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SILVERTONAPPEAL.COM ❚ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2019 ❚ 3B Bloom Continued from Page 1B grass bloom. Soon the images spread like wild- fire across the internet, and by the end of June, seemingly the entirety of the Pacific Northwest’s outdoor community had heard of the bloom at Cof- fin Mountain. I visited at the end of June this year early on a Friday and en- countered some 30 peo- ple, with many more on the way. Hardly a day passes that I do not see at least a half-dozen photos of Coffin Mountain on my various social media feeds. This hike has been “discovered,” as they say on the internet. Through various friends in the out- door community I also heard stories of hikers having “snowball fights” with bear grass blooms, of huge crowds of tour- ists, and of long lines to park at the trailhead’s small parking lot. With no permits re- quired to visit Coffin Mountain, gauging the rise in popularity is a dif- ficult task. When I asked around my outdoor cir- cles, many agreed that the hike did not seem crowded in comparison with more famous hikes in the Cascades and Co- RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS Continued from Page 2B with a mixing valve or combination faucet, spe- cifically: Maximum water temperature 82°F inside the women's restroom and 91°F at the kitchen hand sink. Point deduc- tion: 3. July 24: No priority violations Taco Bell Location: 450 Wallace Road NW, Salem Date: July 31 Score: 100 No priority violations Tiga Sushi Bar & Asian Bistro Xerophyllum tenax, better known in the Pacific Northwest as bear grass MATT REEDER / SPECIAL TO THE STATESMAN JOURNAL lumbia River Gorge. While there were days in which hundreds of hikers roamed the green slopes here, this is a reality on every summer day at Ore- gon’s most famous back- country destinations. Many of the hikers I asked did not find the hike to be all that crowd- ed, even at the height of its notoriety in late June through mid-July. With that said, it was clear that the popularity of Coffin Mountain exploded in the summer of 2019. What this means going forward is anybody’s guess. Hikers visiting the mountain slopes in the next few years may be surprised to discover that bear grass is not an annu- al wildflower. Beargrass blooms on an irregular cycle every four to six years; as far as I can tell, the last super bloom on Coffin Mountain before this year was during the summer of 2014, the first time I hiked the trail. While there will usually be some bear grass to be found on the slopes of the mountain, it is unlikely we will see a super bloom again here for several years. Hikers visiting next year are likely to be disap- pointed in the lack of beargrass. Even without the super bloom, this is still a fabulous wildflower hike. I counted over 60 different species of wild- flowers on my first visit, and wildflower enthusi- asts should have plenty to Location: 260 Liberty St. SE, Salem Date: July 29 Score: 92 Priority violations ❚ Raw or ready-to-eat food is not properly pro- tected from cross con- tamination, specifically: Container of raw chicken stored above a container of seafood in the walk-in refrigerator. Point de- duction: 5. ❚ Food-contact sur- faces are not clean, spe- cifically: Meat cleaver stored on the magnetic knife rack is soiled. Point deduction: 3. July 25: Priority vio- lations ❚ Potentially hazard- ous food is not main- tained at proper hot or cold holding temper- atures, specifically: Foods in the prep line re- frigerator are 50-51F (chicken 51F, beef 50F, ol- ives 51F, hard boiled eggs 51F). No thermometer in prep line. Foods in the walk-in refrigerator are 46-47F (grated cheese 46F, hamburger patties 47F, jalepenos 46F). Am- bient air thermometer reads 45F. Point deduc- tion: 5. ❚ Chemical sanitizers are not approved, specifi- cally: Sanitizer for wipe cloths is greater than 200 PPM chlorine. Turns the test strip black. Point de- duction: 5. July 30: No priority Top Dog Sports Grill Location: 1798 12th St. SE, Salem Date: July 25 (rein- spected July 30) Score: 90 Left (top and bottom): Wildflowers in bloom along the Coffin Mountain trail. Right: Xerophyllum tenax, better known in the Pacific Northwest as bear grass. Above: Bear grass along the Coffin Mountain trail. PHOTOS BY MATT REEDER/SPECIAL TO THE STATESMAN JOURNAL see with or without the copious displays of bear- grass. What the precipitous rise in popularity demon- strates more than any- thing is the influence so- cial media has on the way hikers recreate these days. Many use sites such as Instagram and Face- book to find new destina- tions to hike; even a handful of photos can create exponential rises in popularity to beautiful sites that are not too diffi- cult to access. While many hikers are discover- ing previously obscure lo- cations and sharing their discoveries, the rising popularity of many out- door destinations are also driving some hikers to no longer post photos on so- cial media. Only time will tell if next summer will mark even larger crowds at Coffin Mountain, or if the “Super Bloom” phenome- non will be limited to 2019. It was a summer to violations air observed in the dis- pensing tube. Point de- duction: 5. Vitality Location: 1475 Mt. Hood Ave., Woodburn Date: July 31 Score: 90 Priority violations ❚ Refrigerated, ready- to-eat, potentially haz- ardous food has not been consumed within the re- quired time period or is not properly date- marked, specifically: To- mato basil soup date marked July 22 inside the grab and go box; facility using the best-by date on packaging as the disposal date. Point deduction: 5. ❚ The chlorine sanitiz- er concentration, pH, or temperature is not ade- quate, specifically: No chlorine residual mea- sured at the dish washer, Whole Latte Love Location: 725 Sum- mer St. NE, Salem (mo- bile unit) Date: July 26 remember, and the beau- ty of Coffin Mountain’s beargrass meadows will linger long in the memo- ries of many Oregon hik- ers. Matt Reeder is the au- thor of three hiking guide- books: PDX Hiking 365, Off the Beaten Trail and 101 Hikes in the Majestic Mount Jefferson Region. You can follow his adven- tures at www.offthebea tentrailpdx.com Score: N/A Priority violations ❚ A test kit is not pro- vided or is not accurate enough to measure the concentration of sanitiz- ing solutions, specifical- ly: No test strips provided for sanitizer bucket. PUBLIC POLICY NOTICES Public Notices are published by the Statesman Journal and available online at w w w .S ta te s m a n J o u r n a l.c o m . 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