A. F. Litt, July 18, 2020

I changed the name from Valley Creek Fragment to Supply Creek Fragment today after learning that the creek that flows alongside the old highway here is not actually Valley Creek! This will also help to separate it from the previous Valley Creek Lane segment.

A. F. Litt, March 9, 2020

The old route follows the utility poles off into the woods... It's been logged since I've been past there. Unfortunately, this was one of the last few sections of the highway between Astoria and Pendleton that I did not get to explore before the hiatus in 2015. A shame that I missed getting any photos while the trees were still up.

Several years back, someone offered to send me some photos, but that got lost in the shuffle, not sure if on my end or theirs.

So, if anyone happens to have some photos of this stretch before it was logged off, I'd love to see them and maybe post them here!

June 18, 2020

For years, one of the causes of my sometimes years long backlog between the field work and posting to the site was the editing process on my photos. I'd run them through Adobe Lightroom, geotag them, watermark them, and only then would I add them to the website. Back in my heydays on the field work, though, I was spending a lot more time from 2013 - 2015 taking new photos and videos and never getting around to editing them or posting them.

At this point, a half-decade later, on the back end of essentially rebuilding the website from scratch, I am realizing that it is much more important to get the content to the site quickly, and backed up well, than it is to hem and haw over the color balance on a bunch of photos that are taken primarily for survey rather than artistic purposes.

Plus, while the amount of time I'll be spending in the field on the old highway will be much less than it was back in the day, other projects and jobs will be taking precedence moving forward. True, back then I also was part time on this work, with other projects taking up huge chunks of time here and there, but moving ahead my available time for highway photo editing will be even less! From here on, I want to be diving more into academic research and, hopefully, writing a book on all of this jumbled mess, with the part time hours I'll have available for the Columbia River Highway!

So, while these photos were taken back in April, I did have the site rebuild to finish before focusing on new content, but from here on forward, I'd like to get from the field to the website within a day or two. I hope!

Culvert

A. F. Litt, July 18, 2020

Right around here was an old culvert that I shot while walking back to the truck. I was shooting video heading westbound, and did capture it on there. I am not sure if my laptop is up to editing that video, but I'll get it up, along with some screen caps from it, as soon as I can.

Well

A well built on the old highway in the 1980s, if I remember right... I think I caught a date in the concrete foundation on the forthcoming video from this segment.

New Road

A. F. Litt, July 18, 2020

At this point, the original highway continued off to cross Supply Creek, while a newer road, built over the old, turns north to meet modern US 30. During the winter, it might be worth digging around in the brush here to find old grading and pavement, but even by April, it was too overgrown this year.

Supply Creek Bridge

A. F. Litt, July 18, 2020

The alignment of the west and east fragments suggest a bridge site to the south of the modern highway. Signs of it are probably long gone, but after Steve's recent discovery out in Lang Canyon on the Upper Highway, it might be one of the few remaining locations left with undiscovered bridge remains!

Again, already by April this year, it was far too overgrown to get back in there. This will be winter work. Until then, there might be a mention of what to look for in the early OHC reports.

Supply Creek Eastern Fragment

Below, the utility lines emerge from the trees at the end of the fragment...

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