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| With my hosts for the next couple months... After being picked up at the airport, we had lunch in downtown Portland before driving home to Camp Sherman . |
McKenzie Pass
On the second day after I arrived we took a drive into a nearby town called Sisters. After doing some errands and having lunch there, we took a drive up to the McKenzie Pass. The Pass is beautiful... You can look 360 degrees around at all the snow capped mountains. There was hardly anybody around and I felt like I was in Narnia! Especially exciting was the snow, which combined with the dark coloured lava fields, looked like cookies and cream.
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| It's coldddd 'Summit - McKenzie Pass - Elev 5325' |
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| Walking up to the look-out... The wind was crazy freezing |
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| This is my mum's cousin, Heidi, who I am staying with :) |
Snow Ball'n!
McKenzie Pass closed!
Just this morning I read in the newspaper that the McKenzie Pass, that we went to just a few days ago and that I thought was awesome, has been closed for the season!! Below is a rather interesting extract from the newspaper article:
"The closure date is about two weeks later than in the past two years, and efforts to reopen the highway will begin in mid-March..." - The Bulletin
http://www.ktvz.com/news/29765841/detail.html
So, in summary, because she knew I was coming, Mother Nature decided that she would keep the weather favourable for 2 weeks longer than usual just so that I would get to see the Pass!
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