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August marks the beginning of peak fire season in California and the Pacific Northwest.
While wild fires can happen any time of the year, the peak of the wildfire season usually occurs between August and November when hot, dry winds are most frequent.
Wildfires are most prevalent in summer. In the early 1950s, wildfire season was typically five months long. As time has gone on and climate change has intensified, our current wildfire season has grown to seven months.
Although wildfires may have a beneficial impact on ecological resources, wildfires also may have a devastating impact, especially for those communities affected by wildfire activity.
The fire pictured is a wild fire from Summer 2019 - located west of Insterstate 5 near Medford, Oregon.
When was the last time you watched a sunset? ☀️
Ever wondered why they turn red?
The colors of the sunset result from a phenomenon called “scattering.”
Scattering affects the color of light coming from the sky, but the details are determined by the wavelength of the light and the size of the particle.
The short-wavelength blue and violet are scattered by molecules in the air much more than other colors of the spectrum.
When the sun is low on the horizon, sunlight passes through more air at sunset and sunrise than during the day.
More atmosphere means more molecules to scatter the violet and blue light away from your eyes. If the path is long enough, all of the blue and violet light scatters out of your line of sight.
The other colors continue on their way to your eyes. This is why sunsets are often yellow, orange, and red.
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Our down blankets are:
✅ Water Resistant
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Pop Quiz: What is the name of the moon phase shown above?
Answer: A Waxing Crescent! 🌒
The waxing crescent phase is the moon's first step toward fullness. However, the moon is considered a crescent only when less than one half of it is visible.
Once the more than half of the moon is visible, it’s then called a “Waxing Gibbous.” 🌔
Battery Point Light was one of the first lighthouses on the California coast.
Rugged mountains and unbridged rivers meant coastal travel was essential for the economic survival of this region.
The fourth-order Fresnel lens was lit in 1856 and ran until 1953 when it was automated.
The 1964 Alaska earthquake, the strongest earthquake ever recorded in the northern hemisphere, caused a tsunami, the lighthouse survived.
In 1982, the light in the lighthouse tower was lit again and remains functional to this day.
[Source: Wikipedia.com]
What does it look like when you take your #trekblanket on an adventure?
Do you use it while camping? laying in a hammock? a day at the beach?
Let us know!
Snap a photo and tag @horizon_hound
📸 by @bam_bam2375
Happy Sunday 🌞
Sound ON and take a DEEP breath. ✨
Ever seen one of these?
They are called Survey Markers! 📍
Sometimes also called survey marks, survey monuments, survey benchmarks or geodetic marks - they are objects placed to mark key survey points on the Earth's surface.
While something similar to the picture is what you’re most likely to run into today,
all sorts of different objects, ranging from the familiar brass disks to liquor bottles, clay pots, and rock cairns, have been used over the years as survey markers.
The most common geodetic survey marks are cast metal disks with stamped legends on their face set in rock ledges, embedded in the tops of concrete pillars, or affixed to the tops of pipes that have been sunk into the ground.
While it might seem tempting, these marks are intended to be permanent, and disturbing them is generally prohibited by federal and state law (and for the enjoyment of others!)
[Source: mountainmonkeycompany.com]
TFW you and your humans just did 15 miles of hiking in Colorado and they bring you YOUR OWN personal #TrekBlanket to snuggle up in...
But they are also cooking something tasty on the fire 👀
Everyone say Hi to Stella 🐾
📸: @mikehawkins
Who am I?
The Western Swordfern.
It’s an evergreen fern native to western North America, where it is one of the most abundant ferns.
It occurs along the Pacific coast from southeastern Alaska to southern California.
The preferred habitat of this fern is the understory of moist coniferous woodlands at low elevations.
It grows best in well-drained acidic soil of rich humus and small stones.
It is very resilient and survives occasional droughts, but flourishes only with consistent moisture and light sunlight, and it prefers cool weather.
[Source: Wikipedia.com]
Hi! I’m a Crayfish!
Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters.
In some parts of the United States they are also known as crawfish, craydids, crawdaddies, crawdads, freshwater lobsters, mountain lobsters, mudbugs, or yabbies.
Crayfish can be found in many parts of the world, including North and South America, Australia, and Europe.
These distinctive invertebrates typically have two pincers (chelae) and a flat, fan-shaped tail used for swimming at the bottoms of lakes, streams, rivers, and wetlands.
Among the approximately 500 different species of crayfish in the world, a handful of them have been introduced to the west coast.
Source: Wikipedia.com
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Orange 🍊 you glad it’s finally summer?
So are we. So stoked in fact that we are introducing a brand new color
🧡 Burnt Orange.
A perfect gift for the #hiker #camper #beachbum or someone who just really likes orange in your life!
Keep an eye out for our release next week
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The most important thing that bees do is pollinate. Pollination is needed for plants to reproduce, and so many plants depend on bees or other insects as pollinators.
When a bee collects nectar and pollen from the flower of a plant, some pollen from the stamens—the male reproductive organ of the flower—sticks to the hairs of her body.
When she visits the next flower, some of this pollen is rubbed off onto the stigma, or tip of the pistil—the female reproductive organ of the flower. When this happens, fertilization is possible, and a fruit, carrying seeds, can develop.
So when you see a 🐝, let it buzz!
[Source: ingenuimcanada.org]
We are nearing the end of wildflower season in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.
The wildflower season is best April through early June.
In April, beautiful purple camas and pond lilies in the low wetland areas of the Willamette Valley start budding.
Some of the flowers you might see include coast fawn lilies, cut-leaved goldthread, flowering currant, Hartwig's wildginger, Indian plum, Oregon grape, Oregon fawn lilies, Oregon fetid adder's tongue, Oregon selaginella, Marshall's saxifrage, saucer bishops cap, spring gold, trillium, violets, western wood anemone and many more.
[Source: eugenecascadecoast.com]
Have you ever been to Mars?
Well, neither have we 😬
However, we HAVE been to the John Day Fossil Beds and it feels like another planet, but it’s right here on earth - in the heart of Oregon.
The hills formed when two distinct periods of volcanic activity, during the past 40 million years, deposited layers of iron oxides, ash, silicates and other minerals.
Over the eons, weathering has brought out the colors and smoothed the hillsides.
[Source: epod.usra.edu]
Happy Pride Month 🌈
☀️Happy Summer Solstice☀️
The Summer Solstice, or as many call it “Midsummer,” is the period of time centered upon the summer solstice.
More specifically the northern European celebrations that accompany the actual solstice or take place on a day between June 19 and June 25 and the preceding evening. The exact dates vary among different cultures.
The celebration predates Christianity, and existed under different names and traditions around the world.
[Source: Wikipedia.com]
Snow?! But it's almost July!
Fun Fact: You're looking at a "snowcap" on top of Mount Mazama or Crater Lake, part of the Cascades Mountain Range in Southern Oregon.
However, not all mountains have snowcaps, and not all mountains that get snow have snowcaps all year.
Many mountains, though, have snowcaps year-round. Above a certain point — called the snow line — it stays cold enough that the snow never melts.
Although mountaintops are closer to the Sun, they're also farther away from the thermal heat of the Earth's core that keeps the ground warm. So the top of the mountain can be much colder than the bottom.
Cooler temperatures at the top of a mountain also mean that there's less evaporation taking place.
Side Walk Chalk : 🤓 Educational Edition
“Origin of a Tsunami
A Landslide Underwater”
No Leaders Please
invent yourself and then reinvent yourself,
don’t swim in the same slough.
invent yourself and then reinvent yourself
and
stay out of the clutches of mediocrity.
invent yourself and then reinvent yourself,
change your tone and shape so often that they can
never
categorize you.
reinvigorate yourself and
accept what is
but only on the terms that you have invented
and reinvented.
be self-taught.
and reinvent your life because you must;
it is your life and
its history
and the present
belong only to
you.
Charles Bukowski
