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Welcome to the Thayer Website!
Jim, Cynthia, Max and Jamie Thayer live in Portland’s “West Hills”, overlooking the Tualatin Valley. Jamie, our youngest son, is a high school student at Catlin Gable school. Maximilian attends Earlham College in Indiana. Allen recently moved to the Bay area, and Charlie lives in SE Portland.
I’ve recently overhauled this site so you will find new backdrops, and I’ve added in some of the best of my travel photographs from all over the world. My philosophy about photos is that if you need an explanation about the content of a picture, then you haven’t presented an image that’s sufficiently creative and insightful to be attractive based purely upon its intrinsic visual impact. So, don’t expect much enlightenment from the sparse titles. Go ahead and peruse the varied portraits and special views to appreciate the great variety and hidden beauty this world presents.
This site also serves as the gateway to a sub-site that contains the basic information about twenty trails that were incorporated into my forthcoming (April 15, 2008) book “Portland Forest Hikes” published by Portland’s own Timber Press. For a complete description of these trails, with more detailed maps please purchase “Portland Forest Hikes” in any local bookstore.
This sub-site also serves as the working platform for the next 20 trails I am surveying that will reach from Scappoose via Vernonia all the way past the Nehalem River on US 26. Eventually, I plan to survey and record a network of publicly accessible logging roads and trails that will connect from Forest Park all the way to Seaside and Tillamook. One route will run north of US 26 , and the other will follow the peaks in the Salmonberry wilderness above the Wilson River eventually reaching the coast at Nehalem Bay, just north of Tillamook.
The trail descriptions will be augmented with photos, old documents and pictures as well as my GPS maps and plenty of historical background on the regions and communities along the way. I’ll also add in the flora and fauna aspects and show how you can enjoy these hikes from various points along US 26 highway and Oregon’s highway 6. Eventually, I will also try to add in a facility for downloading the GPS data for each of the hikes in the universally usable “.gpx” format.
Enjoy and if you have questions give us a call at (503) 220-0755, or drop me an email at jim@thayers.org.
Jim Thayer
The background was painted by the French impressionist painter Constant Troyon in 1854 and is called, “Garde-chasse arrêté près de ses chiens” (The game keeper stops near his dogs). It hangs in the Musee d’Orsay in Paris.
The materials on this websight have been copy-righted, and may not be reproduced without express permission by the author and web master, James D. Thayer. 2004
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