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Now, earlier, a couple of missives back, I mentioned entering Troutdale from the south. This involves coming in on South Troutdale Road, which jogs to become the non-directional Buxton Road at its signal at SW Cherry Park Road, at approximately the 1200 block.
It then goes down a really nifty hill. You get a good view: the Columbia River bottomland and a vista of Washington, across the river, spreads out before you.
The Girl gasped at this ... she loves expansive views, and started chirping "Picture! Picture!". And when you're right, you're right. So.
That grove of trees in the middle distance are just beyond the airport and obscure the Columbia River itself. The green hills beyond are all Washington, though, a land foreignish, but not foreign (we are all Cascadian). The green topped buildings just beyond those at the foot of the hill are the factory outlet stores, quite a draw.
At a time in the past the area beyond the trees would have also had a bustling and power-thirsty aluminum plant, and if you had anything aluminum, from pots to foil, during the 1950s through 1980s, there was a good chance that the aluminum it had came from there; one of the many benefits of cheap hydro power that we Oregonians still, to a degree, take for granted.
It then goes down a really nifty hill. You get a good view: the Columbia River bottomland and a vista of Washington, across the river, spreads out before you.
The Girl gasped at this ... she loves expansive views, and started chirping "Picture! Picture!". And when you're right, you're right. So.
That grove of trees in the middle distance are just beyond the airport and obscure the Columbia River itself. The green hills beyond are all Washington, though, a land foreignish, but not foreign (we are all Cascadian). The green topped buildings just beyond those at the foot of the hill are the factory outlet stores, quite a draw.
At a time in the past the area beyond the trees would have also had a bustling and power-thirsty aluminum plant, and if you had anything aluminum, from pots to foil, during the 1950s through 1980s, there was a good chance that the aluminum it had came from there; one of the many benefits of cheap hydro power that we Oregonians still, to a degree, take for granted.
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