A Satellite View Showing => The Most Likely ZMM Route In Oregon, From The Eastern Edge of Klamath Lake, To Grants Pass, Oregon, Showing The Towns & Travel Roads.
…NOTE: At Left Is List, Supplied By The User, To Easily and Nicely Create This Travel Route On This Google Satellite View.
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From "> Robert Pirsig’s book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, Click Here.… Please Find Below, Mr, Pirsig’s Excerpt Description Of What He Saw (And Thought About), Along His Route of Travel, Some 30 Miles After Klamath Lake, Oregon (Note underlined, and especially “Exquisite Valley”.) =>
…“The mythos is a building of analogues upon analogues upon analogues. These fill the collective consciousness of all communicating mankind. Every last bit of it. The Quality is the track that directs the train. What is outside the train, to either side—that is the terra incognita of the insane. He knew that to understand Quality he would have to leave the mythos. That’s why he felt that slippage. He knew something was about to happen.”
…I see Chris returning through the trees now. He looks relaxed and happy. He shows me a piece of bark and asks if he can save it as a souvenir. I haven’t been fond of loading the cycle with these bits and pieces he finds and will probably throw away when he gets home, but this time say okay anyway.
After a few minutes the road reaches a summit and then drops steeply into a valley that becomes more exquisite as we descend. I never thought I would call a valley that—exquisite—but there’s something about this whole coastal country so different from any other mountainous region in America that it brings out the word. Here, a little farther south, is where all our good wine comes from. The hills are somehow tucked and folded differently—exquisitely. The road twists and banks and curlecues and descends and we and the cycle smoothly roll with it, following it in a separate grace of our own, almost touching the waxen leaves of shrubs and overhanging boughs of trees. The firs and rocks of the higher country are behind us now and around us are soft hills and vines and purple and red flowers, fragrance mixed with woodsmoke up from the distant fog along the valley floor and from beyond that, unseen—a vague scent of ocean. . . .
…..How can I love all this so much and be insane?” . . .
…..I don’t believe it!”
The mythos. The mythos is insane. That’s what he believed. The mythos that says the forms of this world are real but the Quality of this world is unreal, that is insane!”
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ZMM Enthusiast Lee Glover’s Video Showing Robert Pirsig's Likely Route of Travel from Klamath Lake, Oregon, through to Grants Pass, Oregon. Click Here.
…You Will See Views, About Which The ZMM Narrator Says “Exquisite Valley” As Described In His Book “Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”.
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In This Photo Album Continued => The Following Series Of 23 Google Street Views, Shows What Is Seen Along The Route Of Travel, Shown In The ABOVE Satellite View.
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Scenery Along the Green Springs Highway OR-66. A Nice Valley View.
ZMM Page ~315
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Scenery Along the Green Springs Highway OR-66. A Nice Wide Valley With Farmstead, Horses, And Irrigation Ditch.
…This Area Here, Is Flat & Wide, Because It’s The Klamath River Valley, For The Next 4 Photos. After That, This Highway Goes Higher Into Low Mountain Scenery.
ZMM Page ~315
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Scenery Along the Green Springs Highway OR-66. Bailed Hay Shows A Productive Farmstead.
…Excess Irrigation Water In Ditch Makes Luxurious Tall Grass!
…Can See Mountains In The Distance.
ZMM Page ~315
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Scenery Along the Green Springs Highway OR-66. Bailed Hay Shows Several Productive Farmsteads,
…Which Have Many A Hay Bail, Spread Out For The Next 2 Miles!!.
ZMM Page ~315
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Scenery Along the Green Springs Highway OR-66. The Road Has Come Up Into The Low Mountains, At ~3600 feet Elevation.
…Due To Dry Climate, For Mile After Mile, Google Street View Shows That => The Trees Are Sparse, With Lots Of Large Hot Sunny Open Areas.
…But Finally Was Able Find This Pull Off Shady Place, With A Big Tree.
…And Here Take A Photo, To Illustrate => The ZMM Narrator’s Tree To Lean Back Against, and Deep Shady Woods, While Chris Walks Among The Douglas Fir Trees.
The ZMM Narrator Says =>
…“The road goes up now into the forests of huge trees not at all like the rain-starved forests we’ve been through. Huge Douglas firs are on either side of the road. On the cycle we can look up along their trunks, straight up, for hundreds of feet as we pass between them. Chris wants to stop and walk among them and so we stop.
…While he goes for a walk I lean my back as carefully as possible against a big slab of Douglas fir bark and look up and try to remember. “
NOTE1: The ZMM Narrator tells us => “Huge Douglas firs are on either side of the road. On the cycle we can look up along their trunks, straight up, for hundreds of feet as we pass between them” However, using Google Street View and looking closely along Rt-66, in the mountainous areas, no trees this huge were seen. Some of the largest are seen in the above Google Street View, and the next.
NOTE2: What the ZMM Narrator tells us => IS ACTUALLY SEEN about 50 miles North of here, along the higher elevation parts of Rt-140, some eleven miles West of Upper Klamath Lake, OR. This road runs close to the North Fork Little Butte Creek, the moisture of which may help the trees here grow much taller. You May See Several Of Henry Gurr’s 2002 Photos Of Huge Douglas Fir Trees Along Rt-140. AFTER This Comes Up, Please Scroll Down To, And Read, At the 10th, 11th, & 12th Small Photos. Click Here.
NOTE3: You May Go To The Above Google Street View, And Conduct Your OWN ClickDrag Exploration Of The Road Thru The Sparse Forest. (Plus Zoom In For More Detail). Click Here.
ZMM Page 315
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Scenery Along the Green Springs Highway OR-66. The Road Has Gone Higher Up Into The Low Mountains, At ~4500 feet Elevation.
…Further Along This Highway, Able To Find An Alternate, Second Pull Off Shady Place, With A Big Tree For The ZMM Narrator To Lean Back Against, AND A Deep Shady Woods For Chris To Walk, Among The Tall Douglas Fir Trees.
ZMM Page 315
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Scenery Along the Green Springs Highway OR-66. The Road Goes By The Long, Narrow Lake Of Keene Creek Reservoir.
ZMM Page ~315
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Scenery Along the Green Springs Highway OR-66. A Second View Of The Long, Narrow Lake Of Keene Creek Reservoir.
ZMM Page ~315
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Scenery Along The Green Springs Highway OR-66. The Road Continues Its Steeper Descent Down To Schoolhouse Creek Valley, Which You See At Left.
…Here, Schoolhouse Creek Flows With A Gradual Slope, Into Emigrant Creek, And Then Into Emigrant Lake, Which You See In The Distance.
…It Is Likely That The Green Springs Highway, Gets Its Name From Green Springs Mountain, Which Is Some 50 Miles To The North.
…And Why Green? Since Most Springs Are Surrounded By Green Vegetation, That Is Unlikely Name Source. More Likely, It Is Copper Salts Green, From Its Water Flowing Thru Copper Deposits.
ZMM Page ~317
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Scenery Along The Green Springs Highway OR-66. The Road Continues Its Steeper Descent Down (As Seen At Left), To Schoolhouse Creek Valley.
…At Right You See How The Road Continues Down The Mountain Side. ….And Upper Left, Be Sure To Note The Snowcapped Mountain!
…The Road For The Previous 100 Miles Well Fits Author Robert Pirsig’s => “The Road Twists And Banks And Curlecues And Descends … ”
…But, In Addition, This ABOVE Scene Best Shows Author Robert Pirsig’s => “A Valley That Becomes More Exquisite As We [Rapidly] Descend”.
The ZMM Narrator Says =>
… “After a few minutes the road reaches a summit and then drops steeply into a valley that becomes more exquisite as we descend. I never thought I would call a valley that—exquisite—but there’s something about this whole coastal country so different from any other mountainous region in America that it brings out the word. Here, a little farther south, is where all our good wine comes from. The hills are somehow tucked and folded differently—exquisitely. The road twists and banks and curlecues and descends and we and the cycle smoothly roll with it, following it in a separate grace of our own, almost touching the waxen leaves of shrubs and overhanging boughs of trees. The firs and rocks of the higher country are behind us now and around us are soft hills and vines and purple and red flowers, fragrance mixed with woodsmoke up from the distant fog along the valley floor and from beyond that, unseen—a vague scent of ocean. . . . “
…..“How can I love all this so much and be insane? . . .
…..“I don’t believe it!
“The mythos. The mythos is insane. That’s what he believed. The mythos that says the forms of this world are real but the Quality of this world is unreal, that is insane!”
NOTE: Starting here, all along Rt-66 thru Ashland, Oregon plus 50 miles along Rt-99 Northwest of Ashland, using Google Street View , looked close for any evidence of Author Robert Pirsig’s “Vinyards”. The ONLY place was several miles Northwest of Ashland, as you will see in a forthcoming Google Street View, screen capture.
ZMM Page 317
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Scenery Along The Green Springs Highway OR-66. As The Road Continues Its Steep Descent Down To Schoolhouse Creek Valley, We Are Nearer To The Bottom. The Tight Curve At Right, Shows How Steep.
…As Is Shown In The Above GSV Strip Map, The Road Ahead, Will Go Along Emigrant Creek, And Then Goes By Emigrant Lake, Offering Nice Views. Then Rt-66 (And The ZMM Route), Travels NorthNorthWest, To Where It Eventually Turns Straight West, Go Over I-5 Pacific Highway, Continue Straight West Thru Ashland Oregon, And Turn Northwest Onto The Rogue Valley Highway, Rt-99.
ZMM Page 317
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Scenery Along The Rogue Valley Highway, Rt-99. At 1050 West Main Street, Ashland, Oregon =>
…A General View Of The Landscape, With Bear Creek Seen In Medium Distance At Right.
…Both Rt-99 and I-5, Run Northwest, In Bear Creek Valley For 28 Miles, All The Way From Ashland, Oregon To Gold Hill Oregon, At Which Point Bear Creek Becomes The Rogue River.
ZMM Page ~317
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Scenery Along The Rogue Valley Highway, Rt-99. A First View Of A Lush, Green, Exquisite, Beautiful Valley!
…Above Is Seen What Looks Like A Vineyard, Which Runs From The Highway, All The Way To Bear Creek, Which Is In The Lowest Area, This Side Of The Distant Mountains.
NOTE: Starting At The Previously Mentioned => A Steeper Descent Down To Schoolhouse Creek Valley, and continuing all along Rt-66 thru Ashland, Oregon plus 50 miles along Rt-99 Northwest of Ashland, Henry Gurr used Google Street View, to look close for any evidence of Author Robert Pirsig’s “Vinyards”. Here and the next photo, are the ONLY places where, what looks like a vineyard, is seen.
ZMM Page ~317
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