Cooling off with a Mountain Fever, Timberline Lodge , Mount Hood

Cooling off with a Mountain Fever, Timberline Lodge , Mount Hood


Mountain Fever, Timberline Lodge , Mount Hood

Road Tripping

Okay the sun was out in the middle of a gloomy week and the prediction was for more mentally paralyzing fog to sweep in. What better way to break the doldrums and head up above the clouds.
Leaving suburbia behind to see how the outliers are surviving on the edges of civilization is always an experience. The true star is of course nature with its brut power that sticks its fist right into your burning retina.

Trees kept fading in and out of cloud banks that hadn't gotten the notice yet to buzz off. The air seemed to be sweeter as if all the monoxide had given it a bitter note.
after an intense climb along winding pre-sanded road the sky opened up with unprecedented vistas. Snow banks melted furiously cascading down cliffs as if to escape the approaching winter. The lodge was almost deserted a group of snow boarders had just finished a meeting in one of the old halls and played a game of relaxed table tennis. Time had lost the race up here.
This could have been the 1960 ties. Just the $17.50 all you can eat buffet looked very contemporary with its hyped cup cake display and organic vegetable platter.
The mountain looked pristine through the huge picture window as if so embody with a giant broom had swept it clean of people.

photography by Richard Schemmerer

Alberta Street Fair 2015 by URBAN Trecker

Alberta Street Fair 2015 by URBAN Trecker





Alberta Street Mural detail

photography by

Richard Schemmerer



Alberta Street has become the go to district if you want to get a feel what it is like to live in within an artsy community. Every month there is a big art shindig for everyone to participate in and once a year its tamer sister the street fair brings out families to join in the fun and inspire future artists and creative to try their hand the arts.

Of course this doesn't work without sponsorship and their is a bounty of commercial and corporate booths set up as well. Nevertheless it is a good feel event and hopefully other cities can adapted some of these successful strategies of co-habitation and gentrification.

special thanks to URBAN Art Network and awnings by Waagmeester who let artists set up in their parking lot

URBAN Trecker presents Vancouver WA, Cruising the Gut

URBAN Trecker presents Vancouver WA, Cruising the Gut





"The face of fierceness"

photography
by Richard Schemmerer




Vancouver WA put on a great show letting the engines roar to a collective sigh as muscle cars competed with the low-fy restored family wagon next to the oldest cars ever build. The fumes where thick and so was the smoke from the hot vapor.