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September 11 we met at 15th and Fremont and found our way to some steps leading to Alameda Ridge.  Another set of steps took us down to Grant park and the swimming pool, whence we wended back to the point of origin.

September 18 we will meet on the east side of the river at the Fireboat Station near SE Water and Taylor.

Nutrition hint. Calories are not just calories. A 2000 calorie a day diet high in fat content will cause you to gain weight because fat sends a signal to your brain requesting blood, more blood vessels and more flesh. Fatty foods make you hunger for more. On the other hand a 2000 calorie a day diet consisting of mostly fresh veggies, fruits, nuts and low fat protein will not trigger as strong an order to the brain to increase flesh production.

Another note, a bit gruesome to consider is that fat does not just accrue below the skin's surface. It also grows around each organ and inside the body cavity.  When you are ten pounds overweight you are carrying the equivalent of 10 one pound bars of butter under your skin and around your vital organs.

You can walk from here to the Moon but unless you reduce fatty food consumption you will still put on weight. This includes reducing calories from any "food" that comes in a can, a package, on at a restaurant.

Some art decorating the corner at Ainsworth and Interstate

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.