Category: Oregon

Solar Eclipse – Monday August 21, 2017

We went to the Solar Eclipse today at latitude 44°26.1009′ just north of Redmond, Oregon.  As many have said before a total solar eclipse can not be explained in words.
I wanted to show the difference between the way things looked before the eclipse and then during, however I was not prepared for the change in light levels.  I took this before picture with ISO 125 and shutter speed 200.  This is the back yard of the truly great people who offered up their beautiful home so we could see 1 minute 38 seconds of the total eclipse.
This is the same picture with the same camera settings during the total eclipse.

Here are the pictures I got of the sun during the total eclipse.

If you’d like the original picture you can click on these thumbnails.

This is what an eclipse can do to a rabbit, this one now has three ears.

Truly a great moment and impossible to explain.

Medford, OR – Monday February 20, 2017

Stopped early today the weather south of the Siskiyou’s is windy, restriction on high profile vehicles.  We will get up early and head south they are talking about snow at the pass after 10:00 am.

Today’s campsite; Southern Oregon County RV Park, site F5. 

7:30 pm update; News said the weather in Medford and Siskiyou is going to get cold and all this rain is turning to snow for the next two weeks.  Left Medford at 5:30 and got to the rest stop in Weed at 7:00.  The drive was fine, had some good head winds the last 10 miles.  Their is a flashing yellow sign at the rest stop saying that Hwy 97 from Weed north to Oregon is closed to RV’s and vehicle with trailers. We are on I5.  Weather dot com says the wind will drop down in the morning so I think we leave at first light.  It is much easier to drive in the wind when it is light out.

Eugene, OR – Monday February 22, 2016

We are starting our southern trip to Peoria, Arizona for Mariner’s Spring Training.
Here is our campsite picture for today. We are at a rest stop just north of Eugene Oregon.  It was almost 11:00 before we left home and got here at 5:30. 
Little rain in Washington and clear sunny skies all day in Oregon.  Not much else going on just driving in the sun.  Will continue south to Red Buff or so tomorrow. 

Goose Lake State Park, Lakeview, OR – Wednesday May 20, 2015

The weather is cool in the mid 60’s with a snow level about 1500 feet above where we are camped.

This is site 41.

Did an on line chat with DISH TV this afternoon and they changed our location so I can watch the season end of Survivor.  We can not get ABC, NBC or CBS because DISH and the three networks will not let us see the network stations over satellite unless you are at our home address (FCC makes the networks provide DISH with the feed).   One of the challenges is I have to have a specific address to get the feed and most state parks do not make there street address available.  I got on Zillow and found a house just down the road which is for sale and used their address.
We had some rain today and may have more tomorrow.
Interesting things about Goose Lake, 10 miles wide, 29 miles long, average depth 8 feet, deepest point 24 feet.

 

LaPine State Park, OR – Tuesday May 19. 2015

Tuesday we moved farther south, LaPine State Park just south of Bend.
Site 76

When I want to register I looked at the posted list of reserved sites. A Diana Sorens had reserved 14 sites for the night.   They started at site 77 which is just across the street from us.  There were two guys (in site 77) in a large hunter’s tent setting by an outside fire enjoying themselves.   What we found out was these two guys had come out the day before as the advance crew for three 5th grade classes from Amity public schools.  Two small school bus and one large bus drove up about 15 minutes after we had camp set up.  This was the first day of a 3 day outdoor camping adventure for these kids, all 75 of them.  Plus adults it reached 90 people.   Two of the teaches came over and filled us in on there trip.  They do this rather than going to paid camp like the 6th graders do from Enumclaw.

The other day I commented on the price for a campsite at Maryhill State Park $45.00 a night for water, sewer and electricity.   As a comparison our site at LaPine has water, sewer and electricity for $26.00 a night.  I will not comment on why difference in cost other than it is not the quality of site or location.