This is Portland, we do what we like. This is Portland, we do what we like.

Try browsing around in the Field Guide section of OregonHikers.org for a hike that appeals to you. btw, at this time of year the gorge is pretty crowded and by going a bit further afield you can hike at higher elevations that are too snowed under to hike most of the year. Mt St Helens has some very scenic hikes.

Yeah, I actually had that tab open and saw the Tunnel Falls hike which also looked nice.

We are short on time so were just looking for a quick escape from the city center, will probably end up in the Gorge. We don't mind getting an early start to battle the crowds and get back in time for our obligations. Thanks aimless!

Pretty good hiking to be had in town if y'all are really pressed for time, I dunno how far you've ventured into Forest Park but you may be surprised how beautiful and quiet it is only a couple miles down the Leif Erikson trail, and of course that runs for 10+ miles, with miles more of smaller trails spider-webbing off and around it.

And all without having to leave the city at all! Forest Park is the best thing Portland has going imo.

If you do go to the gorge I really like Elowah Falls, easy hike, beautiful falls you can get plenty close to, and there are other falls nearby you can chain together for a longer/harder hike, you can even climb to the top of Munra Point if you're in the mood for punishment. View from the peak is well worth it though!

Thank you too, sheesh. I've noted both.

De nada, let us all know what y'all ended up walking, always interested to hear about a local hike, Lord knows there are too many trails for anyone in particular to be familiar with.

Plenty of places in the world, in the country even, where there ain't any good hiking unless you're ready for a proper roadtrip, I feel this is an overlooked perk of Portland even now, when hiking seems as popular as ever. Good for us though, huh?

Timely right about now with this Pokemon Go blowing up all of a sudden..

Seems like the two major draws (beyond pocket monsters) are the social aspect, and that it makes you get up and walk around. And I feel like, well hell, if you like walking around...have you been to the Gorge?

From what I've gathered there probably aren't many Pokemon in the Gorge, but there may be an opportunity here...where's that thread where we give away good ideas...

Trip report: Woke up early (5:30am) on Saturday and hit the trails around Bridal Veil, Wahkeena, Multnomah & Horsetail Falls and back to NE Alberta for Pine State Biscuits before the line was nuts.

Sunday we woke up early for a shorter excursion and headed due east to Hillside and improvised on the network of trails heading south, connecting to the arboretum, Japanese garden & the zoo. We still had some energy so we connected to the "Four T" trail which was a mix of urban and offroad trails but once we got to OHSU we realized we wouldn't be able to take the tram down til 1pm so we just hopped on a bus down the hill back downtown.

Thanks again for the tips, if we ever get a chance to add in a few more days we will try to get out to the surrounding mountains.

when I lived in Oregon this dude's books were vital: https://www.amazon.com/William-L.-Sullivan/e/B001KCBW7M/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1470677588&sr=8-2
Only worth it if you own or can access a car though (and you might find yourself wanting 4WD at that).

I never actually owned the NW one (lived in Eugene), but I'm sure it's good. Always nice to take a phone photo of his map before setting out

xp: "headed due east" should read "headed due west"... whoops! :-)

Love the arboretum, such a good idea. Does every city have a living tree museum? I suspect not, but they really ought to. Had never heard of the "4T" trail, sounds like a good excuse to finally try out that tram thing. Are the off-road portions nice?

Can vouch for the Sullivan books, I only have the NW one but it is an excellent resource, probably the best I've found in old timey paper form anyway

this is getting ridiculous

Yeah. We get a cold, snowy, icy winter around here from time to time. It's rare, but I've seen worse. Much worse. That said, I'll be damned glad when all the snow and ice are a dim memory. At least none of our trees has fallen over and we've had electricity every day.

it's usually ~ once every three years. this is our fourth or fifth episode in the past six weeks. and it prob won't be v clear until late in the weekend. not v good stuff imo.

Your flu can't be making this any easier. Get well soon.

Snow days aren't nearly as much fun when one is out of PTO

boy 100 miles makes a big difference right now, streets are almost clear in Eugene but we are slated for more snow tonight in the 1-2" range

last weekend was rough, finally got out of the house to buy food on Sunday and it was still pretty sketchy

Every time I've visited Portland in the winter it's been rainy and grey but not cold; last week felt really strange by comparison because it never rained once and was shockingly cold and windy. Plus I saw Hood and St. Helens a couple of times which felt really strange in January.

just had to dig my car out enough to back it away from a tree who's neighbor in the plot completely uprooted. Missed me but took out a jeep.

@pdxalerts
Vancouver--police to area of 70th/Ward Rd-report of reckless traffic--vehicle pulling a guy on skis down the road--skier also holding a beer

We got roughly 8 inches here last night. Woke up this a.m. with electricity intact (hurray!), but our internet (via cable) was out until 20 minutes ago. I shoveled a couple of tons of wet snow for 3 hours this afternoon, but the temp was (a bit) above freezing and no wind, so not too bad.

sorry i'm missing this tbh

stay safe everybody

Already got a FlashAlert that my office is closed tomorrow.

not abating

https://apnews.com/96be8a461ab0f3886fc1723607c926e7

Two nights later, a potluck at a park in the heart of the Black community morphed into another violent clash with police, who unleashed tear gas to quell the crowd of several hundred people.

“Violent clash,” huh. Cop riots ain’t going away anytime soon

didn't even know there was a portland thread here

i haven't kept up on local news, but this seems to be about in line with what little i've already learned about portland's racial history

getting portland cops involved, of course, does nothing whatsoever to help

?

welp

this whole situation seems extremely not good and kind of fascist

i love our governor, but yesterday she dismissed what's going on here as a "campaign stunt". i don't like that. i don't think "campaign stunt" is an appropriate descriptor for kidnapping civilians off the streets into unmarked vehicles.

so fucked up, ofc Ted Wheeler's voicemail box is full, grrrrr

As unmarked feds snatch protesters off the streets in Portland, memo leaked to me shows they'll be deployed indefinitely and in undisclosed locations, with drones "on standby to assist as needed":https://t.co/dIrNSlbM6B pic.twitter.com/LR4COtuvGs

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) July 17, 2020

The militarization of policing continues apace, along with the use of 'School of the Americas' counter-insurgency techniques to quash public demands for the redress of grievances. iow, another giant step toward turning the USA into Guatemala or El Salvador.

So "Naked Athena"...

word is that the person was NBPOC, it says a lot about how whiteness is assumed by people imo

post from FOAF:

"For white folx applauding the images and video of a naked protestor in Portland that causes cops to retreat momentarily, I wanted you to know that a lot of BIPOC folx are not feeling great about how this action is being focused on and applauded, particularly as if this is a white woman and as if it’s revolutionary. Please do not believe this person invented this idea. African women have done this as a form of protest (link in the comments).

UPDATE: I think I need to post for clarity, I am not suggesting this person should not protest this way or that this is not a version of weaponizing privilege with the intention to help. I am sharing thoughts of Black folx in BIPOC groups I’m in because I think white folx and NBPOC like me need to consider these perspectives. I don’t know that the naked protestor is white or that they are a woman TBH (I’ve been informed the person is NBPOC by a few folx). I was not there, I don’t know what happened post these images.

The issue is how the images and action are being shared and applauded by white folx in a way to center whiteness, white feminism and the martyrdom of white women. Those folx seem to be reading the person as a white woman, calling her “Athena” and “Lady Godiva” and hash tagging ‘pussypower.’ That is the problematic behavior I am trying to discuss. The shift of the focus from Black folx to white women or NBPOC women and the lack of open understanding about the privileges at work. The second image was shared in one of the BIPOC groups I’m in online. I believe it’s a response to the first image (and others like it) posted by white women."

Is there a source on NBPOC? I've seen the same claimed but didn't see a source

other than that post (who is a real person that I have friends in common with), that's all I got atm

Thanks that's still helpful!

i applaud the aplomb with which the FOAF post roasts this deplorable problematic applauding, but i can't not help but wonder if 'folx' ought not be incorporated into BIPOC & NBPOC as output BIFOC & NBFOC to really stick it to those WASPy AFAB TERFs

fortunately, nobody cares what you think

that's colder than the coffee at Shari's

lol, ok maybe you *have* been to Portland

had a kimchee omelette at the Cameo Cafe on Sandy last summer. I love occupied chinook land and its people, forgive me my obnoxious intrusion into this ontological exposition

i applaud the aplomb with which the FOAF post roasts this deplorable problematic applauding, but i can't not help but wonder if 'folx' ought not be incorporated into BIPOC & NBPOC as output BIFOC & NBFOC to really stick it to those WASPy AFAB TERFs

Are those all streaming services?

good article

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2020/07/20/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-battle-of-portland/

it's really frustrating to live here right now. really frustrating.

everything is happening on twitter and i don't read twitter because it's not a good environment for me, a healthy environment for me, because you go on twitter and people spend hours arguing about the naked person if they were a guy or a woman or an enby and if they were white or a poc and those are important questions to ask, important discussions to have, and i don't need to be a part of that.

in the meantime i do have questions and the question i have is what the fuck is _happening_

from what i can tell, me sitting in my home just like most of everybody else is sitting safe in our homes because while this is not ok, none of this is ok, i have other important things that i'm trying to do to the best of my ability, because my ability to be of help depends on my being able to do those things...

from what i can tell the federal government is trying to create a fucking war here

from what i can tell there were a couple dozen kids who describe themselves as "feral youths" and they turned the apple store into a george floyd monument and anybody who wants to buy an apple is just getting one online probably

and last night a couple thousand moms and dads showed up and the police, in conjunction with federal forces, tear-gassed them and smashed shit and it's probably going to be on the news today

and who's going to be there tonight, nobody, nothing is planned, nothing is organized, maybe there's some twitter hashtag i'm not aware of where this stuff is being talked about

what the protesters are doing is important and what the media is doing is important and i want to do _something_ besides staring blankly into space terrified for hours on end but there's not really anything for me to do.

i tell myself over and over that what i need to do is take care of myself but what the president is doing in portland is making it extremely difficult, and i envy those of you who are still able to function on a daily basis, not because you're ok with it, like literally nobody is, even the people who are supporting the federal troops want _something_ else to happen

because i am not only not ok, i am not safe, and i don't know how to be safe, not now, not here.

Kate, please do what you need to do to take care of yourself.

If you’d like to check what’s going on, groups like Popular Mobilization (PopMob) have been posting updates, the Portland Mercury has a calendar of events, and there’s a lot of stuff listed at https://www.pdx-blm-events.com/

A federal judge is investigating whether the head of the Homeland Security Agency broke the law by publically posting photos taken inside a federal courthouse, which law, just like the HSA itself, was formulated to protect courthouses from terrorist attacks. It's time to bring back the facepalm.

is that what the kids are calling it nowadays