Steve Heikkila

Vanquisher of chaos, philosophy fan-boy, amateur alpinist, rock, and ice climber, halfway decent cook, not too shabby writer, gear geek.

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August 29: Crow and Abandoned Pier Damp, rainy Neah Bay, Washington.

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August 29: Cape Flattery Cliffs

August 29: Cape Flattery Cliffs

Breathtaking cliffs. Cobalt blue sea meets a damp, dark, green temperate rain forest.

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August 29: Cape Flattery The northernmost corner of the Continuous United States. What a beautiful, exotic place. Wet, misty, temperate rain forest. Lush, deep, dark green. Cedar and spruce. It's a magical place.

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August 30: Hurricane Ridge Vistor’s Center Hurricaine Ridge Visitor's Center, Olympic National Park.

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August 29: Devil’s Club Devil's Club has huge leaves! Not fun to hike through a thicket of this stuff. It's nasty, spiny stuff.

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July 14: Astoria Bridge and Old Pilings Spent a nice summer weekend in Astoria. I love this view of the bridge with the shadows of the old pilings reflecting on the surface of the river.

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May 23: Michael’s Chicago Italian Here is that funky wedge shaped building on Sandy Blvd (I'm shoot a lot on Sandy these days).

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May 25: Small Medieval Town Southeast 13th year Sandy.

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May 26: Little Baja Garden There's the place on Sandy that sells a steady business of those little Terra cotta fireplaces (and all other things terra cotta). It's all fenced in like an old junkyard.

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May 29: The Slammer This is the Slammer on SE Stark where it sort of converges with Sandy near 7th Avenue.

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May 26: 28th Ave Bridge over I-84. It's a bit dystopian here on the overpass connecting Northeast to Southeast Portland. And by the way, you are the product being sold. But you know that.

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May 27: Southeast Portland Interesting cluster of buildings on my walk to Night Market in Industrial Inner Southeast.

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May 28: Memorial Day on NE 28th Summery Memorial Day in Portland, and NE 28th is hopping.

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August 27: Foggy Shoreline

August 27: Foggy Shoreline

I’d planned for some months to pack pack along the Western shorline of the Olympic Penninsula. Days before my trip I got the flu. And despite being August it began to rain. Change of plans. Hotels. AirBnB. Day trips that afford dry sleeping.

When I pulled over for the first coast view near South Beach it was so socked in with fog I could barely see for 50 feet. I’d hoped to take a lot of…

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August 27: Pocked Stone at Beach 4 Water drip erosion? Gas bubbles in volcanic rock? I'm no geologist, but I know a good looking rock when I see one.

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August 27: That Bridge at Beach 4 Again The access bridge to Beach 4 from Hwy 101, thick in fog.

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August 27: Bridge to Beach 4

August 27: Bridge to Beach 4

It mercifully rained yesterday. There are a lot of fires in British Columbia. There are fires in Washington, Oregon, and California too, but there are especially a lot in BC. It seems to be the new normal as global warming accelerates.

The rain (and a shift in wind direction) cleared out the smoke. The sun returned today, but on the coast of the Olympic Peninsula it’s thick with fog. I stopped…

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