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Cannon Beach Escape Room offers a trip to pirate days
By Brenna Visser
Cannon Beach Gazette
When Natalie Miller and Blake
Lyman visited Cannon Beach as
children, they always felt there was
something missing.
There was always plenty to do on
the beach if the weather was nice, but
as a kid on those rainy days, Lyman
remembers not feeling “engaged”
with the town.
“We wanted to bring something
to town that people could do that
didn’t involve the beach. Even when
it’s rainy parents want to make mem-
ories with their kids,” Lyman said.
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Out of this sentiment came the
opening of Cannon Beach’s first Participants solve a variety of puzzles to unlock clues as to how to escape
Escape Room — a live action chal- Cannon Beach’s first escape room attraction.
lenge where a group of people are
locked in a room and must solve a
“This is such a crazy idea. Get is engaged?”
Over the weekend, a group of
variety of puzzles along a storyline people locked in a room with people
in under an hour to escape. In Can- they don’t know and solve a prob- family and friends participated in
the Escape Room’s soft opening to
non Beach, Lyman and Miller plan lem? But it’s so fun,” Lyman said.
The couple got the idea after do- test the scenario of clues and puzzles
to have two themed rooms: The pi-
rate room that would be a perma- ing one in Portland earlier this year, Miller and Lyman developed. The
nent feature and another that would and three months later will officially room is relatively cozy in size but
open their own at 248 N Spruce St. dark in nature, being adorned with a
change out themes.
variety of treasure chests, pirate flags
Escape Rooms have been gaining on June 8.
“It’s something I would have and gold doubloons that all may (or
popularity in areas like Portland and
Vancouver, British Columbia, but loved to do when I was a kid,” Miller may not) be a clue to escaping.
When the group enters, the door
this will be the first for the North said. “Nowadays, how often is it that
you’re not on a phone, that everyone clicks shut behind and a video starts
Coast.
to play explaining the scenario. The
story goes that fictional yet most
evil pirate on the Pacific Ocean
One-Eyed Jack has kidnapped your
party, and everyone has one hour to
solve the riddles before “walking
the plank.” According to Lyman and
Miller, there is no real plank to walk
— just disappointment to face.
Once the timer started counting
down, everyone dispersed into sep-
arate corners in a sort of chaos, over-
turning chairs and flipping over flags
in the hunt for clues.
“We tried to make some clues
more logic-based, other spatial, and
some you just need to be persistent,”
Miller said. “It takes a lot of imagi-
nation.”
But designing a scavenger hunt
of complex clues is even harder than
solving them at times. Lyman and
Miller said it took multiple attempts
to workshop and tweak the game, of-
ten doing run throughs in their base-
ment or bringing puzzles to family
dinners to ask for input. The key is
to make sure all of the clues fit to-
gether, and to adjust it to ensure the
puzzles weren’t too hard or too easy
for the general public.
“We wanted our rooms to be adult
and kid friendly,” Miller said. “It’s
something to do on a rainy Friday
Arts Association presents ‘Landscapes as Perception’
Join the Cannon Beach
Arts Association for an open-
ing reception of “Landscapes
as Perception,” a show taking
place 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday,
June 17, at the Cannon Beach
Gallery, 1064 S. Hemlock St.
The exhibit will explore
landscapes from three artists
— Sidonie Caron, Christo-
pher Perry and J. Scott Wil-
son — that will be on display
through Sunday, July 16.
Guests are encouraged to
attend the artist talk 11 a.m.
Sunday, June 18, at the gal-
lery.
The exhibit features three
distinct landscape styles and
mediums interpreting the
horizon, time and space in
unique ways.
Caron has shown at the
gallery before and works
largely in oils. Her work hints
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A landscape by Sidonie Caron
at Fauvism, the association
said in a release: “It captures
the vibrant colors of the land
and sea at dusk.”
Perry works in oil and kiln
glass, and is a new artist at the
association. His abstract kiln-
glass work “allows the audi-
ence to interpret the moment
in time which the landscape
is depicting,” the association
said.
Wilson, a local artist, owns
Polaris Gallery in Manzanita.
“Working in oil on canvas,
his landscapes perfectly cap-
ture the height of the sky as
the storms wait patiently to
roll in,” the association said.
The opening is family
friendly. Complimentary re-
freshments will be served
thanks to Cannon Beach
Fresh Foods, the Wine Shack
and Bald Eagle Coffee.
The show is sponsored
by Claudia Toutain-Dorbec,
local author of “A Season At
Monet’s Garden.” The author
will also sign copies of her
book during the association’s
book talk in July.
For more information
about the show and other up-
coming events, visit cannon-
beacharts.org, or find it on
Facebook; 503-436-0744.
New vendors at Astoria Market
Now in its 18th season,
Astoria Sunday Market runs
through Oct. 8 from 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m, on 12th Street in
the historic downtown hub.
Featured artist Bill W. Dodge
provided the artwork for this
year’s poster promoting Asto-
ria Sunday Market.
There are currently 170
vendor applications for the
upcoming season with more
arriving every day. New ven-
dors include Goosepoint Oys-
ters, Pacific Crab Company
and Rawk Stars with their
probiotic kefir water. Also,
new this year is The Beautiful
Pig, offering European style
dry cured salamis and meats.
For more information
about Astoria Sunday Market
visit
www.AstoriaSunday-
Market.com.
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night, or a creative way to have a
birthday party.”
Back in the room, the chaos
slowed and everyone gathered around
one puzzle, fiddling and fidgeting
with last of the clues. The team then
busted out the door with cries of cel-
ebration, after finishing in 31 minutes
and 36 second — which so far, is the
record.
Serena Cline, one of the partici-
pants, said at first she was scared to
try it but found the whole experience
to be fun.
“The hardest part is communicat-
ing all of the clues to each other. But
it was so rewarding to escape,” Cline
said. “I’m just glad I didn’t have to
walk the plank.”
Miller said the group solved clues
in ways she didn’t anticipate, but ulti-
mately that being creative is the point.
“I love seeing people’s strenths
come out, and seeing strangers work
together,” she said.
People can register for one-hour
time slots on their website, cannon-
beachescaperoom.com.
Business
hours will be 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Thursday through Monday. Tickets
are $25 for adults and $20 for chil-
dren. Lyman and Miller recommend
children younger than 8 years old be
accompanied by a parent.
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