Ray Atkeson’s Winter
Oregon photographer Ray Atkeson chronicled the rise of winter sports culture in Oregon.
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Pendleton Round-Up
Pendleton Round-Up The Claim Pendleton Round-Up is a real-deal, authentic Old West phenomenon unlike any other rodeo. The Reality History is authentically repeated every September in Pendleton, with a bigger purse and more thrills than most rodeos. The Pendleton Round-Up has been bucking every year since 1910 and, miraculously, the essence of the rodeo hasn’t changed much. “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it,” says Wayne Brooks, a rodeo announcer who has worked the Pendleton Round-Up for years. “They’ve seen 50,000 to 60,000 people for a hundred years, so they must be doing something right.” The bucking chutes still have wooden gates from 1939. Cowboys still flush with adrenaline thanks to the unique “run-in” system—the steer runs down a fifty-foot chute adjacent to the cowboy, who must time the ride down his own chute with absolute precision before they both emerge onto a grass infield. (At other rodeos, animals and…
Breaking Ground: Oregon Olive Oil
The Oregon Olive Mill in Dayton, Oregon produces olive oil from Oregon-grown olives.
Lost in the Woods
Oregon’s search and rescue volunteers share their harrowing stories.
U.S. 30: The River’s Road
Highway 30 runs from the industrial parks of west Portland to the beautiful coastal community of Astoria.
Oregon Trip Planner: The Pearl & NW Portland
Shopping, dining and taking it all in takes patience and a flair for the unusual in Portland’s Northwest and The Pearl.
Sno-Parks Four Ways
Behind the ubiquitous and misspelled sno-park signs throughout the state of Oregon lives a network of winter recreational havens.
Baker County: Oregon’s Gold Country
A scan on the radio registers only static down in the canyon where the ghost town of Bridgeport lies.
The Faces of Portland’s Hawthorne Boulevard
1859 photographer Joni Kabana and her students took to the streets to photograph the denizens of Hawthorne Boulevard.
