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Portland Walks & Urban Hikes: A Jolly Good Sidewalk
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Portland Walks and Urban Hikes. Exploring Portland on Foot with Laura Foster. Portland Walks and Urban Hikes. The Settling of the West," 1936, by Edward Quigley, one of several WPA murals inside Portland's Irvington School. Monday, August 29, 2011. A Jolly Good Sidewalk. Until around 1904, most Portland sidewalks were wood. In that year, a city ordinance declared no wooden sidewalks. So one era ended and in this decade,. Most of our “artificial stone” sidewalks are turning the century mark. Part of choic...
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Portland Walks & Urban Hikes: Fanno Creek Trail closes its gaps
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Portland Walks and Urban Hikes. Exploring Portland on Foot with Laura Foster. Portland Walks and Urban Hikes. The Settling of the West," 1936, by Edward Quigley, one of several WPA murals inside Portland's Irvington School. Wednesday, January 9, 2013. Fanno Creek Trail closes its gaps. I wrote this article which appeared September 7, 2012 on the newsline page of. Such a treat for us Portlanders. Some homes back right up,. Sans fences, along the trail. An Oregon white oak along the trail. One July morning...
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Portland Walks & Urban Hikes: Cob, Glass Mosaic and Southeast Portland
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Portland Walks and Urban Hikes. Exploring Portland on Foot with Laura Foster. Portland Walks and Urban Hikes. The Settling of the West," 1936, by Edward Quigley, one of several WPA murals inside Portland's Irvington School. Wednesday, January 27, 2010. Cob, Glass Mosaic and Southeast Portland. Walking west on Yamhill, turn left on 37th. At Taylor is the first City Repair site: the Memorial Lighthouse. This memorial to a bicyclist hit by a car here in 1998 has a cob column with a living roof and a...From ...
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Portland Walks & Urban Hikes: A New Walk: Goose Hollow to Top of Skyline
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Portland Walks and Urban Hikes. Exploring Portland on Foot with Laura Foster. Portland Walks and Urban Hikes. The Settling of the West," 1936, by Edward Quigley, one of several WPA murals inside Portland's Irvington School. Thursday, December 10, 2009. A New Walk: Goose Hollow to Top of Skyline. A long and challenging walk (for an urban outing), about 1000 feet elevation, about 4.5 hours duration, about 7 miles. Restrooms at Audubon, which you'll pass on the way out and way back. Doing to rehabilitate th...
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Portland Walks & Urban Hikes: Swan Island Beaches
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Portland Walks and Urban Hikes. Exploring Portland on Foot with Laura Foster. Portland Walks and Urban Hikes. The Settling of the West," 1936, by Edward Quigley, one of several WPA murals inside Portland's Irvington School. Wednesday, November 10, 2010. An Urban River Walk. If you want to learn more about Swan Island's history and take a longer walk linking up to the very cool Kenton downtown, see my book Portland City Walks. Laura O. Foster. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Portland, 10 to 11:30 am.
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Portland Walks & Urban Hikes: Stairs to Love
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Portland Walks and Urban Hikes. Exploring Portland on Foot with Laura Foster. Portland Walks and Urban Hikes. The Settling of the West," 1936, by Edward Quigley, one of several WPA murals inside Portland's Irvington School. Thursday, November 18, 2010. It's raining so it's a good day to walk. Why? The Pioneer Courthouse's cupola. Multnomah County Library's Central Library. The Portland Armory, now home to Portland Center Stage. I write about them in The Portland Stairs Book. Laura O. Foster. 7 to 8 pm Fr...
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Portland Walks & Urban Hikes: Hiking the Wildwood: 3 days at 2 miles per hour
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Portland Walks and Urban Hikes. Exploring Portland on Foot with Laura Foster. Portland Walks and Urban Hikes. The Settling of the West," 1936, by Edward Quigley, one of several WPA murals inside Portland's Irvington School. Friday, March 25, 2011. Hiking the Wildwood: 3 days at 2 miles per hour. We love mile markers: a blue blaze and quarter-. Mile increments were trail highlights. The dog joined us on Day 3. Stumps of trees cut a century ago nurture new life. Provided just the sort of oddball juxtaposit...
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Portland Walks & Urban Hikes: MAX and the Mountain: Riding the MAX Green Line to a Mt. Talbert Hike
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Portland Walks and Urban Hikes. Exploring Portland on Foot with Laura Foster. Portland Walks and Urban Hikes. The Settling of the West," 1936, by Edward Quigley, one of several WPA murals inside Portland's Irvington School. Thursday, April 1, 2010. MAX and the Mountain: Riding the MAX Green Line to a Mt. Talbert Hike. In my years of exploring so many great places in the Portland area I've discovered it's easy to scratch the explorer’s itch without a long drive. The hike is muddy in winter and spring; I r...
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Portland Walks & Urban Hikes: Forest, Bridge and Lunch Hike: Springville Road, St. Johns Bridge and St. Johns
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Portland Walks and Urban Hikes. Exploring Portland on Foot with Laura Foster. Portland Walks and Urban Hikes. The Settling of the West," 1936, by Edward Quigley, one of several WPA murals inside Portland's Irvington School. Saturday, February 27, 2010. Forest, Bridge and Lunch Hike: Springville Road, St. Johns Bridge and St. Johns. This walk in and out of Forest Park has all that, plus (there’s always a catch! The road was originally called Hillside Drive, but in the 1930s the Sons of Norway, a fraternal...