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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Photos of Denizens and "Turisters"

Denizens pictured are various residents of the river canyons -- two-legged's, four-legged's, finned, feathered and others; for example:  

Basking Snake
(early spring 1)

Blue Heron Nests
(downstream view)

Blue Heron Nests
(upstream view)



Feeding Deer in Dawn-Lit River Fog
(south bank of Columbia River near Walula)
February


Yellow Jacket Taking Water at Spring

"Turister" is a term I first heard in Summer of 1968 from a hardware store owner in Vermont. 

Jeanne, Erik (then 18 months) and I spent that summer in Cambridge.  We visited Vermont one week and climbed Mount Washington carrying Erik and gear on our backs.  Seems now that we were quite "young and dumb" then; but fortunately, we were also young and strong.  When we arrived at the overnight shelter at the top, both of us utterly exhausted, the kid, well-rested, was ready to play well into night.

On the way back to Boston I stopped in the hardware store and chatted with the owner whom I had met a few days before.  As I was leaving he summarized "folks" with,

"There are three kinds of people --fahmers, bznissmen and turisters -- ya' see all kinds of turisters."

We see some astonishing turisters along the Snake River and I'll share some of these -- and  perhaps later some of their back stories.  We'll illustrate with a couple of turisters:

Dugout Canoe Towed by Zodiac

Spokane Cycling Club Touring Snake River
Paddle Wheeler
Cruises summers between Lewisto, Idaho and Portland, Oregon
(appoximately 400 river miles)

Organizer Directs Dougout Canoes from Shore

A considerable part of the Snake River canyons are marvelously remote --Thousand Springs, Yellowstone, Hells Canyon, Frank Church Wilderness

A smaller part of the river is navagable.  Routine TugBarge commerce extends to Lewiston, Idaho (465 river miles from the Pacific Ocean.) and Coast Guard



View across Green River Canyons toward Moab
(Janurary) a







Washington State Women's Crew
transits
Paddle Wheeler on Snake River
(Cruises summers between Lewiston, Idaho and Portland, Oregon)



Night Passage of Paddle Wheeler on Snake River
(Cruises summers between Lewiston, Idaho and Portland, Oregon)


US Coast Guard Inland Bouy Tender
(on Snake River 460 miles from Pacific Ocean)



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