The Southern Willamette Valley’s Outdoor Magazine
It’s a Friday afternoon in February, and our NWAC weather forecasts come bearing good news. A forecast of several new inches of snowfall means the group text is popping off with weekend plans and ecstatic friends.
In the South Willamette Valley, where the Coast Range folds into the broad floor of the Willamette Basin and oak-dotted prairies once stretched as far as the eye could see, fire has always been more than an element.
“One of the great things about making up lists of obscure objectives to pass the time in the rainy season is that the crowds will be elsewhere.”
When I chaired the Lane County Board of Commissioners, the board denied Ed King permission to blow up a butte in Oakridge to create another gravel mine, which would make him millions of dollars… two new commissioners, David Loveall and Ryan Ceniga, apparently serve money over people and voted to allow the gravel mine to move forward.
For the majority of my 34 years, I have identified as a staunch non-runner… There have, however, been several periods throughout my life when my non-running self is superseded by a different me. A running me.