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Ashland Creek in Lithia Park (Southern Oregon)
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Day 4 @ AIFF 2016
6-photo photomerge of AIFF 2016 activity on a beautiful Sunday morning in Ashland
Awards tonight, award-winning films shown tomorrow for the last time. If you are supposed to work tomorrow, it may be a good time to take a sick day.
Lithia Park’s Upper Duck Pond
Cherry blossoms in Ashland on the last day of March
McNeal in ruins
McNeal Hall after demolition nearly complete (4/3/16)
@SOUAshland
I took thousands of photos in what was this place. There were many good times within, but good riddance! The lighting was awful, and the place showed its age despite renovations in the past couple decades. I’m looking forward to the new venue in fall of 2017.
Muir Creek in winter
Muir Creek (near Muir Creek Falls) from the east
As I mentioned a couple days ago, my first goal on my snowshoeing adventure last week was to see Muir Creek Falls in winter. There isn’t a single photo of the place in winter on the internet. The normal trail to the falls is 3.9 miles each way. I wasn’t up for 8 miles in snowshoes, especially since I had a late start and wouldn’t be arriving until late afternoon. So, in looking at a map, I decided to try to get there from the Claude Lewis Trailhead / Sno-Park parking lot. The two places appeared to be only about 1,000 feet from each other on Google Maps.
The parking lot was easy to find and well plowed. I was the only person there. There were no trails or prints of any kind so I had to forge my own path, something snowshoes are pretty good for. The snow varied from a few feet to over 10-feet deep in places. The snow was very soft, and I sank 6-12 inches with every step, even with snowshoes. Although the going was mostly flat, after 1,000 feet or so I came to the scene shown in today’s photo. Muir Creek was right in front of me, but it was a hundred + feet down with no trails or feasible way to make the descent.
Snowy sunset
Sunset looking away from Crater Lake
Thursday I headed to Crater Lake, and surrounding areas, with two goals. I failed to reach either goal.
My first goal was to snowshoe to Muir Creek Falls from the Claude Lewis Trailhead parking lot. Didn’t quite happen. More on that later.
My second goal was to capture a sunset, for the first time, at Crater Lake. Today’s photo is as close as I got. Those clouds on the right covered the lake and turned into thick fog as well just minutes after I took this photo. I had high hopes too, as Crater Lake looked like this less than an hour before sundown.
Snow kissed panorama
7-photo photomerge panorama of Ashland, Oregon
Before heading down the hill to work last Monday morning I climbed out a window and up to the top of my roof to capture this image.
For the details, click on the image a time or two.
Emigrant Lake paragliding
Paragliding @ Emigrant Lake (Ashland, Oregon)
Ice Walker
Last week I posted a photo from the edge of Lake of the Woods. This was from a walk I took last weekend in snow shoes.
Today’s photo is from the middle of the lake after I ventured out past the shadows. In the shadows there was snow on the ice, and things felt more solid. I probably could have kept going straight across to my car near the lodge in the distance, but as the ice became more transparent I figured my adrenaline levels were high enough so I turned back at this point and walked around instead.
Southern Oregon University in November
SOU in autumn
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Those SOU landscaping people are so on top of the leaf “problem” on campus during the week that in order to get a photo like this, you need to wait until Sunday. Early on Monday works too.