Mountain Biking - Binns Hill Irrigation Trail - June 20, 2007

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The Binns Hill Irrigation Trail was a easy, flat ride that had some beautiful views of the upper Hood River Valley and Mt. Hood. The Dusty Devas ran into an active clear cutting operation, where they cut the trees right up to the irrigation ditch. It was hard to watch beautiful , large fir trees being cut down and stacked. No selective cutting here. It looks like more trees will be taken out along the trail in the near future. We did find more wildflowers and one moth that was not afraid of us and spread its wings for a closeup photo session. Ride length: 13 miles RT

  • Binns Hill: Mt Hood
  • Binns Hill: Mt Hood
  • Binns Hill: Mt Hood
  • Binns Hill: Vel checking out the camera
  • Binns Hill: Vel's rocket bike
  • Binns Hill
  • Binns Hill: Terri
  • Binns Hill: Lonely pitch fork
  • Binns Hill: Irrigation ditch
  • Binns Hill
  • Binns Hill: Solar panels
  • Binns Hill: Maidenhair Fern
  • Binns Hill: Irrigation ditch
  • Binns Hill
  • Binns Hill: The view of the lower Hood River Valley
  • Binns Hill: Ran into some active clear cutting
  • Binns Hill: Beautiful view
  • Binns Hill: Okay, so we liked the view!
  • Binns Hill: Busy loggers
  • Binns Hill
  • Binns Hill: Chopped down tree stumps
  • Binns Hill
  • Binns Hill: Open irrigation ditch
  • Binns Hill: Example of how loggers tie down their machines
  • Binns Hill: Dismayed bikers over the cut trees
  • Binns Hill
  • Binns Hill: Irrigation thing
  • Binns Hill
  • Binns Hill: Bridge over gurgling creek
  • Binns Hill: Beautiful Columbine
  • Binns Hill: Beautiful Columbine, again
  • Binns Hill: Beautiful Columbine, once more...
  • Binns Hill: Creek - a little fuzzy
  • Binns Hill: Beautiful weed
  • Binns Hill: Beautiful weed
  • Binns Hill: A beautiful moth, not a butterfly...
  • Binns Hill
  • Binns Hill
  • Binns Hill
  • Binns Hill: More Columbine...
  • Binns Hill
  • Binns Hill
  • Binns Hill: Daisys
  • Binns Hill: Daisys
  • Binns Hill: Daisys
  • Binns Hill: Girls waiting for photographer...
  • Binns Hill: Vel Terri, Betsy
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