Outdoors

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Cache Me if You Can: Exploring Oregon’s secret and rapidly growing world of geocaching

My geocaching trial is off to an inauspicious start. After circling the block of my Bend neighborhood watching the virtual compass on my Android phone bounce from north to west and back to north, and finding myself no closer to the invisible X that marks the spot, I’m now blindly following the directions from my smartphone.

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Road Reconsidered: Tracing Terroir and Local Culture on Highway 18

Highway 18 may be a utility corridor carrying motorists from the mid-Willamette Valley to the Oregon Coast and back, but there are lots of gems to discover, especially if you divert onto Old 18. If you take this less-traveled road, you’ll find, among other things, that the natural resource industry of the old order is holding its place alongside the next-gen resource based industry. Oregon’s agricultural transformation from timber to grape is nowhere more evident than here.

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Riding

THE MANY ROLES OF HORSES IN MODERN-DAY OREGON RECREATION

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Urban Oasis: Forest Park

An oasis of adventure in urban Portland, Forest Park is a top destination for hikings biking, and nature exploration. 

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Chronicles of a Fly-fishing Odyssey

There are few places in the world where it’s possible to catch a Chinook salmon while standing on an ocean beach, pull a brook trout from a high mountain stream and land a nickel-bright summer steelhead while wading in sandals on an early July evening. In Oregon, though, that is just scratching the surface of fly-fishing possibilities.

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The Chronicles of a Fly-Fishing Odyssey Extended Gallery

To accompany the article in our print issue  written by Eric Flowers, here is an extended gallery of The Chronicle of a Fly-Fishing Odyssey in addition to what appeared in our July- August print issue. 

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Just Fore Fun

Mention golf in Oregon, and it likely conjures images of impressive woodland and seaside eighteen-hole courses known regionally and worldwide. But there’s another side to Oregon golf, and it’s closer to Caddyshack. 1859-Oregon’s Magazine takes a look at the dozens of par-three and executive courses, with a few par-four holes added in for flavor statewide, for golf lovers who may be short on time, money, skills or any com­bination thereof.