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Squally Hook Fragment

US 30

Location of Squally Hook Fragment (Yellow Path, Foreground)v.2020.07.11.007Google Earth Imagery Date: June 14, 2019

Steve Hart, Upper Columbia River Highway Survey

Squally Hook Fragment

700 feet, Mile 125.8, South side of freeway, Verified

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Squally Hook Fragmentv.2020.07.11.007Google Earth Imagery Date: June 14, 2019

July 11, 2020

This is a fragment that I have been wanting to check out for a long time, but it always sneaks up on me barreling down the freeway, and I always end up speeding past it. Fortunately, Steve was able to get out there and grab some photos recently!

This is most likely a fragment of the improved US 30 highway and not part of the original Route 2 alignment, though we'll need to confirm that... There could be older pavement under this wider, newer road.

Missed it again!Photo by A. F. Litt, June 20, 2014

Squally Hook FragmentPhoto by Steve Hart, May 30, 2020https://www.facebook.com/groups/483015922488601/permalink/728155054641352/

Past and Present Views Along the Columbia River Highway

Kirk J. Poole, June 1, 2020:

The width is 22' here. Looking to me like the 1952 road, which is just as desirable to mark and catalog.

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Kirk J. Poole, August 2, 2020

At Milepost 119 Eastbound; here is a nice stretch of 1951 highway laying right next to the freeway. Steve Hart documented this around a month ago. I saw this, so I pulled over and peeled off a few photographs. This highway was in use until around 1965, when I-80N was built alongside.

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"This was the main and modern highway for only 13-14 years."

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Squally Hook

Oregon State Archives: A 1940 Journey Across Oregon

From SQUALLY HOOK at 70.1 m. [West of Hwy. 730 Junction], Mount Hood is seen to the southwest, rising above the waters of the Columbia River.

http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/pages/exhibits/across/umatilla.html

Gilliam County 1, Goff, 1934Page 004 - Township 3 N. Range 18 E., Quinton, Goff, Columbia River, John Day RiverAtlas: Gilliam County 1934State: OregonMetsker Maps 1934Item # US1314740Historic Map Works.http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/1314740/Page+004+++Township+3+N++Range+18+E+++Quinton++Goff++Columbia+River++John+Day+River/Gilliam+County+1934/Oregon/

Links

Lewis R. Freeman, Down the Columbia: Reefs, Whirlpools, Storms and Freight Trains Complicate the Journey's Last Stretch - Sunset Magazine, November 1921

The link below leads to an interesting look at the Squally Hook Rapids on page 52

Sunset: The Magazine of the Pacific and of All the Far West, Volume 47

https://books.google.com/books?id=WkZEAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA52&lpg=RA4-PA52&dq=squally+hook&source=bl&ots=LllueYegyS&sig=ACfU3U1HqYPr-axkURnU--qEjkZU02IHJw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjNtuue48XqAhUFIDQIHQ_ADQ4Q6AEwCXoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=squally%20hook&f=false

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