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Wednesday, August 24, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Tuya: A distinctive local geological feature
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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
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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.
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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
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