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Chad
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Photographer, videographer, nature enthusiast, and creator of @ridgelinemag.bsky.social, an outdoor recreation magazine for the Southern Willamette Valley of Oregon.
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The Future of Skiing at Mt. Bachelor: Grassroots vs. Corporations radnut.com/mt-bachelor-...
#skiing #snowboard #ski #skifeed #freeride #oregon #cascades #mtb #mountainbike
The Fight for Mt. Bachelor: Skiing, Community, and Ownership
How locals are battling corporate giants for Mt. Bachelor, one of Oregon's iconic ski areas, to preserve its legacy for future generations.
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January 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Today I opened “A Sand County Almanac,” the quintessential #ecology book by Aldo Leopold, for the first time. The foreword from 1948 felt eerily relevant, and I wanted to share.

Like they say, history doesn’t repeat but it sometimes rhymes. Stay safe out there folks, keep moving forward.
The cover of “A sand county almanac.” Text on a page from the foreword of the book “A sand county almanac.” Foreword THERE are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot. Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech. These wild things, I admit, had little human value until mechanization assured us of a good breakfast, and until science disclosed the drama of where they come from and how they live. The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not. • One must make shift with things as they are. These essays are my shifts. They are grouped in three parts. Part i tells what my family sees and does at its weekend Text on a page from the foreword of the book “A sand county almanac.” FOREWORD refuge from too much modernity: the shack? On this sand farm in Wisconsin, first worn out and then abandoned by our bigger-and-better society, we try to rebuild, with shovel and axe, what we are losing elsewhere. It is here that we seek-and still find-our meat from God. These shack sketches are arranged seasonally as a "Sand. County Almanac.' Part I, 'Sketches Here and There, recounts some of the episodes in my life that taught me, gradually and sometimes painfully, that the company is out of step. These episodes, scattered over the continent and through forty years of time, present a fair sample of the issues that bear the collective label: conservation. Part In, 'The Upshot,' sets forth, in more logical terms, some of the ideas whereby we dissenters rationalize our dissent. Only the very sympathetic reader will wish to wrestle with the philosophical questions of Part m. I suppose it may be said that these essays tell the company how it may get back in step. Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the esthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture. That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension [ viii ] of ethics. That land yields a cultural harvest is a fact long known, but latterly often forgotten. These essays attempt to weld these three concepts. Such a view of land and people is, of course, subject to the blurs and distortions of personal experience and personal bias. But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypo-chondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. The whole world is so greedy for more bathtubs that it has lost the stability necessary to build them, or even to turn off the tap. Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings. Perhaps such a shift of values can be achieved by reappraising things unnatural, tame, and confined in terms of things natural, wild, and free. ALDO LEOPOLD Madison, Wisconsin 4 March 1948
January 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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The future of Oakridge, #Oregon, hangs in the balance as the community battles a handful of investors trying to build a rock quarry on TV Butte, the iconic backdrop of downtown Oakridge. Learn about the fight to preserve this natural space and what you can do to help below.
#pnw #conservation
Saving Oakridge: A possible paradise lost in Oregon by Save TV Butte — Ridgeline Magazine
A shadow has been passing over the face of the Oakridge/Westfir boom, threatening the communities’ hard-won economic and environmental stability.
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January 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Winter waterfalls in the Umpqua National Forest 🌲

#oregon #pnw #PacificNorthwest #nature #getoutside
A waterfall framed between two trees.
January 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Deep down I’ll always be a ski bum looking through photos from my last ski trip while I wait on the next one to begin ⛷️

#winter #skiing #oregon #nature #PNW #pacificnorthwest
Snowy trees at Willamette Pass Ski Area.
January 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Waiting for dry rock 🧗 happy #friday, folks

#climbing #rockclimbing #getoutside
A climbing wall at a climbing gym
January 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Folks seemed to like the last #wildlife photo I posted so here’s another! Taken during a mountain goat population survey in the Bridger Range, #Montana.
A male mountain goat grazes in a subalpine meadow in Montana.
January 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Are you in or around Eugene, #Oregon? Looking for something new to do this #winter? Take a look at our winter activity recommendations inside of Ridgeline Magazine!

#PNW #PacificNorthwest
ridgelinemag.bsky.social Ridgeline Magazine @ridgelinemag.bsky.social · Jan 8
Whether you prefer the outdoors or the comfort of the thermostat, there’s always something to do around Eugene during the winter ❄️ Grab your coat and check out our seasonal to-dos: www.ridgelinemagazine.com/community/wi...

Photo courtesy of Cascades Raptor Center 🦅

#Oregon #PNW
An owl flies across the crowd during a flight show at Cascades Raptor Center in Eugene, Oregon.
January 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Thinking about all the bison I left in #Montana on this winter day. I don’t miss living in the cold, but I really miss the wildlife in Yellowstone National Park.

#wildlife #bison #YellowstoneNationalPark #wildlifephotography
Three bison run across a bridge towards the photographer during winter inside Yellowstone National Park.
January 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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A fashionably late 2024 photo recap, part two

#hiking #mountaineering #oregon #california #pacificnorthwest #PNW
A person looks up at the light inside a burned out redwood tree Hikers make their way towards the summit block of Mt. Washington in Oregon A photo of Mt. Thielsen in Oregon. The road is seen in the bottom of the photo. A rock climber looks out at the view. Photo Credit: Jeremy Parker
January 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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A fashionably late 2024 photo recap, part one

#skiing #oregon #PNW #pacificocean #california
A skier posing for a photo with their skis Two men look at a solar eclipse A man standing on the stump of a coastal redwood A hill extends out into the Pacific Ocean
January 3, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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From a single rough draft to reality, 2024 was the year Ridgeline came to life! There are many more stories to tell in the coming years from fine folks like you all, so here’s to 2025 🍻 See you outside!

#oregon #PNW #PacificNorthwest #outdoors #magazine
The cover shot of a draft of Ridgeline magazine laying in the grass. The cover of Ridgeline Magazine. Two people holding copies of Ridgeline Magazine at Tactics Board Shop in Eugene, Oregon. Two skiers. The one on the left points at the camera and the other throws up two peace signs.
December 31, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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People can debate what Jimmy Carter's political legacy was. But his human legacy was an astoundingly positive one, worthy of deep admiration.
December 29, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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Soggy trails and sunshine ☀️

#oregon #pnw #hiking #winter #pacificnorthwest #nature #getoutside
Sun shines through trees on a wet hiking trail
December 23, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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Another season begins with a hike up Mt. Pisgah. Happy solstice, everyone 🌞🌝❄️

#hiking #winter #solstice #nature #oregon #PNW #pacificnorthwest
A bench on top of Mount Pisgah. In the distance, mountains and fog.
December 21, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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Happy winter solstice, folks! Before you know it, the sun will still be in the sky after 5 pm and we'll be skiing corn snow, so try and enjoy the end of this year's trip around the sun for what it's worth.

#winter #solstice #skiing #snow #PNW #getoutside
The sun peeks through the clouds while snow covers the ground.
December 21, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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Go follow Ridgeline Magazine and help spread the word about the new home for outdoor recreation in the Southern Willamette Valley of #Oregon!

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#outdoorrecreation #PNW #winter #nature #getoutside
ridgelinemag.bsky.social Ridgeline Magazine @ridgelinemag.bsky.social · Dec 21
Welcome to the Southern Willamette Valley’s Outdoor Magazine. Welcome to Ridgeline.

We are a call to action for the outdoor communities of the Southern Willamette Valley in #Oregon. Always free, you can read the first issue at RidgelineMagazine.com

#outdoors #skiing #nature #magazine
December 21, 2024 at 6:22 AM
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Welcome to the Southern Willamette Valley’s Outdoor Magazine. Welcome to Ridgeline.

We are a call to action for the outdoor communities of the Southern Willamette Valley in #Oregon. Always free, you can read the first issue at RidgelineMagazine.com

#outdoors #skiing #nature #magazine
December 21, 2024 at 6:08 AM
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Over a year in the making, we printed 1500 copies of our first issue of Ridgeline last month. Free for readers online and off! See where you can pick up a copy in #Oregon, or flip through the digital version: ridgelinemagazine.com

#winter #nature #skiing #PNW #outdoorrecreation #magazine
The cover of the winter issue of Ridgeline Magazine, featuring a skier.
December 21, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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Coming back after a 9 month hiatus and millions of new users… is this thing on? 🎙️
A guy giving a thumbs up
December 21, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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What. A. Day. Our local ski area received over 3 feet of snow this week and 7” fell in the morning before we arrived. Stoke was high and the snow was DEEP. These are some of the images I managed to catch between powder day laps (plus a nice iPhone photo of me ⛷️).
March 3, 2024 at 4:15 AM
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You don’t stop skiing knee-deep powder to set up photos, at least not when your camera dies in your backpack 🥲 Here are few we took while we caught our breath between untracked runs through the trees 🌲Absolutely the best storm day I’ve had in years!
A man skiing. A mountain and trees covered in snow. A woman poses for a photo on the ski hill. A ski lift going up a mountain.
February 20, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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Views 🌲🌊🦀
A man standing in front of the roots of a fallen tree. A sign for the Cummins Wilderness. A woman’s hand holding a small crab. A tree with an exposed piece of its inner layer.
February 14, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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"The wrong Amazon is burning"
Sticker spotted in Anchorage, Alaska
Priority main sticker that says "The wrong Amazon is burning"
February 9, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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Winter Waves 🌊
February 10, 2024 at 6:18 AM