Sunday, July 21, 2024: …Along A Stretch Of Road, Rt-86, For The Last ~3 Miles, We Travel Along A Stream That Nicely Fits The Clues Where The ZMM Narrator Stopped.
….Standing On A New Section Of Rt-86, On An Edge A Hill-Well-Above-A-Stream, We See-One-Of-The-Few-Oregon Places-With- Summertime Water =>
…..We Also See Where A Rockside Has Partly Blocked The Stream.
…This stream, called Powder River, gets larger as it flows Northeast, eventually into the Snake River.
The ZMM Narrator Says =>
… “Chris hollers that he has diarrhea again. .”
…. We ride until I see a stream below and pull off the road and stop. His face is full of embarrassment again but I tell him we’re in no hurry and get out a change of underwear and roll of toilet paper and bar of soap and tell him to wash his hands thoroughly and carefully after he’s done.”
….“I see Chris coming back up the hill now. His expression looks happy.
.... I like the word "gumption" because it’s so homely and so forlorn and so out of style it looks as if it needs a friend and isn’t likely to reject anyone who comes along. It’s an old Scottish word, once used a lot by pioneers, but which, like "kin," seems to have all but dropped out of use. I like it also because it describes exactly what happens to someone who connects with Quality. He gets filled with gumption.
.... The Greeks called it enthousiasmos, the root of "enthusiasm." which means literally "filled with theos," or God, or Quality. See how that fits? .
... A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit around dissipating and stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s gumption.
.... Chris arrives and says, "I’m feeling better now." .
... "Good," I say. We pack up the soap and toilet paper and put the towel and wet underwear where they won’t get other things damp and …”. (Cont.Next)
Land Slide Area, Rt-86, ~12 Miles WestNorthWest of => Richland, OR.
…NOTE1: A nearby sign explained the Sept 1984 landslide seen at right above the water. Note bare earth of the exposed "slide-downs".
….As you see, this huge landslide dirt pile blocked the stream. This same dirt pile also covered up the old Rt-86 here.
….NOTE2: It would take some study to see if those are volcanic rocks seen in the opposite canyon walls and capping the hilltop. If so, these are very likely part the Columbia River Basalts. According to my maps of these lava flows, we have been moving along inside the Southern edge of the lava fields and will soon leave them behind. But plenty of other forms of volcanic rock, will be seen in photos forthcoming.
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