Well folks is is 2011 and we are officially back and working hard, and it is time we start living up to our new years resolution of taking better care of our planet.
We have some exciting new projects, projects that you can be a part of. I have been doing some research on a cool park that I discovered within the Portland city limits, Rocky Butte. Rocky Butte caught my attention the first time I went there to do some rock climbing. It struck me as being under used, under appreciated, and completely trashed, with amazing potential for an abundance of outdoor recreation activities.
I will be organizing a trash clean up for Rocky Butte, hopefully for the last weekend in February. I will have an exact date after I contact the city to see what kinds of resources they can provide. This will be the first of several service projects to help to make this awesome area live up to its potential. There is the possibility that in the future we may be able to connect the trails in this area to the Gateway Green Project.
To RSVP or for more info please contact jay@stopcycles.com.
Rocky Butte Stats:
Also known as Wiberg Butte, 612 feet (187meters), 1.3 million years old.
Rocky Butte is the only volcano in Portland with an abundance of exposed rock, due to being directly in line with the great ice age Missoula floods flowing through the Columbia Gorge scouring all of the soil from the East face.
Much of the rock quarried from Rocky Butte was used for WPA projects of the 1930s, including the building of the Colombia River Highway..
Rocky Butte is a State Park although on the Oregon State Parks website Tryon Creek is listed as Oregon's only state park in a metro area.
Rocky Butte was home to a jail, a train station, and a military school, at different times in history.
Supposedly there are five caves on Rocky Butte (I could only find two, both require ropes to get into.)
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