Continued From Previous Photo. Near The “Prescribed Burn” Sign Of Previous Photo, These Flowers Were Spotted.

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Continued From Previous Photo. Near Flowers Of Previous Photo, These Flowers Came Into Camera Focus.

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Continued From Previous Photo. Near Flowers Of Previous Photo, These Flowers Came Into Camera Focus.

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Continued From Previous Photo. Along The Sumpter Valley Interpretive Trail, In Malheur National Forest.
…This Display Explains The History Of Railroads In This Area, 1800 To 1947.

NOTE1: The /\Above/\ Photo was found on Facebook WebPage, created by Ted Curphey, who says =” ·
…”The Sumpter Valley Railroad Interpretive Site is along Hwy 26 just west of the Dixie Summit between Austin Junction and Prairie City, OR” .
… Click Here To View His Twenty Six Very Good Photos (Plus Good Expert Explanation), Along The “Sumpter Valley Railroad Interpretive Trail,

NOTE2: Since the /\Above/\ Photo is much better than Henry Gurr’s own Photo DSC_0491, Mr. Curphey’s Photo is used /\Above/\.

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Continued From Previous Photo. A Closer View Of The Many Flowers, That Are Found Along This Path.
…At Lower Right Of Center, Be Sure To Look Closely, And See The Red Shoots Coming Up From Dandelion-Looking Green Plant.

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ATTENTION: Along The => “Sumpter Valley Railroad Interpretive Trail” There Are FAR MORE INTERESTING SIGHTS, Than David Mator & Henry Gurr Found.
…Pease See More, As Follows =>

…A) To View Click Here For Twenty Six Good Photos (Plus Good Expert Explanation), Along The “Sumpter Valley Railroad Interpretive Trail,
…B) To View Some Fifty Five Photos Along The “Sumpter Valley Railroad Interpretive Trail,” On The Side Panel Of Google Street View.
… AND, You Can ALSO Do Your Own Google Street ViewClickDrag To Explore On Your Own =>
… Click Here, To See ~55 Views Along This Interpretive Trail “ .

…B) To See Interesting A Map & Read About “The Malheur Valley Railway Commenced Construction From The United Pacific Main Line At Ontario, Oregon, To Vale, Oregon, In 1906. Rails Pushed West Of Vale In 1912 As Part Of The Oregon Eastern Railway, A Proposed Joint United Pacific-Southern Pacific Network Which Was To Extend From Ontario, Oregon To Eugene, Oregon And Klamath Falls, Oregon”. Click Here.
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END OF PHOTOS TAKEN ALONG THE =>
… “Sumpter Valley Railroad Interpretive Trail”, In Malheur National Forest.

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Having Passed Through The Really Tall Pines At The Highest Altitude Of Blue Mountain Pass, We Are On Our Way Down.

….“After a while you may find that the nibbles you get are more interesting than your original purpose of fixing the machine. When that happens you’ve reached a kind of point of arrival. Then you’re no longer strictly a motorcycle mechanic, you’re also a motorcycle scientist, and you’ve completely conquered the gumption trap of value rigidity. .. The road has come up into the pines again, but I see by the map that it won’t be for long.
… There are some resort billboards along the road and some kids beneath them, almost as if part of the advertisement, gathering pinecones. They wave and in doing so the littlest boy drops all his cones. “(Cont.Next)

Dixie Pass, ~9 miles Northeast of Prairie City, OR. Did you pass your ZMM readers awareness test here? … Here you should have seen for yourself that the Narrator has offered us a "scenery break" at the higher altitude, of yet another refreshing green tree, shady, and cool mountain pass.
….This of course, refreshes us and relieves our stress from the long Gumptionology. Just as the ZMM Narrator and Chris found a break in the travel, so also did Author Robert Pirsig as he was writing ZMM! These scenery breaks, can also help him refresh and relieves his stress from the long writing on boring Gumptionology!
….AND … Of course this is one of the major message of Gumptionology: Take quick breaks, no matter where your Quality track is taking you, especially after tired from long effort!!

The Below Repeats The Explanation From Photo Back At Dooley Mountain Summit.
….In this the above case (as well as implied several more times ahead), , the “Scenery Breaks” coincide with travel, from lower hot dry semi-desert, and climb the road up onto a higher mountain pass, and into the more enjoyable cool forests.
….Sometimes these “scenery breaks” are for gasoline or lunch in a town. The ZMM Reader will see that => Typically two and one half pages of Chautauqua between abrupt switch between The Chautauqua Discussion’s Main Topic and the Travel Narrative Scenery Breaks.

…SIDE NOTE: Here, As Is True For Practically Every Abrupt Switch Between The Chautauqua Discussion’s Main Topic And The Travel Narrative, We See An Especially Good Example Of => The "Metaphoric Bridge Connections" (MBC) Between The Chautauqua Lecture Passages And The Travel Narrative Descriptions!!
… Of course these “Connections”, are nearly always there (Between the Chautauqua Discussion’s Main Topic and the Travel Narrative), but this is an especially good example of this idea of "Metaphoric-Bridge-Connections"!
…. Here is the Same Link, that was given with Previous Photo of Unity, OR, where you can learn more about MBA, “Metaphoric Bridge Connection” Click Here. AFTER this page comes up, Do > Top > Edit > Find > … Metaphoric ..
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Although I Did Find This Now Closed Roadhouse, I Did Not Find Any Signs for The Narrator’s “Resort”.
….A Little Boy Dropping Pine Cones Is An Example Of NON “Value Rigidity”.

….[“ There are some resort billboards along the road and some kids beneath them, almost as if part of the advertisement, gathering pinecones. They wave and in doing so the littlest boy drops all his cones. “ ]
.... .“ I keep wanting to go back to that analogy of fishing for facts. I can just see somebody asking with great frustration, "Yes, but which facts do you fish for? There’s got to be more to it than that."
.... But the answer is that if you know which facts you’re fishing for you’re no longer fishing. You’ve caught them. I’m trying to think of a specific example. . . . All kinds of examples from cycle maintenance could be given, but the most striking example of value rigidity I can think of is the old South Indian Monkey Trap, which depends on value rigidity for its effectiveness.“ (Cont.Next)

Eight and a half miles Northeast of Prairie City, OR.

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Looking West Toward Prairie City, OR.
…A View of the Valley After Dixie Pass.
……In The Distance, The White Spot Is a Tourist Information Kiosk
………Which Is In the Commemorative Form of a Giant Oregon Trail Covered Wagon!

….“The trap consists of a hollowed-out coconut chained to a stake. The coconut has some rice inside which can be grabbed through a small hole. The hole is big enough so that the monkey’s hand can go in, but too small for his fist with rice in it to come out. The monkey reaches in and is suddenly trapped—by nothing more than his own value rigidity. He can’t revalue the rice. He cannot see that freedom without rice is more valuable than capture with it. The villagers are coming to get him and take him away. They’re coming closer . . . closer! . . . now! What general advice—not specific advice—but what general advice would you give the poor monkey in circumstances like this?“ (Cont.Next)

Five and one half miles Northeast of Prairie City, OR.
…In the /\ Above /\ Photo => The ZMM Route and Prairie City, continue West, in the direction of the medium distance, little round, brown, grass covered hill, with a topping of small trees sticking up.

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A Google Street View Of Very Nice Valley Scene About 2Miles East Of Prairie City, Oregon,
…It Is Restful To See the Distant Mountains Beyond The Green Irrigated Field, With Flowers & Sage In The Foreground!!
…Below The Mountains, You See A Line Of Dark Green Trees. This Marks The Location Of The John Day River.

2Miles East Of Prairie City, Oregon,

EXPLANATION:
…As stated in a previous photo => Henry Gurr viewed the entire 50 miles FROM Unity, Oregon TO Prairie City, Oregon, on Satellite View, AND then Google Street View, searching for his Camera Photo Location for the previous 8 photos.
...However, this method of searching was
...UNsuccessful :-((

But, WHEN, Henry Paused To Appreciate The /\Above/\ Mountains, He Suddenly Spotted The Flowers & Sage You See /\Above/\ ….
…And Then, Suddenly, Automatically, Spontaneously, Naturally, …. The Above Photo Was Created!! :-))
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About The John Day River, Which Is Followed By The ZMM Route For 60 Miles.
… The John Day River (For Wikipedia, Click Here). is a tributary of the Columbia River, approximately 284 miles (457 km) long, in northeastern Oregon in the United States. Undammed along its entire length, the river is the fourth longest free-flowing river in the contiguous United States.
… Fir A Satellite View Of Rt-26, Following Over 60 Miles Of The John Day River, Click Here.

About John Day (ca. 1770 – February 16, 1820), Who Was An American Hunter And Fur Trapper In The Pacific Northwest, Including Present-Day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Western Montana, And Southern British Columbia.
…John Day’s name is well-remembered, being attached to the John Day River[1] and its four branches in eastern Oregon, as well as the cities of John Day and Dayville in Grant County, Oregon, and a smaller John Day River and unincorporated community in Clatsop County, Oregon, the John Day Dam[2] on the Columbia River, and the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.
… The /\Above/\ Is From Wikipedia, Which Also Has Fantastic Story Of John Day’s Escape From Maltreatment By Native North Americans. Click Here.

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Houses in the Distance Signal Our Arrival at the Next Town.

….[The poor monkey can’t get his hand out of the coconut because holds the rice in his hand. His fist is now too large to pull out of the coconut! ]
…l “ …. but what general advice would you give the poor monkey in circumstances like this? “ ]
….“ “Well, I think you might say exactly what I have been saying about value rigidity, with perhaps a little extra urgency. There is a fact this monkey should know: if he opens his hand he’s free. But how is he going to discover this fact? By removing the value rigidity that rates rice above freedom. How is he going to do that? Well, he should somehow try to slow down deliberately and go over ground that he has been over before and see if things he thought were important really were important and, well, stop yanking and just stare at the coconut for a while. Before long he should get a nibble from a little fact wondering if he is interested in it. He should try to understand this fact not so much in terms of his big problem as for its own sake. That problem may not be as big as he thinks it is. That fact may not be as small as he thinks it is either. That’s about all the general information you can give him. “ (Cont.Next)

Two miles East of Prairie City, OR.

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What A Change This Town Scene Is From the Dry Desert!
….Here => Instead of a Mountain Pass, We Get Our Scenery Break at a Town.
….Chris Has Gumption => Immediately, Without Any Help, He Continues His Letter To His Mother

….“At Prairie City we’re out of the mountain forests again and into a dry-land town with a wide main street that looks right down through the center of the town and onto the prairie beyond it. We try one restaurant, but it’s closed. We go across the broad street and try another. The door’s open, we sit down and order malted milks. While waiting, I get the outline of the letter Chris was preparing for his mother and give it to him. To my surprise he works on it without many questions. I sit back in the booth and don’t disturb him. “ (Cont.Next)

Prairie City, OR.

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The Narrator Now Applies His Gumptionology Theory (And His Own Personal Abilities) to His Problem With Chris.

….“I keep feeling that the facts I’m fishing for concerning Chris are right in front of me too, but that some value rigidity of my own blocks me from seeing it. At times we seem to move in parallel rather than in combination, then at odd moments collide.
.... His troubles at home always begin when he is imitating me, trying to command others the way I command him, particularly his younger brother. Naturally the others aren’t having any of his commands, and he can’t see their right not to, and that’s when all hell breaks loose.
.... He can’t seem to care whether he’s popular with anyone else. He just wants to be popular with me. Not healthy at all, everything considered. It’s about time for him to begin the long process of breaking away. “ [ Like the monkey letting go of the rice? ] (Cont.Next)

Prairie City, OR.

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The Narrator Now Applies His Gumptionology To His Problem Of Recurring Bad Dreams, and Being Trapped “Behind the Glass Door” And Unable To “Reach” Chris.

….[For Chris] “That break should be as easy as possible, but it should be made. It’s time to set him on his own feet. The sooner the better.
.... And now, having thought all that, I don’t believe it anymore. I don’t know what the trouble is. That dream that keeps recurring haunts me because I can’t escape its meaning: I’m forever on the other side of a glass door from him which I don’t open. He wants me to open it and before I always turned away. But now there’s a new figure who prevents me. Strange.
.... After a while Chris says he’s tired of writing. We get up, I pay at the counter and we leave.“ (Cont.Next)

Prairie City, OR.

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On The Road, Straight Ahead, For the First Time, We See One of East Central Oregon’s Many Volcanic Cones!
….Gumption Traps Lecture Continues.

….“On the road now and talking about traps again.
.. The next one is important. It’s the internal gumption trap of ego. Ego isn’t entirely separate from value rigidity but one of the many causes of it.
.... If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened. Your ego isolates you from the Quality reality. When the facts show that you’ve just goofed, you’re not as likely to admit it. When false information makes you look good, you’re likely to believe it. On any mechanical repair job ego comes in for rough treatment. You’re always being fooled, you’re always making mistakes, and a mechanic who has a big ego to defend is at a terrific disadvantage.“ (Cont.Next)

Entrance to John Day, OR.

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Sunday, July 21, 2024: …Continuing Along US-26, One Hour Later: The Kam Wah Chung Interpretive Center, John Day, Oregon.
…This Is A Somewhat Temporary Building, While A New, Larger, And More Grand Building Is Being Constructed.

Interpretive Center, John Day, Oregon.

NOTE1: This is now State Of Oregon State Park, called the Kam Wah Chung State Heritage Site.
… Click Here For Photos & History Of This Oregon State Park, And A General Overview Of The Park.

NOTE2: The NEXT four photos show displays inside this building.

NOTE: In the /\Above/\ Photo, the brown sky is most likely due to smoke from forest fires! Examples of this forest fire smoke was shown at previous phoros back at Dooley Mountain Pass.

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Sunday, July 21, 2024: …A Display Inside The Kam Wah Chung Interpretive Center Building.

Chung Interpretive Center, John Day, Oregon.

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A Second Display Inside The Kam Wah Chung Interpretive Center Building.

Cung Interpretive Center, John Day, Oregon.

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A Third Display Inside The Kam Wah Chung Interpretive Center Building.

Chung Interpretive Center, John Day, Oregon.

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