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Phyllis and Jim's White Salmon Home
Photos from our 2011 Trip
All images are copyright © James W. Blilie, 2001 through 2011, All rights reserved
White Salmon:
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Jamie on his special chair at White Salmon that Anne gave him:
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Spring 2001
In 2001, I had the lucky chance to buy the 20-acre property adjacent to Jeanne and Steve Mason's place on
the north. Luckily, this was the depth of the "dot-com bust" and I had just gotten a new job with the FAA
that brought a substantial raise: The timing was perfect! Rob Hackman left the place in quite a mess; but
it was and is a wonderful place. With the view north to Mt. Adams and the view southwest to Mt. Hood,
the site is amazing. We will eventually retire here.
I had been going to Jeanne and Steve's place ("the cabin") since the mid-1990s. One time, casually, I
said that if Hackman ever sold, I'd buy his place, never thinking it would happen. Then in February 2001,
Jeanne and I were hiking on Cougar Mountain near Seattle and she mentioned that the place was for sale.
I visited in March, made an offer that month, and we closed in June 2001. We moved in on 21-July-2001.
The house-warming and new well came in the summer of 2001. That summer also brought the reunion of
me and Phyllis after living 2000 miles apart for 18 years(!). Each year since, we have spent time in White Salmon
with friends, hiking, and sight-seeing, and making improvements and cleaning the place up. It was a farmstead
for more than 50 years and there was quite an accumulation of junk on the place.
We love our place. The hiking is second to none. It's our annual chance to catch up with my friends in
Seattle.
Adams at sunset
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MSP MSP-PDX flight, 18-Jun |
On arrival!! |
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In town |
First views of Mt. Hood (note the kestrel in flight, upper right) |
And Adams |
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Mt. Adams Panorama
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Peninsula Hike |
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Panorama of the front of our place
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Next day, we left for our road trip through Oregon and Northern CA. Down the dry, east side of OR, and up the coast to return |
Lunch at Maupin, OR, on the Deschutes River |
The desert of eastern OR |
The desert of eastern OR |
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Panorama of the Oregon Volcanoes from Criterion Summit which is a few miles south of Maupin, OR, on US Hwy 197. Well worth a visit on a clear day. All the Cascade Volcanoes on display from Mt. Jefferson to Broken Top
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John Day Fossil Beds, Clarno Unit |
John Day Fossil Beds, Clarno Unit |
Hwy 97, south of Bend |
The approach to Crater Lake National Park |
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Drive-through tree! |
Arrival at Marty and Elizabeth's place in Brookings, OR |
Mill Stream Beach, Brookings |
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Mill Stream Beach, Brookings |
Beach, near Brookings |
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Elizabeth's pot pie |
The finished product; YUM! |
Old-growth fuschia |
Final group shot |
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Sea Lion Caves, Oregon |
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Home again, home again, jiggety-jig |
I removed the old bridge from my #1 B00 guitar and replaced it with a more appropriate one. |
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We got Jamie a bike to ride |
Adams at Sunset |
Upper Catherine Creek / Allen Oaks Hike |
Upper Catherine Creek / Allen Oaks Hike |
Upper Catherine Creek / Allen Oaks Hike |
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Jamie, Jeff and I hiked at Tom McCall |
Jamie at Husum Falls |
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Our neighbor in Snowden, Gordon and his shop: Mya-Moe Ukuleles |
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Jamie and Cara's fort |
Saturday dinner with Tim, Jef, Nannette, my Mom, Anne, Anne and Jeanne's Dad Jim, Jeanne, Gaye, Steve, and Ben: We needed our big table! |
Hiking our new Mtn bike trails, which Jeanne and Steve (mainly) built |
Hiking our new Mtn bike trails |
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Hiking our new Mtn bike trails |
Hiking our new Mtn bike trails |
Jamie and Cara enjoyng the big jump |
Big group shot |
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Jeff and Nannette leaving to drive (!) back to Minnesota |
Cara on her bike |
Biking near our place |
Ben, enjoying The Park, after we removed the tree house |
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Crescent moon |
Fireworks! |
Pizza making
Star gazing |
I hiked up Mt. Defiance (the back side, 1500 vertical feet) |
Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Defiance |
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Hood and Adams from Mt. Defiance |
Steve, shoving the boat off its props |
The boat after steve moved it
The Park before the boat was chopped |
Cutting up the boat! |
Resulting views from The Park |
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Ben, Gaye, and Cara, taking off after their visit (quite a set of bikes!) |
The new valence in the middle bedroom |
At the Big Pondersoa Pine |
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The place up the private road at the bottom of Bates (gravel part) |
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With the Wetzels |
Playing with Luna |
Playing with Luna |
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Full dumpster |
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Views from The Park |
Kite flying |
Hood by moonlight |
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PDX-MSP |
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Background image is Lupine in the fields at our place, 2009
Last updated: 12-Jun-2024
