(Click for more.) Along the way to Peninsula Park I saw this mural again, without cars in the way of the view, on N. Williams Ave.

August 28, we again left from Peninsula Park, this time with a large contingent and headed west to Mocks Crest, circling around to the south and our java stop was at the nice place on Killingsworth at Albina.

Next Sunday is the day before Labor Day. Let's all take a break. Ralph and I will make a decision for Sept. 11 based upon suggestions that come in to us before then.

Some art decorating the corner at Ainsworth and Interstate

Now just what is this?

As it turns out it is a pedal powered bar on its way to Burning Man.

Well, you could'a fooled us.

Oh, OK, chain-grinding maniacs consume their way across the desert! Mad Max returns stoned.

Madrona tree trunk at Mocks Crest

The rest of the tree. A resident of the area, Madrona Park, says at one time this kind of tree dominated the cliffs and area around Mocks Crest.

We were able to get views of the industrial sprawl in Mocks Bottom.  This old Portland Public Docks aerial and this topo map show how little space was used for industry in 1960.

Toward the end of our walk fire trucks zoomed in on a smoke coming out of a house at Blandena and Minnesota

In 1955 I had an Oregonian morning paper route. One of the stops was at the Falcon Apartments.

Cliff talks a bike race volunteer into giving him 4 bottles of water...

...to quench our thirst.

Under the Glenn Jackson bridge the headroom became less and less.