that the Cluebox task is on Thunder Island. If you will look at Kiwi's beautiful pic of Thunder Island, you will notice that Thunder Island is surrounded by lake water.....calm still lake water.
Now if you will look at the following 3 photos, you will see in the background on the left, through the trees, what I believe is white water. This is indicative of rapids. Also the foliage is much less manicured than Thunder Island.
This photo really shows the boulders in the stream creating the rapids. It seems to me that the stream is flowing toward the camera. It is a little hard to tell in N/S photos. They are pretty flat, a but different camera angle in the K/T photo shows the direction of flow. It could possibly be an island in a smaller stream. The water behind Ken seems to maybe be diverting to the right. But it is much smaller stream than either the Colombia River or Lake Bonneville.
So my conclusion is, that it is either a steam flowing downstream either west or north. Mt Hood is just to the south and east of Cascade Locks, so all water flows west and north in this area. Maybe some of the Portland people can lock down just where this might be. I am assuming this is southeast of Portland. If it is southwest of Portland, ie, in the Newberg area, then the directions of the water would be reversed. The water would be flowing either east or north toward Portland.
It could be on private property, but I would guess one of those smaller parks with a stream running through it.
I first thought this was the brainteaser just before the Finish Line, but now I believe it is just a find a clue task. All those clueboxes and just three of them have a clue in it.
apskip:
There is the Willamette River quite near to Newberg, but I personally do not believe there was time to go to Cascade Locks and anywhere near Newberg.
However, Dr. Rox, I do not find your analysis totally convincing. It was a calm day when the reference picture of the Columbia River and Thunder Island was taken, so the camera would not reveal anything turbulent. If weather conditions were such that it was high winds, which I know to occasionally happen in northern Oregon, then turbulent water conditions would happen. Wind speed varies widely in the Portland area. I have tried to get something to approximate the conditions on the water when the prevailing wind direction was from the southwest. I chose Mt. Scott, which has probably the second highest average winds in the Portland metro area. Here is the wind table from the Weather Underground for May 14, 2008:
Wind Speed: Max. 15.0mph / 24.1km/h SW Average 4.9mph / 7.8km/h NW
Wind Gust: Max. 15.0mph / 24.1km/h
Those winds could have created major tubulence for the small stretch of river between Thunder Island and the mainland.
apskip:
I have been researching other tree climbing companies besides those I mentioned in a prior post #1121 at 10:20pm last night. Here they are:
Tree Climbing Northwest
Driving from the airport to the climbing site is about 23 miles and takes about 35 minutes.
20451 S Central Point Road
Oregon City, OR 97045
This one is close to Portland and a top choice for where the tree climbing took place along with the next 3 below:
Portland Parks and Recreation (Permitted by the USFS for guiding on Mt. Hood)
503-823-5132
Timberline Mountain Guides (Permitted by the USFS for guiding on Mt. Hood)
541-312-9242
NW School of Survival (Permitted by the USFS for guiding on Mt. Hood)
503-668-8264
Mt. Hood's lower slopes would be fine for AR13's purpose and are geographically close to Portland.
Oregon Peak Adventures (Mt. Adams and St. Helens climbs, rock/snow climbing instruction, adventure travel and more)
503-297-5100
First Ascent Climbing Services (rock climbing instruction, Smith Rock and Joshua Tree)
800-325-5462
However, the last two above are out because Mt. Adams is over an hour away in Washington State, Mt. Saint Helens is also an hour away, Smith Rock is in the middle of Oregon hours away, and Joshua Tree is a national park in California.
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