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14 Wednesday, August 24, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Tuya: A distinctive local geological feature Seats available on bond oversight committee By Craig f. eisenbeis Correspondent The Sisters School Board will be appointing five com- munity members to fill the Bond Facilities Oversight Committee. Terms could be as long as three years. To be eligible for appoint- ment the candidate must live in the school district, must not be an officer or employee of the district, and must be a qualified voter of the district. Qualifications include ability to solve problems in a positive manner, participa- tion in school activities and committees; ability to attend facilities oversight commit- tee meetings, and willing- ness to commit time to con- duct checks and balances to help create transparency and oversight in the allocations of bond monies. Contact Melanie Petterson, school board sec- retary, at mel.petterson@ sisters.k12.or.us to receive an application packet or down- load it from the district’s website at http://sisters.k12. or.us. You may also pick up the application packet at the dis- trict office. The completed application must be turned in to the District Administration Office by 4 p.m. on Friday, September 9. Candidates will be notified of interview dates and times. Interviews will be held at the district office. Tuyas are relatively rare and unusual geologi- cal features that are found in exotic cold-climate loca- tions such as far northern British Columbia, Iceland, Antarctica, and Tuva, Russia, near the Siberia-Mongolian border. If you don’t want to go that far to see one, there is one other place on the planet where they can be found that is not quite so hard to reach. You can simply drive up to Santiam Pass. Hayrick Butte and Hogg Rock are two classic exam- ples of an unusual flat-topped geological phenomenon with vertical sides called tuyas. Hogg Rock is the mas- sive block of stone on the north side of Highway 20 that the road clings to and wraps around, just west of the Santiam Pass summit. Hayrick Butte is the flat- topped, rocky companion of Hoodoo Butte, home of Hoodoo Ski Resort. Tuyas are formed when a volcano erupts from beneath a thick sheet of glacial ice and burns its way to the surface. As the molten rock melts its way into the bottom of the glacier, the lava directly in contact with the ice begins to cool rapidly, forming a verti- cal wall of rock that forms a dike of sorts encircling the eruption. Like a child’s back- yard inflatable wading pool, this solidifying ring of rock cradles a pool of the still- liquid lava and insulates it from the glacier as the flow continues. When the contained lava pool itself finally solidi- fies, what is left — after the glacier is gone — is a huge, circular, flat-topped block of rock. The presence of tuyas at Santiam Pass is, therefore, further evidence of extensive past glaciation of the area. The word “tuya” comes from the name of the proto- typical Tuya Butte in north- ern British Columbia. The term itself was applied world- wide to all formations of this nature, after the geological phenomenon was first stud- ied in Canada’s Tuya Range. Now preserved in British Columbia’s Tuya Mountains Provincial Park, the area is located about 150 miles east-northeast of Juneau, Alaska, and 60 miles south of the Yukon border. The word “tuya” is believed to be derived from a local native, or First Nation, language of Athabaskan origins. Our local tuya of Hogg Rock is named for “Colonel” Thomas Egenton Hogg, an Oregon railroad promoter of the late nineteenth century. He wasn’t really a colonel, and the Hogg Rock project wasn’t much of a railroad. Hogg Rock was the site of Hogg’s ridiculous farce of a railroad fiasco that involved a mule-drawn rail car over a short stretch of track. Hogg’s deception was designed to allow him to technically claim that he had completed a trans-Cascade Range railroad crossing. Hogg’s railroad crew laid a short stretch of track over the pass. Then, in wagons, he hauled a disassembled boxcar to the site and had it put back together. To complete the ruse, he boldly proclaimed • Bi-Mart insert: There’s still time for camping before school starts! The Coleman 4-person Dome Tent is marked down over 33% , now just $39.97! Old-School To Go! Lunch & Dinner CCB#151832 BARBER SHOP Vuturans Discounts & Hot Shavus! Walk-Ins NEW on! ti Loca Take Out / Eat In 541-54T-SPOT (7768) 541-815-1523 These are BBQ days! St. Lojis-style Pork Ribs, jjst $2.99/ lb. in valje packs! WHY COOK? Sales • Service • Installation Dale Lester • Ray’s Food Place insert: found along the outer mar- gins of present-day Hayrick Butte. “Hayrick” is merely another word for haystack; and — not so coincidentally — the shape of the present- day cinder cone of Hoodoo Butte very much resembles a haystack. It is easy to draw a conclusion as to which name belongs where, and the story of the confused mapmaker seems altogether plausible. Regardless, the names were recorded and have persisted to this day. So, now that you know all about this unique geological form, you will have a snappy comeback when someone addresses you with the chal- lenge of “What’s it tuya?” Pasta Dishes, Paninis, Desserts Homemade from scratch Beer & Wine for here or to go Door & Opener Tune-Up - $89 Check ojt this week’s inserts in The Nugget, offering yoj great specials for sjmmer ojtdoor weather. Here are jjst a few: that the mule-drawn rail car, which was dragged across the summit, constituted a real railroad entitling him to the fruits of his “completed” contract — but that’s a story for another time. On the south side of Highway 20, the tuya known as Hayrick Butte also has a very interesting tale of how its name came to be. Local lore has it that the names of Hoodoo and Hayrick Buttes were inadvertently switched by a cartographer unfamiliar with the Santiam Pass land- marks, and that story makes a lot of sense. The term hoodoo is asso- ciated with rock promontories and buttresses such as those SISTERS GARAGE DOORS Residential • Commercial DON’T MISS OUT! photo by craiG f. eisenbeis hayrick Butte, on the left, with its rocky hoodoos, is a classic example of a volcanic tuya. Open 12pm-12am Tues-Sun 161 N. Elm St. #A, Sisters (Next to Metamorphosis) D! LOCALLYOWNE our Sake R Spot y spot! 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