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07-24-2009, 01:09 PM
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What happened in Parkdale?
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07-24-2009, 01:38 PM
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It was probably a wildfire. Wildfires happen all the time in oregon.
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07-24-2009, 01:59 PM
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The boulders were only in the area without vegetation. Also, there were no charred trees.
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07-24-2009, 06:49 PM
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My first thought was that it was a firebreak.
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07-24-2009, 06:57 PM
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Crankier than average
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Looks like a landslide reworked by water to me. Check with the USGS.
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10-02-2009, 05:09 PM
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There were several large debris flows that occurred on Mt. Hood in November of 2006, 2 of which closed hwy 35 for quite awhile. This looks like one of them.
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10-02-2009, 08:29 PM
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This was the landslide of 2006 that had the Highway closed for several weeks while it was cleared. It was pretty heavily covered at the time.
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10-03-2009, 03:01 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hamellr
This was the landslide of 2006 that had the Highway closed for several weeks while it was cleared. It was pretty heavily covered at the time.
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Yep...
I forget which glacier it was, but it gave way causing a HUGE landslide that took out a large portion of HWY 35. You should have seen the spit where the Hood River meets the Columbia! It was insane.
Found a photo. It was 1000x worse in person.
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