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E x p lo rin g O regon; T ravel G uide for the
Adventurous Wanderer
in Print
EXPLORING
I OREGON
Travel Guide for the Adventurous Wanderer
MARK
By Mark Highberger
Maverick Publications; 2000
So you think you know Oregon.
You’ve seen the high desert o f the
east, the Douglas fir forests o f the
Cascades, the billowing orchards
o f Hood R iver and the lush
farmlands ofthe Willamette Valley.
You’ve admired Haystack Rock at
Cannon Beach, the aquarium at
Newport, Crater Lake, the Columbia
G orge, T im berline Lodge and
Mount Hood.
Unless you’ve been to the places
Mark Highberger’s been to, you
don’t know Oregon. Adventurous
Wanderer, Highberger takes you to
dozens of places w here the tourists
rarely go and some that even
longtime residents o f the state have
barely heard of.
Places like the Finley Refuge, a
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NORTHWEST & CENTRAL
S a s q u a tc h B o o k s ; 2 0 0 0
After crisscrossing Oregon from
Portland to Bend and Mount Hood
to Eugene, John Zilly ladles out the
roads that get passed over by the
crowds speeding along the main
highway tow ard some heavily hyped
"major attraction” or other.
Exploring Oregon is divided into
five se c tio n s by g e o g ra p h y ;
northw est, southw est, central,
northeast and southeast. Altogether,
it describes nearly 40 different
destinations.
Each description includes a map
showing how to get there and a
capsule sum m ary o f essential
information; most also include
photographs.
For out-of-staters who are planning
a visit to Oregon and want to see
more than the usual “tourist stuff,”
E xp lo rin g O regon w ill be an
in v a lu a b le g u id e. A nd for
Oregonians who want to get to really
know their beautiful state, it will
become a lifelong companion.
H IQ H B ffiG E R
Kissing the Trail; Northwest & Central
Oregon Mountain Bike Trails
B y J o h n Z il l y
5,000-acre wildlife reserve just
south o f Corvallis.. .or the Oregon
Vortex, a spot between Grants Pass
and Medford where the normal laws
o f physics seem to have been
r e p e a le d ...o r “C aptain J a c k ’s
Stronghold,” a lava desert on the
Oregon-California border where a
band o f 50 Modoc Indians fought
off the U.S. Army for two years in
the 1870s...or S tein’s Pilar, a
dramatic rock spire souring 350
feet above the Ochoco Mountains.
Highberger, a native Oregonian,
originally wrote about these places
in a series o f articles for The
Bulletin, a daily newspaper in Bend.
Although the places Highberger
describes are “off the beaten track,”
m ost a re n ’t very far o ff they
generally can be reached by car, or
with a short hike. They’re the quiet,
out-of-the-way spots on the side
mountain-bike love in Kissing the
Trait: Northwest & Central Oregon.
Surveyors Ridge, the Tillamook,
and McKenzie Blue Pool are here,
but Zilly also carved tum son Phil’s
Trail, surfed Newberry Caldera’s
pum ice slopes, ripped around
Waldo Lake, then blew out four
inner tubes on the riotous descent
from Moon Point - all in search o f
the perfect trail.
Considered the best singletrack in
Northwest and Central Oregon, it
offers:
More than 75 trai 1 descriptions,
all within 3 hours o f Portland
Detailed, GPS-ready maps for
every ride, with elevation profiles
and trail mileages
Trails for all ability levels -
from rail-trails to zippy descents to
rock jungle gyms
Rides rated by skill, distance,
terrain, elevation, and overall
difficulty
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Best seasons to go, maps,
camping options, and phone and
web contacts for every ride
Routes covering more than
1,000 miles o f mountain biking
Author o f eight m ountain-bike
guidebooks, including Mountain
B ik e ! S o u th w est W ash in g to n
(Sasquatch Books), John Zilly has
researched, mapped, and written
about more than 400 Northwest
trails - and no one does it more
accurately or more vividly. When
not working in Seattle, he’s likely
playing on the trails somewhere
between Mount St. Helens and
Moab.
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