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By: Portland Spoke – The Official Blog of Travel Portland » Blog Archive » Star Light, Star Bright: Time-Lapse Video of Oregon

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:42:48 +0000

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Finding Oregon « Steve Blizard's Blog — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:56:14 +0000

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By: reidh

reidh — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:31:28 +0000

Washington state isn’t too much different, as far as weather. one guess why their tallest peak is called “Rainier”, because when the explorers got back to civilization they asked that it be named so because they said “sure its cloudy and overcast alot here, but up there its much rainier.”

By: reidh

reidh — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:20:53 +0000

A clue as to why there are so few astronomers in Oregon. Weird and vaguely menacing crowds. But sirius-ly… The clouds come in and stay for sometimes 30 days at a time, while the sky spits in your face. Once in 2001 it stopped raining and the sun was out everyday for 2 weeks, in February! The “meterologists” declared a drought, and the News anchor was heard to say “..lets get back to those beautiful skies that we all love and miss so much.” Its the opposite Of S.A.D.. One gets so used to the cloud cover that you feel naked without it. From mid Oregon north to Seattle the rock music is all “grunge”, outdoors is a “plunge” , with a locker room’s “scunge”, makes you feel like a “spunge”. Way Up in OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ray gone. I call it the Grate North Waste, In the north there’s P-Land or Poor Land or Pot-Land, just across the ribber from little Van-Cower, the Meth Addict capital in Washington State. The gay and Lesbians there aren’t ‘activists’ they’re Militant. its nutz there, hence the many squirrels.

Now as I unnerstan squirrels are grey and live on nuts, but I ‘ve seen some with big pink butts, up in the trees way up in Oregon.

You could step outside to pee and never be seen again, way up in Oregon.

By: MKS

MKS — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:47:07 +0000

The Wet Coast is truly beautiful and the people from BC down through WA & OR are remarkably similar than they are different.

This video shows me the power that the ‘net is giving us — we can truly create things that give value to other people, as opposed to ‘just work for work’s sake’.

The global human spring continues.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:26:04 +0000

Grew Up in Bend. Average elevation 3600 feet. 270 Clear days per year on average. Not a lot of rain ever. If you visit Eastern Oregon, Pine Mountain Observatory is a must see. There are places in East of Bend where there are no lights at all and you can see the most amazing views of the Milky Way. I have often wondered why we get these great pictures from around the world, but none from closer to home.
The only place that really sees all of that rain that we are famous for is the 60 mile wide strip from the coast to the Cascades.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:24:57 +0000

“Oregon is famous for rainy weather, but that’s a tad unfair. Summers are clear, and if you head inland a ways the weather can be highly conducive for clear skies fairly often.”

@BA: Hush, you!

Don’t believe him. It rains here all the time!

15. Bobco85 Says: “The only thing missing from the video was a link to the Oregon tourism site or the Oregon equivalent of Arnold Schwarzenegger saying “Come to Calyforneeah!” Is there an Oregon equivalent of the Governator?”

That would be Governor Tom McCall, famous for saying something like, “Visit Oregon, spend your money, then go home!”

By: Rawley

Rawley — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:16:34 +0000

*looks down* Oh there it is.

*drinks some oregon beer*

By: Jeffersonian

Jeffersonian — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:58:25 +0000

@9
That’s Mt Thielsen, not 3-finger Jack.

By: Jerod W

Jerod W — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:34:52 +0000

Born and raised Oregonian and missing the hell out of it nowadays. Oregon is quite diverse and if you have the time you should try to see it all.