Standing On Flagstaff Hill => A View of New and Historic Roads To A Nearby Oregon Valley & Town.

….“The map before me says the town of Baker is soon ahead. I see we’re in better agricultural land now. More rain here.
.... What I have in mind now is a catalog of "Gumption Traps I Have Known." I want to start a whole new academic field, gumptionology, in which these traps are sorted, classified, structured into hierarchies and interrelated for the edification of future generations and the benefit of all mankind.
.... Gumptionology 101—An examination of affective, cognitive and psychomotor blocks in the perception of Quality relationships—3 cr,Vll,MWF. I’d like to see that in a college catalog somewhere.
.... In traditional maintenance gumption is considered something you’re born with or have acquired as a result of good upbringing. It’s a fixed commodity. From the lack of information about how one acquires this gumption one might assume that a person without any gumption is a hopeless case.“ (Cont.Next)

Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, Flagstaff Hill, 3 mi East of Baker City, OR. Although the marks of the Historic Oregon Trail can not be seen in this photo, the historic trail came through the lowest area, between the hill (center of photo), and the mountain ridge, seen to the right.
….You May Want To Contrast Road & Trail You See In The /\ Above /\ Photo, With The Location Of Historic Oregon Trail, Shown On Topo Map Marking The Trail =>
…. Right Click And Open In A New Tab. =>
….AFTER Map View Comes Up, You Will See The Above-Mentioned “Flagstaff Hill, and “Mountain Ridge”. Between these, you see in center of the Map, both the ZMM Route (Rt-86 in Red), and here crosses the “ruts” of the Historic Oregon Trail (dotted line).
INSTRUCTIONS: If You Want The Above-Mentioned Topozone Map, For A LARGER AREA, And Be Able To ZOOM-IN =>.
..A) Short Instructions For Using This ONLINE Version of TopoZone Maps, AND Will Avoid An Awful Clutter Of Advertisements.=>
..1) Continuing from the above, where you already see “Both the ZMM Route (Rt-86 in Red), and here crosses the “ruts” of the Historic Oregon Trail (dotted line)”.
..2) Use Scroll Bar At Far Right => Adjust Topo Map Until Upper Left => You SEE-JUST-BELOW The [[ Plus & Minus]] => [[Box]] => Mouse Hover, Then Click Go To “Full Screen” =>
..3) Wait for ~40 seconds the screen will fill
..4) Use Plus & Minus To Zoom. You can “ClickDrag” Map In Any Direction to See More Off Your Screen Edges.
..5) This Topozone Map, is an alternate & good way to know the locations of The Oregon Trail, relative to current day highways, towns, and other geographic features. ..6)..To do 5) above => Just ClickDrag on the map along the Trail. Or course this will be time consuming, but you will see lots of good details, not easily available in other ways.
..7) When done with the Full Screen version of Topozone Map, press “Esc” key upper left of your computer keyboard..
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Since This Topozone Map Does Not Mark The Westward Continuation Of This Oregon Trail, Into The Valley, There Must Have Been Many Different Routes Of Descent.
….A likely route would have been by the O. T. Memorial Marker Monument, which in /\ Above /\ Photo, is in the level light brown bare parking area by highway. From there the ox wagons would have proceeded somewhat to this side of the modern highway, and down the broad hill-slope to the right.

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(Photo = 111-1196 ...... ZMM Page = 274 ...... WayPt = 303w 3980ft. TopoZone = 3945ft)