Category: deschutes river
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Alder Springs- Lower Wychus Hike
A short Spring hike into a grassland canyon to Alder Springs, a lush desert oasis.
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Aspen Wildlife Sanctuary: Walking The Sunriver Labyrinth
My Family and I have been monitoring a little tree through our kitchen window. We watched it sprout neon lime buds in April and develop into a verduous green by July. As school began the leaves slowly paled into a golden yellow. This Saturday we fried breakfast and remarked on the leaves latest shade, crimson. This morning every […]
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Benham Falls
6,600 years ago hot molten lava spewed from the side of Lava Butte, damming the Deschutes River and creating Benham Lake. The lake would overflow at a low point on a saddle, this channel eventually formed Benham Falls. The Deschutes travels on North towards Bend down two more clusters of rapids (Dillon and Lava Island Falls). […]
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Brown’s Crossing
Brown’s Crossing, 24 miles south of Sunriver, is one of my favorite spots to observe a plethora of local wildlife. This 2- square mile habitat is a lush home to a variety of waterfowl and birds of prey, hummingbirds, beavers, deer, and bats. In early Spring I visited and found several deer carcasses from the […]
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Little Lava Lake & Deschutes River
Little Lava Lake is by far my favorite childhood lake. I have memories of hiking a primitive lake loop to a volcanic rock cropping, where we caught our limit of rainbow trout. Little Lava is fed by a subsurface spring that sources the Deschutes River. The lake covers 138 acres and has an average depth of […]
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