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On The Road Photo Essay
The Other OregonExploring Abert Rim, Hart Mountain & the Steens MountainWith Jim and Brooke Stone ClementPhotos by Jim & Brooke Stone ClementEdited by M.G. Hudson Our friends and neighbors, Jim and Brooke Clement, are famous
for their canoe trips to Northwest lakes, rivers and creeks. This trip they drove
with their canoe to the deserts of Southeastern Oregon. They explored a little part
of the other Oregon -- Eastern Oregon-- where the high desert's trees and
rain are rare, where there are huge geological rifts pushing like frozen waves out
of the old volcanic worlds to form dramatic mountains that have steep cliffs on one
side, where there are lakes and wetlands, mostly alkaline, where anient glaciers
drained and formed these lake and marshes into basin depressions between the rifts.
This is where few people live because of the challenges of a lack of potable water
and the heat. Where there are small towns hanging on, long past the days of the mining
boom, or the sheep ranches, and the homestead movement (or land give away). Where
some tribes are reclaiming their ancient heritage. When I saw photos of Jim and Brooke's
loop through the Cascades, the Steens and Hart Mt.( and eventually to the Coast at
Eel Lake), I realized how little I knew of this other Oregon and asked them
to share their trip with West By Northwest.org readers.
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