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Sahalie, Koosah, and Tamolitch Blue Pool! Brilliant hikes up on the upper McKenzie River.

Upper Table Rock near Medford, OR. Great wildflower hike and a good climb too! (Some pictures courtesy @nakaela.bsky.social)

Mt Baldy last Sunday ❤️

Portland OR Hands Off Rally

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING
#handsoff

This week was a long week! Between student finals and racing through Emergency Response GIS work on flooding and road closures.. whew! Glad to breathe and get to the weekend.

I think the answer is clear. That said, not every one of us should be armed in that fashion, because not everyone of us are able to work within that space from a mental health perspective.

Yakso Falls!

Top of Clover Falls (1.5 miles in!)

Yakso and Clover Falls. The big delightful surprise was that we hiked into snow! (3400 feet!). Had a blast ☺️❤️

Is… is this Steven universe (sorta?)

Hardesty Mountain up near Eugene! With @nakaela.bsky.social

I’m so sorry-hope you can find ways to keep her pain down! ❤️

Distribute at the Pride parade or festival?

This is somehow even sadder with your current avatar 😭

Maybe should! Can’t really predict what’ll happen at this point. At least yours should come in a month or so at this point. Happy I got mine early January.

Nice! I love it ❤️

Yay indeed!

Fuck yes.

Leaving Facebook has been a great mental health break. I do still feel like I left my community behind in it, but I know that can’t be at the cost of my own Well being. Maybe I’ll come back one day, but for now I’m content stepping away and saving spoons. Wanted to share ❤️

Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."

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A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

Pretty close, except no notification of the firecaine because NOAA has been dismantled into a thousand pieces.

Row River trail in Cottage Grove, OR. First time this far along the trail. 11 miles! A bit of rain, snow, and sun along the way :)

Why not? Maybe it was your sister 🤣❤️

John Dellenback Dunes! Not the most ideal hike as I was plugging along with a cold, but did 5.5 miles. Beautiful place!

Escaped to the woods to get away temporarily from the Monday of it all. Salt Creek Falls!

A reminder Monday that there will be an avalanche of executive orders.

Mass deportations will start.

Meanwhile, the House and Senate will try to ram through a bunch of bad bills.

Do not get lost in a sea of despair.

That is what they want.

Prepare yourselves now.

Saaaame :(

Last weekends excursion out at Shore Acres and king tides.

That’s one of the toughest parts about dropping fb. Too much of this county runs off of it. Reddit is nice, but it still doesn’t compare.