{"id":1277,"date":"2014-09-12T23:15:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T05:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.grunschev.com\/wordpress\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2017-10-30T14:30:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T20:30:32","slug":"portland-trip-day-2-diversion-blue-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grunschev.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/portland-trip-day-2-diversion-blue-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Trip: Day 2 Diversion – Blue Basin"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 24, 2014<\/h1>\n

From Wikipedia:<\/p>\n

After road-building made the [John Day] valley more accessible, settlers established farms, ranches, and a few small towns along the river and its tributaries. Paleontologists have been unearthing and studying the fossils in the region since 1864, when Thomas Condon, a missionary and amateur geologist, recognized their importance and made them known globally. Parts of the basin became a National Monument in 1975.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Sheep Rock from the parking lot of the Thomas Condon Paleontology Center<\/p><\/div>\n

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Day River valley, looking northwest<\/p><\/div>\n

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Exhibit and “Fossil”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Not quite a 360 degree panorama at the end of the trail<\/p><\/div>\n

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Blue Basin, from Overlook trail<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dried mud<\/p><\/div>\n

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I hiked up the Island in Time Trail, which runs 1.3 miles from the parking lot to a cul-de-sac in the center of the Blue Basin. The canyon walls are a pale blue-green and appear to be quite soft. Getting off the trail is a no-no. There are exhibits and fossil replicas along the way, as well as thirteen metal bridges. In about the only shady spot on the hike, there\u2019s a sign low to the ground pointing to the Blue Basin Overlook Trail, the other end being quite at the trailhead. I went about a half mile up this trail to get a higher angle view of the place.<\/p>\n

This blue layer of earth is exposed throughout the valley. It’s at the base of Sheep Rock, a few miles south of Blue Basin, and you can see it to the north on the other side of the river. But it’s most striking here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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